plushophilia
{{Short description|Stuffed toy animal fetishism}}
File:Stoya models with plush toy, Downtown Los Angeles 2006.jpg
Plushophilia (from "plushie" and "-philia") is a paraphilia involving stuffed toy animals. Many plushophiles modify their plushies with a hole or holes reminiscent of those found in sex toys, to allow them to sexually interact with their plushies. Plushophiles are sometimes called plushies, although this term (plushies) can also refer to non-sexual stuffed toy animal enthusiasts, and to stuffed toy animals in general.{{Citation|last = Hill|first = Dave|title = Cuddle Time|newspaper = Salon.com|date = 2000-06-19|url = http://archive.salon.com/sex/feature/2000/06/19/plushies/|access-date = 2007-08-27|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080328174740/http://archive.salon.com/sex/feature/2000/06/19/plushies/|archive-date = 2008-03-28|url-status = dead}}{{cite news |last=Kelleher |first=Kathleen |date=2001-06-04 |title=Once Seen as Taboos, Sexual Fetishes Are Gaining Acceptance |work=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-jun-04-cl-6207-story.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=2010-05-22}} It is a form of object sexuality.
Furry fandom
Plushophilia is sometimes seen as associated with the furry fandom, due in part to a 2001 article by Vanity Fair that linked various members of the furry community with plushophilia.{{cite web |author=Malisow |first=Craig |date=2003-12-18 |title=Wild Kingdom |url=http://www.houstonpress.com/2003-12-18/news/wild-kingdom/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140831172734/http://www.houstonpress.com/2003-12-18/news/wild-kingdom/ |archive-date=Aug 31, 2014 |access-date=2013-04-01 |publisher=Houston Press}}{{cite web |last=O'connor |first=Siobhàn |title=Montreal's furries and furverts defend their unusual lifestyle |url=http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/2001/041201/cover.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020830043412/http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/2001/041201/cover.html |archive-date=August 30, 2002 |access-date=November 15, 2009 |website=Montreal Mirror}}{{cite web |last=Kates |first=Tasha |url=http://citypaper.net/articles/2004-07-08/cb2.shtml |title=Animal Magnetism |publisher=Citypaper.net |access-date=2013-04-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150713170850/http://citypaper.net/articles/2004-07-08/cb2.shtml |archive-date=2015-07-13 }}{{Citation
| last = Meinzer
| first = Melissa
| title = Animal Passions
| newspaper = Pittsburgh City Paper
| date = 2006-06-29
| url = http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A28606
| access-date = 2007-08-27
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070827170632/http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A28606
| archive-date = 2007-08-27
| url-status = dead
{{Citation
| last = Gurley
| first = George
| title = Pleasures of the Fur
| newspaper = Vanity Fair
| date = March 2001
| url = http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2001/03/furries200103}}
A 1998 survey of 360 members of the furry community suggested less than one percent (that is, fewer than four people) attested to being plushophiles.{{cite web |last=Rust |first=David J. |date=2002-08-01 |title=The Darken Hollow - Thoughts - Furry Sociology |url=http://www.visi.com/~phantos/furrysoc.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061015191107/http://www.visi.com/~phantos/furrysoc.html |archive-date=2006-10-15 |access-date=2013-04-01 |publisher=Visi.com}}
Pornography and sexual activity involving animal anthropomorphism (including plushophilia and paraphilias involving fursuits and cartoon animals) is known in the furry fandom community as "yiff" (and sexual acts as "yiffing").{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8355287.stm | work=BBC News | title=Who are the furries? | date=2009-11-13 | access-date=2010-05-22}}
{{anchor|Autoplushophilia}}
Being in another form
Anne Lawrence has proposed that sexual arousal that depends upon imagining one's self as plush or "representations of anthropomorphic animal characters in animated cartoons" be termed autoplushophilia.Lawrence, A. A. (2009). Erotic target location errors: An under appreciated paraphilic dimension. The Journal of Sex Research, 46, 194-215. Paraphilic interests that involve being in another form have been referred to as erotic target location errors.
See also
- {{section link|Animal roleplay|Erotic scenarios}}
- Fur fetishism
References
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External links
- "[http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/News:Museum_of_Sex_exhibits_modified_plush_toys Museum of Sex Exhibits Modified Plush Toys]" at WikiFur
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