![]() All the elements of dating are involved in a mechanophiliac relationship from courting, to the first date and even the first kiss and sexual encounter…When the hospitals get odd cases like a man being treated on his penis after getting it “stuck” in a vacuum cleaner or a woman who has injured herself using a electric mixing spoon for masturbation doctors usually chalk it up to the fetish. There is a niche of porn called ‘machine porn’ where women and men are involved in erotic acts with machines that are made for the purpose of sex…You can probably find a mechanophiliac using sex toys and machines on their partners or on themselves during sex…On the extreme end mechanophiliacs NEED the presence of their object to reach sexual gratification or ONLY the presence of their object will bring them sexual gratification and another person is not able to do so…A mechanophiliac will have a relationship with their machine object as a person would with another person. While others are fascinated with the effect it produces for example the noise and warmth that comes off of a drying machine. “Some mechanophiliacs enjoy the engineering aspect of their object, how it works, moves and is built. In one of the few articles written on mechanophilia, Symone Nelson appears to speculate about the psychological reasons for engaging in such paraphilic behaviour but claim there is no single reason as to why someone becomes a mechanophile. There would also appear to be some structural and psychological overlap with technosexuality/robot fetishism and objectum sexuality (i.e., having sexual and/or romantic relationships with inanimate objects) that I examined in previous blogs. Steven Thompson in the journal "Technology and Culture" argued that motorcycles are often portrayed as sexualized fetish objects by their owners. I briefly mentioned mechanophilia in a previous blog on the relationship between sex and cars, but the paraphilia not only includes individuals who derive sexual pleasure and arousal from cars (such as the American man Edward Smith who has who has had sex with over a 1000 cars), but also to bicycles (such as the British man Robert Stewart who ended up in court after being caught having sex with a bicycle), and aeroplanes and helicopters (according to Ray Broadus Browne in his 1982 book Objects of Special Devotion: Fetishism in Popular Culture). Arachnophilia is designed to learn as much as possible from you: Arachnophilia's menus and toolbars are programmable. Sexual relations between living organisms and machines.” Arachnophilia is an advanced Web site development environment, as well as a general programming tool. Generally intended to be launched outdoors, the artist’s website provides interested participants with instructions for constructing their own Aerocene sculptures in the spirit of “do-it-together.” Contained within The Shed, the Aerocene installation is a reminder of the inequities across the world at large, some nations more guilty than others for the harmful and unsustainable practices that have led to the negative impacts of climate change that affect many, especially the most vulnerable populations.“The love or sexual attraction to computers, cars, robots or androids, washing machines and other domestic appliances, lawn mowers and other mechanised gardening equipment. The central mission of this practice is to find communal pathways towards ethical collaborations with the environment and the atmosphere, free from carbon emissions. Saraceno embarked on collaborations with interdisciplinary artistic communities to create similar airborne structures from recycled plastic bags in 2007 when he started the Museo Aero Solar, a flying museum. This patchwork of plastic bags sourced from around the globe but familiar to all underscores the ubiquitous and pernicious use of these indestructible bags. Visitors enter a colorful space and are surrounded by the logos of international brands emblazoned across plastic bags. From Arachnophobia to Arachnophilia unfolds in five scenes, revealing a spider attached by a filament to its web a spider and its web in a. Another gallery at The Shed is filled with an inflated installation of recycled plastic bags repurposed into a giant balloon, an Aerocene sculpture. This hand-cut, hand-bound artist edition for the MoMA Library Council is intended to draw attention to spiders, their webs, and our shared environment through the participatory form of the pop-up book. ![]()
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