A woman can experience erotic desire toward a garment.
Evidence
And then I saw a coat hanging from a hook, a fur so soft, so smooth, so tender, so gray, so shy: I felt like kissing it I loved it so much. It looked like consolation and All Saints’ Day and total safety, like the sky. It was genuine vair. Silently, I took off my raincoat and put on the vair. This fur was like a diamond on my skin that loved it and what one loves, one doesn’t give it back once one has it. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1566
Categorization
- FICTION: The personification of the coat — ‘it spoke more than I to Hubert’s heart’ — captures the displaced eroticism of commodity desire; a vivid scene a fiction writer could adapt.
- XREF: connects to: The sexual act is a learned technique added to desire from outside
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The sexual act is a learned technique added to desire from outside