Objectum

Objectum, also known as Objectum Sexuality, Objectum Romanticisum, OS/OR, and Pygmaliosexual is a label for folks who experience attraction to objects.
Wether it's romatic, sexual, familial, platonic, etc, it all counts. The sister term to objectum is POSIC, but these two terms are different and are NOT the same thing.
This is not inherently an exclusively LGBTQ+ experience, and shouldn't really be considered part of LGBTQ, mainly due to discourse and controversy.

Etymology

From the Latin word obiectum/objectum, being coined by the late Eija-Ritta Eklof Berliner-Mauer some time in the early 70's.

Terminology

Often the objects of attraction for objectum folk are called by the term "beloved objects", some may be "private objects" which is a term reffering to an object one owns,
some though are reffered to as "public objects" which can be things such as buildings or even cities. There are many different types of objectum and general objectum terms and labels,
essentially being infinite and being about basically everything as long as it isn't human or an animal. Some may only be attracted to one type or a few types of objects, concepts, ect.
While others may be attracted to every type, both of them being able to be called by the umbrella term varietum which isn't strictly objectum, but many prefer to just use objectum for simplicity.
Although varietum is not exclusively an objectum term, it's mainly used by objectums and in objectum spaces.

History

Attraction to objects has been found in things such as mythology, folklore, and in the lives of actual people for centuries. In 2008, Erika Eiffel and Oliver Arndt founded Objectum Internationale,
a well known organization dedicated to help provide proper education of objectum to folks who are questioning if they're objectum, and to the general public.
Many of their members over the years have appeared in different types of media such as doccumentaries, the news, interviews, TV shows, journalistic publications, and more likely for years to come.
Unfourtunately they have had to pull funding many many times due to wilfully harmful, ignorant, and discriminatory representation of objectum and objectum folks within these medias.

Objectum V.S. Paraphilias (THESE ARE NOT THE SAME AS OBJECTUM)

Objectum is different from paraphilic disorders, as these disorders do not imply personal relationships between whatever it may be and the person who has the disorder(s),
these disorders are also essentially strictly sexual and fetishization. Many different factors go into differentiating if one has a paraphilic disorder, or are objectum including personal beliefs,
the actual dynamics of ones attraction/relationship, ones personal experience, ect. A proper example of this is research by the sexologist Amy Marsh's whose site is in the links below,
also it might help to ask around in objectum spaces and any possible friends, to get the differences from different personal perspectives before deciding on your own.

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Page credits

Page creation: Augie

Links/References

Rainbowpedia Wiktionary MOGAI Wiki Amy Marsh's website