PATHOLOGICAL MANNEQUINS

MANNEQUIN AS A FETISH

The desease where a person is pathologically attracted to dolls, statues or mannequins is called Agalmatophilia.  The attraction may include a desire for actual sexual contact with the object, a fantasy of having sexual (or non-sexual) encounters with an animate or inanimate instance of the preferred object, the act of watching encounters between such objects, or sexual pleasure gained from thoughts of being transformed or transforming another into the preferred object. 

  

 

Sexualised life-size dolls have extensively featured in the work of famous art photographers: 

        Hans Bellmer            Katan Amano      Morton Bartlett                 Ryoichi Yoshida

FEAR OF MANNEQUINS

Pediophobia is the fear of dolls or humanoid figures.  It is a phobia that causes anxiety disorders and can be associated with mannequins and dolls that range from old-fashioned china dolls and porcelain dolls to dolls that talk and move.

Left untreated, pediophobia can affect and impact on a person's life in quite major and sometimes devastating ways.  Sometimes, this fear can assume such overwhelming proportions that it seriously interferes with the individual's ability to function in a normal way.  A person fearful of store mannequins, may very well avoid shops selling clothing altogether.