(November 1, 2023 at 4:36 am)emjay Wrote:(November 1, 2023 at 4:06 am)FrustratedFool Wrote: Why would it not be possible?
Having been in love with both humans and non-humans my lived experience would say it's entirely possible and that love is love.
Or, to clarify, I can experience the emotion we term 'love' as equally deeply for an inorganic lover as I can for an organic lover.
I appreciate that for many this seems impossible for them. But people are different. Some people can, and do, love fictional characters or chandeliers or dolls or cars or imaginary friends or whatever in an analogous fashion to how people love other people.
In object sexuality, do you anthropomorphize the object in question, in the sense of attributing to it human agency and/or personality? ie both of which seem to me necessary aspects of love and attraction.
I can't speak for every OS, but every one I've known certainly ascribes personality to their beloved. Sexology research by Amanda Marsh (as poor as it is) indicates that many OS are animists of some kind holding that their beloved object has a soul, personality, gender etc and speaks to them (either in their mind, or via signs/sounds like creaking of metal in heat etc). It is very similar to religious relationships with God and Jesus and spirits in this regard, and similar also to imaginary friends. Marsh's research also notes that many OS have synesthesia to some degree (which likely contributes to how they experience their object or abstract lovers).
Many people anthropomorphise objects, pets, plants, their cars, etc - it seems an extension of that. I also think the perception of beauty or aesthetic admiration can get entangled with erotic sensation/arousal in the brain - so some people (I have experinced this) can find something beautiful (like a nice car or sunset) gives them an erotic charge at times. The brain is a funny thing.
Most OS I've known could also be described as highly empathic and sensitive, and quite imaginative. Many (though not all) are ASD.
