Trans-Humanities Journal

“Loving Objects” explores the formation of a newly named sexual orientation, objectum-sexuality (OS), claimed by people who openly declare their desire for objects, not as fetishes, but as amorous partners. The article examines popular media depictions of OS which take a suspicious view of OS, arguing that these are symptomatic of worries about what constitutes proper objects of love in the context of proliferating discourses about emotional and territorial security. Comparing OS to commercial consumption of objects as well as to scientists’ enchantments with their objects of study, the article draws on feminist technoscience studies to argue that OS is not as strange as it would, on first contact, appear.