Here’s what an intense desire for a fictional character looks like. Fictophilia, fictosexuality and fictoromance refer to the intense and enduring emotional attachment, love, infatuation or desire ...

Sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction. A Japanese man who tied the knot with a computer-synthesized character is on a mission to educate people about fictosexuals. Akihiko Kondo married made ...

Human sexuality is weird and messy. We know this because of wikiFeet, PornHub search data, and the existence of the omegaverse. And yet, when a new term or concept reaches the mainstream, it can still ...

We know characters in fiction as well as we know many, and perhaps most, of the people around us. Yet fictional characters are often sketched remarkably lightly. In the more than 800 pages of ...

I haven't been on a date in over six months. But over that time, I've probably fallen in love at least twenty times. Clinical sexologist and psychosexual therapist Chloe Scotney explains that there ...