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I have a thing about inanimate objects.

It's not a sex thing.

Some people do have a sex thing about being treated like inanimate objects used as footstools

or tables.

I think the way these people,

these inanimate object, want to be perverts, I think the way they get off on being treated like inanimate objects highlights just how non-actually objectifying the kind of objectification

we're told is not okay, never okay, because people aren't objects, even though people are objects we meet all the criteria

the oxford english dictionary my favorite dictionary where i have a citation my proudest

professional achievement the oxford english dictionary defines object as a material tangible thing

that can be perceived by the senses a material thing that can be perceived by the senses, a material thing that can be seen

and touched. So we are objects, but we want the sweet spot is finding someone who can do both,

as they say, a partner who can appreciate you for the object, the material thing that you are,

who amongst us does not want to be seen and touched,

but a partner who doesn't lose sight of our humanity, our soul, for lack of a better word,

the thing about each of us that is immaterial. But someone who wants to be used as a footstool,

that guy wants to be an inanimate object. My thing about objects isn't a desire to be treated like an inanimate object or treat someone

like one.

I just collect things, objects, mementos, pieces of the Berlin Wall, my grandmother's infant

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