Agalmatophilia

Agalmatophilia (from Ancient Greek ἄγαλμα (ágalma) 'statue' and φιλία (philía) 'love') is a paraphilia involving sexual attraction to a statue, doll, mannequin, or other similar figurative object.

Depending on the object of their desire, agalmatophiles can exhibit pygmalionism, the love for an object of one's own creation, named after the myth of Pygmalion, where a man falls in love with a statue he made of his ideal woman.

[1] English poet Edmund Spenser wrote of sexual pygmalionism in some of his works.

[2] Agalmatophilia was described in late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century legal medicine.

[3][clarification needed] In 1977, a gardener was recorded to have fallen in love with a statue of the Venus de Milo, and was discovered attempting coitus with it.