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'''Objectum Sexuality, '''also known as '''Objectum''', '''Objectum Romanticism (OS/OR), or Pygmaliosexual''', is the attraction to inanimate objects. This attraction can be [[Sexual Attraction|sexual]], [[Romantic Attraction|romantic]], or both, it can also be a form of [[Tertiary Attraction|tertiary attraction]]. The objects that an objectum (or 'OS') individual is attracted to are often called "beloved objects", these objects often have names and personalities to the objectum person. They may go on dates or do other intimate acts with their beloved object.
Beloved objects can be "private objects", meaning objects that one owns, which can include: toys, cars/trucks, plants, musical instruments, articles of clothing, etc. They can also be "public objects", meaning objects that are something public or in a public space, which can include: buildings, bridges, machines, statues, fences, water, amusement park rides, etc. Objects do not have to be tangible and can also include things such as logos, letters, or concepts. Some objectum
Some objectum
== Paraphillia vs Objectum ==
Objectum sexuality is different from a sexual paraphilia, as a paraphilia does not imply a devoted personal relationship, feeling mutual and reciprocal attraction, and usually does not include animistic beliefs. Dr. Amy Marsh, a sexologist who has studied OS
The objectum community generally finds the term "objectophillia" to be very misinforming towards their attraction, as the term implies that they do not have a healthy bond, and implies that their attraction is disordered. While having a paraphillia should ''not'' be villanized, it is harmful to spread the ideology that being objectum is a paraphillia; this spreads misinformation on what disordered attraction is, and groups together experiences it should not.
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== History ==
Relationships and orientations that can be described as objectum are found throughout human history in mythology, folklore, and the lives of real
The term "objectum sexuality" was coined by Eija-Riitta Eklöf and two other objectum-sexuals in the early 1970's. In 2008, Erika Eiffel and Oliver Arndt founded Objectum Internationale<ref>http://objectum-sexuality.org/</ref>, an organization dedicated to providing education about the orientation both to
Objectum sexuality saw a surge of interest and recognition on Tumblr in the 2010's, independent from the community formed around Objectum Internationale.
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The alternative conceptum flag was coined on April 23rd of 2020 by Mod Jupiter on the Tumblr account known as forgotten-mogai. They merged the bubble with the circle on the objectum flag (in order to represent thoughts), and used the original colors of the flag.
The panjectum flag was coined on November 15th of 2020 by Tumblr user gender-horderz. The colors of the flag are a slightly more pastel reverse pan pride flag to show a more tender love that comes with being objectum and to show how objectum
The soundrum/musica- flag was coined by Tumblr user Plurgai on April 18th of 2020. It has no confirmed meaning.
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The botanosexual flag was coined by beyond-mogai-pride-flags on June 14th of 2018. The botanisexual and botaniromantic flags were coined by Tumblr user beyond-mogai-pride-flags on June 16th of 2018. Other flags they made for botani- attraction can be found [https://beyond-mogai-pride-flags.tumblr.com/post/174959818185/botani-pride-flags here]. None of the flags have any confirmed meaning.
The flora- flag was coined by Tumblr user gender-horderz on May 26th of 2020. Pink represents the tender love (platonic or otherwise) that someone may feel for a plant or nature, light green represents the life and growing of nature, and light yellow represents the happiness objectum folks feel when with their partners. The flower is there to further drive the idea of nature into the pride flag, and is white to show the purity in objectum and similar identifying
The plushum flag was coined by an anonymous and was posted through the Tumblr account xeno-aligned on March 20<sup>th</sup> of 2019. The colors had no confirmed meaning.
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