What Is Plushophilia?
Plushophilia is the sexual attraction to stuffed animals, but it could also involve romantic feelings towards stuffies.
A person who has a kink or fetish for stuffed animals is known as a plushophile or plushie.
Plushophilia vs Autoplushophilia
Plushophiles often attribute personalities, genders, human traits, and sexual orientations to their stuffed animals. Plushies may also engage in conversations and role plays with these objects of their affection.
Autoplushophilia is a sexual fetish wherein someone imagines themselves as a stuffed animal. They may be “playing with” other stuffed animals or being played with, by another human (plushie).
Sexual activity involving animal anthropomorphism (including plushophilia), is known among the plushie and furry communities as yiffing.
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Why Do People Have a Plushie Fetish?
Most of us grow up with stuffed animals, characters, or dolls that are given to us from birth. They are snuggly, soft, and cute, and always there when we need comfort. Many children become extremely attached to a particular stuffed animal that they will carry around, sleep with, bring to school or on trips. Many adults still have their favorite stuffy from childhood!
Most plushophiles will cite this early imprinting or bonding to stuffed animals as part of the attraction they now have as an adult. Nostalgia and warm memories can play a part, as well as the intimate bond they felt for stuffies when they were young— this deep connection develops into a kinky or sexual one.
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Stuffed animals provide the fetishist comfort and calm—their stuffy is always there when they need someone to listen without judgment, to snuggle with, and to provide a kind of sexual satisfaction they may not have with anyone in their life (although plushophilia isn’t just for singles.)
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Plushophilia vs Furry Fetish
While both furries and plushies may feel a deep connection to animals, there isn’t a huge overlap. Few furries are also plushies, and vice versa, as these kinks are unique and very different.
Furries often describe their connection to animals as spiritual. They may admit feeling closer to animals than humans in general, or even wish they were an animal (often the one they dress up as, or their “fursona”). They may even incorporate animal behaviors into their everyday lives.
Read: Furry Fetish: 5 Interesting Facts about Furries
Plushies love their stuffed animals and often enjoy their plushie rituals solo. The relationship is one-on-one, and not something they enjoy in a community environment.
Not all furries are interested in sex within the community, but many are, while plushies are interested in having sex with the stuffed animal(s) that they own.
How Do Plushophiles Play?
Let’s take a look at nine ways plushie lovers play.
1. Stuffed Animal Collecting
A lot of people keep their stuffies from childhood, for nostalgic purposes. Plushophiles may also do this, but also build a collection over time.
A collection may include all kinds of animals or doll-like figures, or a specific type, such as teddy bears or Holly Hobbie dolls. Collections may be brand specific or focus on stuffed animals from a particular era or decade.
2. Sleeping with Stuffies
It’s not unusual for adults to sleep with a stuffed animals, as they can still provide a similar comfort they did for a person when they were a child.
The plushie may not be a collector, but only have one special stuffy that sleeps with them every night (even if they have a partner they share a bed with). Or the plushie may rotate their stuffed animals, so everyone gets a turn. Other plushophiles may have king-sized bed to accommodate a mountain of stuffies!
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3. Sex with Stuffed Animals
Because plushophiles often attribute human personalities and traits to their stuffed animals, sex with a plush toy is merely an extension of their attraction.
Depending on the “relationship” with their stuffed animal, it could be a gentle rubbing of the stuffy on their genitals while masturbating or a full-on penetration through a hole in their stuffy, or inserting part of a stuffed animal or doll into themselves.
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4. Plushie Role Playing
Sex with a plushie may include role playing, where the plushophile talks to their stuffy, whispering sweet nothings or shouting demands. Plushie role play interactions can be vanilla with re-enacted tea parties with all their “friends and lovers,” or something more kinky that might include tying up Teddy or spanking Raggedy Ann.
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5. Stuffy Worship
Just as furries may feel reverential towards their spirit animal or chosen fursona, plushies may put their stuffies on pedestals, figuratively or literally.
Those practicing plushie worship may see their chosen stuffy as God-like, praying to or sharing intimate stories or confessions with it. They might have a special glass cabinet or mantle or shelf where their stuffies reside.
6. Sex Dolls for Plushies
While lifelike sex dolls become more ubiquitous and accessible to fetishists, plush sex dolls also exist and have their place in plushophilia. A major draw for plushophiles is the soft texture. A plush sex doll can be manufactured or handcrafted with holes or appendage for penetrative plushie sex.
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7. Plush Suits
Plushies can also feel aroused around someone dressed up as a stuffed animal, such as a sports team mascot or a theme-park character. It’s like having a stuffy that has come to life, that can be admired and interacted with. No one needs to know you’d like to bang Minnie Mouse while snapping pics at Disneyworld.
8. Plushie Porn and Erotica
Porn caters to every conceivable fetish and kink, and some not so conceivable! If you are a plushophile, you’ll want to check out porn for plushies the next time you’re on your favorite porn site.
You can watch women rub stuffies on their pussies, or men cum all over their favorite stuffed animal—whatever floats your boat.
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9. Plushophilia Forums
While some couples may enjoy their love of stuffed animals together, or one partner will indulge the other’s fetish, most plushies enjoy their unique relationship with their stuffy alone in private. But what a plushie might long for is to talk with others who share a similar interest and attraction.
This can be done safely and without judgment in plushophilia forums. While this kink is not as popular as something like a foot fetish or bondage kinks, you will find them.
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