Citations:toonophilia

English citations of toonophilia

Noun: "sexual and/or romantic attraction to fictional characters from animated media"

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• 1996 March 21, Lenester the Badger, “Re: POLL: Best Cartoon w/ furries?”, in alt.fan.furry‎^[1] (Usenet):

  Yes, that particular four-parter has a special place in my heart... it was the main root from which my toonophilia, and later my furriness, grew. (Well, more likely the root was already there, and it was the fertilizer.)

• 1996 March 24, Lenester the Badger, “Re: confessions of a furry toonophile”, in alt.fan.furry‎^[2] (Usenet):

  My toonophilia actually originated as an appreciation of the wit and irony present in many of the better cartoons; characters like Fifi la Flume and Rebecca Cunningham were an added attraction, of course, and I'm glad they're there; however, without the quality humor, the shows are extremely boring.

• 1996 July 12, Lenester Taxidean, “Re: How'd YOU hear about Furries?”, in alt.fan.furry‎^[3] (Usenet):

  Toonophilia hit me somewhere around 15 or 16. (That is, as soon as I had more than CBS, NBC, and PBS to watch.) Tale Spin was the first cartoon with characters I fantasized about, followed quickly by TTA and later Animaniacs.

• 1997 February 17, cmelv...@aol.com, “Re: ALF (Was Re: Something bad...)”, in alt.fan.furry‎^[4] (Usenet):

  The problem here is that we -are- now two separate and disparate groups, with a small overlap. This is what you're not understanding. (And I expect this will really touch off a hot debate.) As I've said, I've been reading through ALF mostly out of curiousity, and I can't see a single thing I can relate to there, nor do I see very much that I can identify as furry, and I see far too much (as in the threads about zoophilia and toonophilia) that I dread even being remotely linked to furry fandom.

• 1999 January 21, Locandez, “Re: something burning”, in alt.fan.furry‎^[5] (Usenet):

  You neglect to mention "toonophilia", which is as much a part of the furry lifestyle community as zoophilia and plushophilia. Some Burnt Furs appear to be leaning towards being toonophiles themselves.
  And before you ask: toonophilia is a sexual or emotional attraction towards cartoon characters (in this context, furry 'toons). It is not a "politically correct label for fanboys lusting after spooge-covered vixens", or something equally clueless.

• 1999 October 30, Muke Tever, “Re: galen's plushie site becomes today's "Cruel Site of the Day"”, in alt.fan.furry‎^[6] (Usenet):

  Toonophilia isn't furry fandom, but it can bring people to it, because it's similar to begin with.

• 1998, Kevin S. Sandler, Reading the Rabbit: Explorations in Warner Bros. Animation, page 251:

  The term "animatophilia" resonates with the terms “furryphilia” and “toonophilia” which fans use, though their usage includes the connotation of sexual attraction to the characters as well.

• 2014, Lhendup G. Bhutia, "Strip Tease", OPEN Magazine, 11 August 2014, page 57:

  According to some psychologists, there are people who are attracted to cartoon characters, and that this type of fetish is called 'schediaphilia' (also referred to as 'toonophilia').

• 2015, Blythe Woolston, MARTians, unnumbered page:

  I'm not an Otakusexual — although I respect toonophilia as a sexually responsible choice.

• 2017, Morag A. Yule, Lori A. Brotto, & Boris B. Gorzalka, "Sexual Fantasy and Masturbation Among Asexual Individuals: An In-Depth Exploration", Archives of Sexual Behavior, Volume 46 (2017), page 323:

  We did not ask specifically about schediaphilia (also known as toonophilia; Griffiths, 2012), or sexual attraction to animated cartoon or anime characters.

• 2020, Ana Matilde Sousa, "She's Not Your Waifu; She's an Eldritch Abomination: Saya no uta and Queer Antisociality in Japanese Visual Novels", Mechademia: Second Arc, Volume 13, Number 1, Fall 2020:

  This inhumanity is most evident in the case of pornographic visual novels (or eroge, or bishōjo games), whose toonophilia […]

• 2021, Patrick W. Galbraith, The Ethics of Affect: Lines and Life in a Tokyo Neighborhood, page 13:

  And then, if the cartooning is “realistic” or “cartoony,” if attraction to that image reflects “virtual pedophilia” or “toonophilia,” and so on.