Krafft - Ebing recorded an 1877 case of a gardener falling in love with a statue of the Venus de Milo and being discovered attempting coitus with it .
Agalmatophilia became a subject of clinical study with the publication of Richard von Krafft - Ebing 's Psychopathia Sexualis .
Richard von Krafft - Ebing     recorded an 1877 case of a gardener falling in love with a statue of the Venus de Milo and being discovered attempting coitus with it .
Agalmatophilia became a subject of clinical study with the publication of Richard von Krafft - Ebing 's Psychopathia Sexualis .