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Robot fetishism is the name popularly used to describe a fetishistic attraction to humanoid or non-humanoid robots or people dressed in robot costumes. A related fetish is statuephilia or agalmatophilia, which involves attraction to mannequins or statues. A common fantasy related to these fetishes involves transformation into a robot, mannequin, doll or statue.

It is sometimes referred to by the initials ASFR, from the alt.sex.fetish.robots newsgroup.

Robot fetishism can be viewed as a form of erotic objectification.

The gynoid in Fritz Lang's film Metropolis can be viewed as an early example of the robot as fetish object. Frank Zappa's classic concept album Joe's Garage dealt with robot fetishism as a sort of perversion where the protagonist, "Joe", sinks into a life of sexual confusion and meaningless experimentation. In Star Trek: The Next Generation, the android, Data, was the object of sexual desire more than once up to actual sex and he was extensively programmed with numerous sexual techniques.

The fetish artist Hajime Sorayama is notable for his depiction of robots as erotic objects, and video artist Chris Cunningham has also depicted robots as fetish objects, perhaps most notably in a music video to accompany the music of Björk.

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