Objectification play is a consensual erotic practice in which one person is treated as an object, a thing, or a body without a self, rather than as a full person. The person being objectified agrees to the treatment in advance and remains a willing participant throughout.
For many people the appeal is the intensity of being reduced to a single purpose or attribute, which can feel like a break from the usual social demands of being a person. For the person doing the objectifying, it offers a focused form of control and attention. It often shows up through roleplay, furniture or tool scenarios, body-focused language, or rituals where the objectified person is used, displayed, or handled according to set rules.
Worth knowing: Because objectification can blur a person's sense of self worth or boundaries, clear prior negotiation, a safeword that works even in object mode, and thorough aftercare that restores the person as a whole are essential.
Also called: objectification, object play, furniture play, human furniture, doll play, dollification, body play, pet play (when reduced to an animal object), use play, degradation play, primal play
