Mechanophilia
Mechaphilia [1] or Mechanophilia, a paraphilia describing a sexual attraction to machines such as bicycles, [2] motor vehicles, [3] helicopters, [4] and airplanes. [5] It is treated as a crime in some nations with perpetrators being placed on a sex offenders’ register after prosecution.[6] Motorcycles are often portrayed as sexualized fetish objects to those that desire them. [7] Pleasures derived from the physio-pleasures involved, e.g. tactile sensations of using the controls, the colors, the smells etc. [8]
Art, Culture and Design
Mechanophilia has been used to describe important works of the early Modernists such as the 1922 FEKS "Eccentric Manifesto" [4] of Leonid Trauberg, Sergei Yutkevich, Grigori Kozintsev and others [9][10], a modernist avant garde movement that spanned Russian futurism and constructivism. The term has entered into the realms of science fiction and popular fiction. [11]
Scientifically, in 'Biophilia, The Human Bond with Other Species', Edward O. Wilson is quoted describing mechanophilia, the love of machines, as "a special case of biophilia"[12], whereas psychologists such as Erich Fromm would see it as a form of necrophilia[13] Designers such as Francis Picabia and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti have been said to exploited the sexual attraction of automobiles. [14]
Culturally, critics have described it as an "all pervading" within contemporary Western society and that is seems to overwhelm our society and all too often our better judgement". [15] Although not all such uses are sexual in intent, the terms are also used for specifically erotogenic fixation on machinery [16] and taken to its extreme in hard core pornography as "fucking machines". [5][17] These involved mainly women being sexually penetrated by machines for male consumption [18] which are seen as being the limits of current sexual biopolitics [19] and awarded prizes at by international arts groups. [6]
Authors have drawn a connections between mechanophilia and masculine militarisation, citing the works of animator Yasuo Ōtsuka and Studio Ghibli.[20]
In Frank Zappa's rock opera, Joe's Garage, the titular character is claimed to be an "appliance fetishist" by the Church of Appliantology and has a homosexual relationship with an industrial vacuum cleaner.
Documentaries
My Car is my Lover (2008) [7]
See also
Biography
- 'Mechaphilia: Sexual Attraction to Machines', Schlessinger. Please Press, 2003.
- 'Biophilia, The Human Bond with Other Species', Harvard University Press, 1984. (P. 116)
- 'Forensic and Medico-Legal Aspects of Sexual Crimes and Unusual Sexual Practices', Anil Aggrawal. CRC Press; 2008. ISBN: 1420043080 (P. 376)
- 'The Future of Fucking Cyberschtup Pioneers Test-drive High-tech Sex Machines', Jessica Handley. Hustler, August 2000. [21]
References
- ↑ Weirdly Beloved: Tales of Strange Bedfellows, Odd Couplings, and Love Gone Bad. Cynthia Ceilán, The Lyons Press, 2008. ISBN 1599214032
- ↑ Man who had Sex with Bike in Court [1]
- ↑ Man who's had sex with 1000 cars gives new meaning to auto-erotic. [2]
- ↑ Man admits having sex with 1,000 cars [3]
- ↑ Objects of special devotion: fetishism in popular culture, Ray Broadus Browne. Popular Press, 1982. ISBN: 087972191X
- ↑ Sex crimes and paraphilia, Eric W. Hickey. Prentice Hall, 2005. ISBN: 0131703501. P. 91
- ↑ Thompson, Steven L. The Arts of the Motorcycle: Biology, Culture, and Aesthetics in Technological Choice. Technology and Culture - Volume 41, Number 1, January 2000, pp. 99-115
- ↑ Design and emotion: the experience of everyday things, Volume 2002 By Deana McDonagh, Paul Hekkert, Jeroen van Erp, Diane. GyiCRC Press, 2003. ISBN: 041530363X
- ↑ A Shostakovich companion by Michael Mishra. Praeger 2008 ISBN: 031330503X P. 446
- ↑ Modernism: an anthology of sources and documents By Vassiliki Kolocotroni, Jane Goldman, Olga Taxidou. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- ↑ Unleashing the Strange: Twenty-First Century Science Fiction Literature, Damien Broderick. Borgo Press, 2009. ISBN: 1434457230
- ↑ Animal subjects: an ethical reader in a posthuman world, Jodey Castricano. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008. ISBN: 0889205124
- ↑ Environmental Problem Solving: Psychosocial Barriers to Adaptive Change By Alan Miller. Springer, 2003. ISBN: 0387402977
- ↑ Design and Emotion, Deana McDonagh. CRC Press, 2003. ISBN: 041530363X
- ↑ Texts on type: critical writings on typography By Steven Heller, Philip B. Meggs Allworth Press, 2001. ISBN: 1581150822
- ↑ Wired: Schreber as Machine, Technophobe, and Virtualist. Mark S. Roberts, Vol. 40, No. 3, Experimental Sound & Radio (Autumn, 1996), pp. 31-46, The MIT Press
- ↑ The Postmodern Presence: Readings on Postmodernism in American Culture and Society, Arthur Asa Berger. AltaMira Press, 1998. ISBN: 076198980
- ↑ The Naked Truth: Internet Eroticism, M Bonik, A Schaale. Institute of Network Culture, 2005. ISBN: 978-90-78146-03-2
- ↑ Sampling (hetero)sexuality: diva-ness and discipline in electronic dance music, Susana Loza. Popular Music (2001), 20:3:349-357 Cambridge University Press, 2001
- ↑ The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation By Thomas Lamarre
- ↑ Presence and Sexuality, Matthew Lombard, Matthew T. Jones. Temple University, 2004.
