#Word wise but .shrug. Completely different etymology

[objectcrushsuggestions]

This isn't really much of a crush suggestion as it is asking for a second opinion if my attraction "counts" as object sexuality. Basically, I am attracted to flesh/body parts. Like, not when they're attached to a person, but seeing them as their own individual entities. I tend to gravitate towards hands, and I get especially attached to characters like Thing from the Addams family and Master Hand from Smash Bros.

I'm sorry if it sounds strange, I just feel the way I experience attraction overlaps with the objectum community and its tough trying to understand my feelings.

Hello ! (Sorry this took a while we didn't answer asks for a bit!!)

Anyways thank you for sending this ask!! Some headmates in our system have similar experiences to what you just described.

Some of this response is edited from a kind of idk rambling about ideas I had about this when we initially got your ask bc its kind of hard to piece together my ideas on this.

Ive literally had the same experience and idk what to call this. Im considering proposing the term 'partum' (from 'body part') like. Idk how to explain this as not just as a kink or adjacent thing to people but. Attraction to an body part itself on its own maybe also in a conceptum way too

or organs also

For me its like the concept of. How in cartoons body parts are separate and moving and not associated w a character??

bc its not exactly attraction to a person it's only to a body part. Maybe objectum-adjacent but extension of things like cheirophilia with the example of hands but as an orientation (like how objectum is like if objectophilia as an orientation !!)

But I maybe see this as similar to like attraction to mannequins or maybe plants as.

I also feel like its pretty common for ppl to think about body parts on their own w no real idea of thinking of someone as attached to them in hypothetical scenarios about attraction so. Idk maybe a label would be useful for this in my opinion

Some objectum people experience object sentience (posic+) so if you percieve body parts as having sentience of their own then posic+ may also apply to you

Although Master Hand is a sentient character lots of objectums are attracted to / attached to object-like characters too as well as fictional objects (and of course some like some of our systems headmates are also attracted to people and not just objects). This could sometimes also fit into the ficto- spectrum (Which again to me also includes ppl who are also into real life ppl.bc labels don't need to be so strict imo and I don't like the gatekeeping some people do about labels)

Also I do think it does not really fit societal norms to be attracted to body parts on their own not just bc theyre attached to a person, which I find similar to how objectum and objectophilia are viewed by society.

Also I think if you feel the objectum label fits you you're welcome to use it and be part of the objectum community! ! We definitely consider your experiences to feel objectum to us but its not really for us (or anyone else) to decide whether someone else "counts" as objectum because that can easily go towards ppl gatekeeping the label from ppl who find it useful imo.

Sorry if this was a disjointed or not-cohesive answer I wasn't really sure what I was saying at some points and I feel like some of it I just didn't get into words

We have anon asks off currently but as this was one we got before we switched off anons we answered it!!