Is it normal to be attracted to such things?

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Ok, I'm not attracted or anyone or anything sexually. I do, however, develop often strong crushes on many people, characters, even objects, though the latter is more rare. I have a crush on my best friend but don't talk to her much since she moved away. I usually get attracted to people who are friendly to me, but it can easily be at random. I have a crush on several people online, though two are in a relationship with one another.
Other things are characters. I am attracted to mechanical voices, so I have a crush on GLaDOS (Portal 2). Even the google translate voice. I mostly crush on characters who are or look mechanical and/or are shy, since it reminds me of myself, and/or have pointed teeth, and/or are loners. Male, female and other, but mostly female.
Then I also have a crush on my stuffed animal, some artwork (paintings of scenery, mostly), store mannequins (only some), my ex's dog, etc. IIN?

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Avant-Garde

9 years ago

They say that Glados looks like an upside-down woman in bondage. O_o

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  9 years ago
  
  I never noticed this before...but I doubt I'll be unseeing that anytime soon. I'm not interested in females in bondage anyway, it's just GLaDOS' voice that I am attracted to, and her sarcastic personality. "The test results are in. You are a horrible person, that's what it says, a horrible person. We weren't even testing for that."
  
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squirrelgirl

9 years ago

It's normal. I have a crush on GLaDOS myself. I love all the fanart that portrays her as a yellow-eyed fembot with a white and black bob cut.

I suggest you look up Clarence from Penumbra: Black Plague. He's pretty similar in personality to GLaDOS, though his voice is more of an acquired taste (it's very gravelly-sounding, like he's been smoking for 30 years).

And I also sometimes develop crushes on stuffed animals/plush toys too, especially when I develop personalities for them.

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  9 years ago
  
  Thanks, I'm not alone. I prefer the way GLaDOS is in the game, I've seen fanart of humanized and fembot GLaDOS.
  
  I just looked up Clarence, it's a calming voice that somehow sounds as if Cicero from Skyrim and Deadpool merged and then smoked for a decade. I'm slightly attracted to it, whoops, but not nearly as much as some others. In this case, it's more like I'd want to have a voice like that.
  
  The stuffed animal thing was something I was worried about, but I'm glad you share it. I've yet to meet people who were attracted to those other things, though.
  
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  - squirrelgirl
    
    9 years ago
    
    Hey, it's cool - the GLaDOS Fantasy Model (tm) comes in many forms to suit the needs of her, uh, suitors. (sorry, couldn't resist phrasing it like that)
    
    I'm glad you like Clarence too. To borrow his words, he is something of a guardian angel. ;)
    
    No need to worry about the stuffed animal thing; there's even a term for it - plushophilia. I spend a lot of time looking at websites and articles about adults who still love stuffed animals (whether platonically or otherwise), and let me tell you, it's a lot more common than most people realize.
    
    The mannequin one isn't that uncommon, I've heard of it several times before. It's even been mentioned on TV (I swear I've seen a My Crazy Obsession episode where a man's mannequin collection took up his entire house) It has a term too: algamatophilia.
    
    People with zoophilia often develop romantic relationships with animals, so I've heard of that one too. It's actually the most common one out of the ones you listed, albeit the most taboo as well.
    
    Pretty much the only one of your attractions that I haven't heard of before is the attraction to paintings of scenery. However, TV Tropes has an entry called "Scenery Porn" which lists movies that contain lush scenery, so something tells me they didn't title it that for nothing.
    
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    - Anonymous Post Author
      
      9 years ago
      
      I'm glad you exist, I was really beginning to think there was something horribly wrong with me. (I appreciate that suit and suitors thing, by the way. Wordplay and puns are great, and that's not sarcasm).
      
      Clarence is sure something. I looked into the game more and got interested in playing it, but I'll have it bookmarked until I can get a PC.
      
      I have to admit that I often talk to my stuffed animal at night, it's a little pathetic most likely, but I always had as a child...never grew out of it (I'm 18, still young, but if it ever goes away it'll take an extremely long time).
      
      A whole house of mannequins...what if they all began moving at night like something out of Five Nights at Freddy's? That seems extremely unsettling, I actually can't stand dozens of mannequins in one place. Just a couple every so often. The store downstairs used to have dozens, and you'd swear a few blinked sometimes.
      
      As my crushes and attraction lack the sexual aspect of them (I'm an animal person and well...truthfully, the concept of bestiality sickens me--romantic is fine but as for sexual-- there is no way the animal could give consent in any way, just...no) I suppose it's harmless, just a bit odd maybe, but I'm not alone and that's comforting to know.
      
      Ditto for scenery? That was one of the more confusing ones. I love art and had taken it for the duration of high school, so I've seen a lot of paintings. It all went swimmingly until one day, when the teacher had us critiquing a few still lives and scenery paintings, my heart did the thing. The fluttery thing. Needless to say, I stared at it for so long that I ran out of time to complete the assignment. I was really confused, and still am, as it happened on several other occasions after that.
      
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      - squirrelgirl
        
        9 years ago
        
        "I'm glad you exist" is probably the nicest thing a stranger has said to me. I really appreciate it! Thank you!
        
        I would love to type up a longer response to you, but I am afraid that I'm not feeling very well right now. I may or may not get back to you in the future. At any rate, I'm glad we could have this conversation. I never knew my encyclopedic knowledge of unusual attractions would actually be beneficial to anyone, so that makes me really happy.
        
        Just remember this: there are 7 billion people in the world, and many more billions who used to live in the past. Whatever you may think, feel or experience, just know that someone, somewhere, at some point in time, has felt the exact same way. Take care.
        
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Gawdzirra

9 years ago

Your ex's... dog? o_O

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  9 years ago
  
  You can imagine how confusing and awkward this was. :/ It didn't happen right away, it was about a year of dating him that the crush began. I have a hard time distinguishing between platonic and romantic, if it's platonic on their side, I most likely feel it romantically. I didn't act on this, Don't worry, I just pushed it to the back of my mind. We're split up now, so I don't see his dog anymore.
  
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lololol777

7 years ago

No. Having a crush on anything that isn't a human is just creepy.... as shit

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kelseyt

9 years ago

It was normal until the second paragraph. Stop trollinggggg

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  9 years ago
  
  I'm not trolling. I put the ones that I thought were most 'normal' first, ones I've heard one or two other people liking, but the second paragraph had things I never heard anyone else share. But you answered my question in a way at least.
  
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