Last week I covered financial domination. This week I bring you "looning" or, to put it simply, balloon fetishes.
A couple years ago, TLC was airing this show called Strange Sex. It lasted hardly a season with only six short episodes, but I remember one being about balloon fetishes. The show followed a stranger around as he explored his fascination with balloons and visited a fetish club in New York. What interested me was that he was initially afraid of balloons... only to develop a sexual fetish for them later in life.
Like pretty much anything, there is a surprisingly large underground world of looners, as they are often referred, with many sites and videos dedicated to the fetish.
Among the looners, there are "poppers" and "non-poppers" or those who like the popping of a balloon and those who dread it. With both, the rush comes from the anticipation of the pop. Some may also enjoy blowing them up until they pop, or sitting/lying on them. Some may also experience an attraction or emotional attachment to the balloon.
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there are some interesting people in this world
O.O wow and I often think I am weird lol
Oh my....and here I am...scared of balloons..haha!
here are 4 more (safe for work), including some commentary on the balloon fetish. http://www.cracked.com/article_17149_5-ridiculous-safe-work-fetishes.html
is it just me, or do girls not have fetishes? bdsm doesn't count, it's too common.
oh man this was on the united states of tara. interesting
I like popping bubble wrap. sometimes pop them one at a time. but I usually like rolling it up into a fruit rollup and wringing out the bubbles until they pop simultaneously and make mini fire cracker noises
it isn't my fetish, but once in a while whenever I stumble upon some bubble wrap packaging filler, then I'll pop them.
my mother likes stepping on bubble wrap. one time I heard noise outside in the living room and wondered wtf...drive-by shooting
but then I heard her laughing while she was happily popping the bubbles with her feet:D it looked like fun. so I tried it and yep, quite tantalizing
it might be contagious.
@TheNotoriousGOD@xanga - I really like facial hair. Will you count that?
@brittmichele - oh yeah? i grow a beard in about 20 minutes and shave once a week.
we should hang out sometime.
ya you are right, girls don't have fetish.
But they DO have obsessions...just watch my strange obsession.
Girls are more likely to eat baby powder and drink gasoline than masturbate to the way a shoe looks.
That show is amazing! TLC has some cool ass shows.
And trust me, gals have fetishes too.
@AncoraImparo@xanga - very few girls have fetishes...and if they do they fall into the BDSM type.
Whereas men will dive deeper into that strange world.
There are some cases of Sexual Objectus (or something like that) where women will fall in love with an amusement park or the statue of liberty :)
@testyman666@xanga - I remember watching about a woman who fell for the Eiffel Tower! So random lol. This woman right here has a fetish but it would indeed be interesting to see the percentages of male vs female. :P
@AncoraImparo@xanga - Hey that's cool. I paint with broad strokes, but obviously there are exceptions. Someone should do a doc on female fetishes since it's generally overlooked.
They are always showing a guy licking a shoe or coming home putting on a corset.
Interesting name - means I'm still learning :)
@testyman666@xanga - YES! They should totally do a doc on female fetishes. lol, licking a shoe. teehee. Yep, I'm still learning. Always always. Happy you noticed.
@AncoraImparo@xanga - Interesting idea. I hope Datingish makes a new post that let's xangans share what their fetishes are.
LMAO!!! That is the funniest thing!! And the "poppers and non-poppers" lol...they take it seriously. I would imagine the fetish as balloons resembles female breast?
@TheNotoriousGOD@xanga - zippers
trippy, I'm a Loon so I had to see what this is, it's nothing to do with my kinda loon lol
I'd so love to share this on Facebook for the laughs, but I've got a few people who are prudes. Pity!
I'm lovin these fetish posts
@XskinniloveX@xanga - How kindly put! I was going to say that there were a lot of wing nuts out there! LAMO! There are so many more interesting fetishes to have. Balloons? Wow, how boring! What's next? Perhaps a fetish involving, gherkins?
I know....heaven help us, right? lol
@XskinniloveX@xanga - You know it, sista!
The weirdest thing someone has ever asked me to do in the bedroom was step on cockroaches in bright red high heels. I kindly declined, but did a little research later on and yep, a whole underground world.
I have some fetishes I am sure people fine strange but to me are totally normal.
Having been in the BDSM & Fetish worlds - author of erotica - there really isn't anything I havent seen or heard of. Some gross, some funny, some intriguing.