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Fictosexuality is sexual attraction towards fictional characters. Fictosexuality refers to “feeling sexual attraction to fictional objects but rarely having similar feelings to real humans”, or more generally “having sexual/romantic/marital desires for fictional characters”.[1][2] Fictosexual individuals who do not experience sexual attraction towards real people are considered to be on the asexual spectrum.[3][4]
Amidst fictosexual individuals, those who experience attraction towards manga/anime style (“two-dimensional”) characters possess a distinct sexuality in comparison to those who experience attraction towards actual human beings. As otaku studies have established, the inclination towards two-dimensional characters is not a yearning for real human beings, but for “an orientation of desire toward fiction”.[5] To be more specific, the attraction towards manga/anime style images is not a desire for flesh-and-blood humans, but for non-human artifacts in the form of two-dimensional characters.[1][6]
In Japan, the term "fikutosekushuaru" (fictosexual) is primarily used to describe a sexual attraction towards two-dimensional characters. Meanwhile, in China, the term "Zhǐ-Xìng-Liàn" (fictosexual) specifically refers to sexual attraction towards two-dimensional characters only.
Fictosexuals in Japan have formulated the concept of “interpersonal sexuality centrism” (taijinseiai chushin shugi) as the prevailing normative sexuality centered around sexual attraction towards flesh-and-blood humans.[1][2] The concept of fictosexuality is thought to be a combination of the idea of compulsory sexuality from asexual research and the notion of humanonormativity from objectum sexuality research[7]. Due to these norms, fictosexual individuals are often marginalized.[1][2]
Research
Demographic Research
There are currently a limited number of statistical studies on fictosexual individuals. A demographic survey carried out by the Japanese Association for Sex Education revealed that over 10% of young Japanese individuals reported feeling love towards fictional characters.[8]
Feminism and Queer Research
Several asexual studies refer to fictosexuality[3] and Elizabeth Miles argues that “as with current theorizations of asexuality, (…) desire for two-dimensional [nijigen] characters forces us to reconsider what sex is and how legal and social proscriptions deny sexual access and the rights of full sexual citizenship.”[9]
In her analysis of the notion of "animation" put forth by Teri Silvio and Hiroki Azuma's interpretation of Derrida, sociologist and queer theorist Yuu Matsuura argues that sexual attraction to two-dimensional characters subverts established norms in a distinct manner from Butler's performativity.[1][6] The subversion is “transforming the method of perception or the way of desire through animation constructing the beings of a category that did not exist before.”[10] Matsuura also posits a theory that interpersonal sexuality centrism is linked to heteronormativity and gender binarism.[6][1]
Comics studies
Japanese manga researcher Itō Gō argues that "if they do not recognize the existence of readings other than the mapping of the “real flesh-and-blood body” or exaggerated stereotypes for the Kyara image, then they cannot see the level of the “things” itself that is the object of desire in Fictsexuals."[11][1]
Discrimination and Stigmatization
Fictosexuals have been marginalized or concealed in societies that adhere to the norm of sexual attraction to human beings. They are occasionally stigmatized or pathologized.[1][2][4] Additionally, the sexual attraction towards two-dimensional characters can be erroneously portrayed as a mere inclination towards a particular form of artistic representation, whereas the attraction is, in reality, directed towards a non-human entity.[2] Even LGBT communities discredits fictosexuals, considering them as imposters or not authentic members of sexual minorities like LGBT.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Liao, SH (2023). "Fictosexual Manifesto: Their Position, Political Possibility, and Critical Resistance". NTU-OTASTUDY GROUP.
- ^ a b c d e Matsuura, Yuu (2021). "日常生活の自明性によるクレイム申し立ての「予めの排除／抹消」――「性的指向」概念に適合しないセクシュアリティの語られ方に注目して" [“Foreclosure/Erasure” of Claims-Making by the Everyday Life as Taken for Granted: Discourse Analysis about “Fictosexual” as Sexuality that does not Conform to “Sexual Orientation”]. 現代の社会病理 (Journal of Social Problems). 36: 67–83. doi:10.50885/shabyo.36.0_67.
- ^ a b Yule, Morag A.; Brotto, Lori A.; Gorzalka, Boris B. "Sexual Fantasy and Masturbation Among Asexual Individuals: An In-Depth Exploration" (PDF). Archives of Sexual Behavior. 46: 311–328. doi:10.1007/s10508-016-0870-8.
- ^ a b Karhulahti, Veli-Matti; Välisalo, Tanja (2021). "Fictosexuality, Fictoromance, and Fictophilia: A Qualitative Study of Love and Desire for Fictional Characters". Frontiers in Psychology. 11. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.575427.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ^ Galbraith, Patrick W. (2019). Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan. Duke University Press.
- ^ a b c Matsuura, Yuu (2022). "アニメーション的な誤配としての多重見当識：非対人性愛的な「二次元」へのセクシュアリティに関する理論的考察" [Multiple Orientations as Animating Misdelivery: Theoretical Considerations on Sexuality Attracted to Nijigen (Two-Dimensional) Objects]. ジェンダー研究 (Gender Studies) (25). Institute for Gender Studies, Ochanomizu University: 139–157. doi:10.24567/0002000551.
- ^ Matsuura, Yuu (2023). "対人性愛中心主義批判の射程に関する検討――フェミニズム・クィアスタディーズにおける対物性愛研究を踏まえて" [Humanonormativity and Interpersonal Sexuality Centrism: A Discussion Based on Objectum Sexuality Studies from a Feminist and Queer Perspective]. 人間科学共生社会学 (Human Science Sociology and Anthropology) (13). Faculty of Human-Environment Studies, Kyushu University.
- ^ Japanese Association for Sex Education, ed. (2019). 「若者の性」白書 第8回 青少年の性行動全国調査報告 [White paper on Youth Sex]. Shogakukan. ISBN 9784098402007.
- ^ Miles, Elizabeth (2020). "Porn as Practice, Porn as Access: Pornography Consumption and a ʻThird Sexual Orientationʼ in Japan". Porn Studies. 7 (3): 269–278. doi:10.1080/23268743.2020.1726205.
- ^ Matsuura, Yuu (2022). "メタファーとしての美少女：アニメーション的な誤配によるジェンダー・トラブル" [Bishōjo as Metaphor: Gender Trouble by Animating Misdelivery]. 現代思想 = La revue de la pensée d'aujourd'hui. 50 (11): 63–75. ISBN 9784791714353.
- ^ Itō, Gō (2022). Suzuki, Masao; Nakata, Kentaro (eds.). "生きてしまうキャラ：マンガのおばけ再考" [Characters that live: Ghost of Manga Revisited]. マンガメディア文化論：フレームを越えて生きる方法. Suiseisha: 415–451.