Plushophilia

Plushophilia (from "plushie" and "-philia") is a paraphilia involving stuffed animals. Plushophiles are sometimes called plushies, although this term (plushies) can also refer to non-sexual stuffed animal enthusiasts, and to stuffed animals in general.[1][2]

Plushophilia is sometimes assumed to be a practice common within furry fandom, due in part to a 2001 article by Vanity Fair that linked various members of the furry community with plushophilia.[3][4][5][6][7] 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.[8]

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").[6][9]

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.[10] Paraphilic interests that involve being in another form have been referred to as erotic target location errors.

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References

  1. ↑ Hill, Dave (2000-06-19), "Cuddle Time", Salon.com
  2. ↑ Kelleher, Kathleen (2001-06-04). "Once Seen as Taboos, Sexual Fetishes Are Gaining Acceptance". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2010-05-22.
  3. ↑ Craig Malisow (2003-12-18). "Wild Kingdom". Houston Press. Retrieved 2013-04-01.
  4. ↑ http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/2001/041201/cover.html[]
  5. ↑ Kates, Tasha. "Animal Magnetism". Citypaper.net. Retrieved 2013-04-01.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Meinzer, Melissa (2006-06-29), "Animal Passions", Pittsburgh City Paper
  7. ↑ Gurley, George (March 2001), "Pleasures of the Fur", Vanity Fair
  8. ↑ "The Darken Hollow - Thoughts - Furry Sociology". Visi.com. 2002-08-01. Retrieved 2013-04-01.
  9. ↑ "Who are the furries?". BBC News. 2009-11-13. Retrieved 2010-05-22.
  10. ↑ Lawrence, A. A. (2009). Erotic target location errors: An under appreciated paraphilic dimension. The Journal of Sex Research, 46, 194-215.

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