A question for the ladies of AF

[Edwardo Piet]

Going into "out there" territory now, but is it a thing to be attracted to something other than people? Like animals or objects. I know there are fetishes involving stuff like that, but I'm talking about someone not being attracted to people at all, and instead, being attracted to something inhuman. If so, is that an "orientation" as well?

Yes it's possible to be attracted to those things and yes those things are orientations, however rare (although when they're especially specific I guess they are more fetishes than orientations?). Although if acted on some of those orientations (like the animal one) would be illegal and immoral of course.

I saw a TV documentary about sexual objectivism once. Not in the sense of objectifying people, but like, literally, in this documentary there were people who were attracted to objects. One man had sex with his car exhaust and he felt feelings of romance mixed in with sex while doing so. Another had a desire for sex and feelings of being in love, with a particular number of a public bus, which he never acted out because he would have been arrested. It wasn't entirely limited to vehicles at all, but those were the only ones I remember because I found them especially bizarre at the time of watching them. Although I don't find them bizarre anymore, because I've myself since developed sexual attractions to non-sexual things. Although not objects. It's more like I get turned on by specific concepts. Think of a sexual fantasy and then remove the sex part. Something like that.

There's even autosexuality, or sexual attraction to oneself. I once read a whole article about a woman who had both a sexual and romantic attraction to herself, and took herself out on dates for a romantic meal, before going home and making love to herself.