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SUBMITTER: Simner J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6934473 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Simner Julia J Hughes James E A JEA Sagiv Noam N
Scientific reports 20191227 1
Objectum-sexuality (OS) is a sexual orientation which has received little attention in the academic literature. Individuals who identify as OS experience emotional, romantic and/or sexual feelings towards inanimate objects (e.g. a bridge, a statue). We tested 34 OS individuals and 88 controls, and provide the first empirical evidence that OS is linked to two separate neurodevelopmental traits - autism and synaesthesia. We show that OS individuals possess significantly higher rates of diagnosed a ...[more]