Saturday, November 11, 2006
Exophilia
Exophilia is an attraction, generally sexual in nature, to new, strange, or otherworldly things, such as extraterrestrial lifeforms, supernatural beings, and robots. Exophilia may be regarded as the sexual form of neophilia, which is the more generalized attraction to new and unknown things.
The 2001 book Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish by Supervert defines exophilia specifically as an erotic attraction to extraterrestrial beings and describes at length a character afflicted by this fetish.
Sometimes exophilia is regarded as a fetish, but some are born that way, just as people may be born gay, lesbian, etc. It also is linked to the belief of otherworldly entities, energies, and/or beings. Because paraphilias are used for gratification, as well as masturbation, exophiliacs are either well-satisfied or not satisfied enough. Mythos from other cultures tell of spirit/alien/demigod/etc. couplings with humans that are sexual in nature, which gives hint that perhaps at one time exophilia was possibly more common.
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Carry on,
j.
It's no wonder that this particular article was deleted; it consists almost entirely of false, unfounded, and/or speculative statements:
"Exophilia is an attraction, generally sexual in nature, to new, strange, or otherworldly things such as extraterrestrial lifeforms, supernatural beings, and robots. Exophilia may be regarded as the sexual form of neophilia..."
This is not a clinical definition, it is just the article author's definition.
"The 2001 book Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish by Supervert defines exophilia specifically as an erotic attraction to extraterrestrial beings and describes at length a character afflicted by this fetish."
This book is a work of fiction, and is not a credible source for defining a sexual paraphilia. Also, the article author doesn't know whether or not 'Supervert' coined the term. The article author's definition of the term is a subjective expansion of Supervert's definition. Finally, the author doesn't even accurately report Supervert's definition.
"Sometimes exophilia is regarded as a fetish..."
By whom? Why? 'Sometimes regarded' is an example of a weasel phrase. Sadly, Wikipedia is loaded with weasel words and phrases.
"... but some are born that way"
How do you know that? Does anyone know that? No, of course not.
"It also is linked to the belief of otherworldly entities, energies, and/or beings."
So it's impossible to fantasize about mythical or fictional beings without also believing that they're real?
"Because paraphilias are used for gratification..."
One doesn't "use" a paraphilia.
"Mythos from other cultures..."
'Other' as compared to what?
"...tell of spirit/alien/demigod/etc. couplings with humans that are sexual in nature, which gives hint that perhaps at one time exophilia was possibly more common."
Pure speculation. Writing your own hypotheses in a Wikipedia article hurts the project.
So we have a highly questionable definition of the term 'exophilia', followed by an author implying knowledge of the relative pervasiveness of the phenomenon, past and present.
Should the article have been purged from Wikipedia? Definitely. Are there other articles still in Wikipedia that are just as bad? Oh yes!
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