Who doesn’t love balloons?! They’re round, squishy, cause static fun happy times, and make a horrible squeaking sound when you rub your fingers against them all slow-like. Balloon fetishists, also known as “looners,” get turned on from watching others blowing up balloons and popping them either with using a sharp object, sitting on them, or blowing them up until they burst. Most explain that they are turned on from the popping because of the tension built up before the explosion and the release from the burst. Others express interest in the feel of the latex. Loonists aren’t specific to sexual identity, there are looners who are straight and gay.
Enjoy these videos made for looners!
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The first Thursday of every month, The Exploratorium holds a special night called “After Dark.” Each After Dark event showcases the scientific aspects behind “adult interests,” whether it be alcohol, sex or fashion. On February 4th, After Dark presented their program on all things sexual entitled “Sexplorations.” In between visiting the bar, patrons can check out live dissections of testicles, learn about the sex life of orchids and insects, and see the inner workings of vibrators. Want to know what testicles taste like? They offered that. Pined away trying to figure out which animal has the biggest sperm? It’s the fruit fly, that little bastards’ sperm is bigger than itself. Frankly, Sexplorations was a Valhalla for sex bio geeks, but a frustrating experience for those who are more interested in the cultural history of sex and sexuality. I was somewhere in between.
To begin, Roach discussed how being a sex researcher can be a bit awkward, how even just telling people what kind of work you do can get a bit embarrassing depending on the other persons reaction. As an example of the awkward aspects of being asexuality researcher Roach discussed a one Dr. Brimley who discovered a type of substance that when injected right into the penis can cause an impressive erection. Completely excited about this he showed up to his next black and white affair wearing a flimsy track suit. As the men and women wore expensive suits and glamorous gowns, Dr. Brimley walked around pulling the fabric to his track pants back to show the outline of his hard on. The guests looked appalled and the Doctor couldn’t understand why they weren’t impressed by his tumescence.
At points Mary Roach reiterated her TED Talks lecture, even showing the notorious romancing the pig video, but overall it was great to see her discuss her research and experience with sex researchers live. One unfortunate aspect that came up through her lecture was the lack of diversity in much of the sex research she encountered. Most of the researchers she interviewed were studying strictly heterosexual forms of sex for the purpose of reproduction. The more exciting aspects of her lecture were times when she met with a woman who could orgasm just through thought. The problem is that little biological and physiological research is being done when discussing non-heterosexual sex, other than when researchers want to find difference in brain size or finger length. However, I did appreciate that much of Roach’s book is dedicated to research on pleasure and orgasm, and seemingly not for the purpose of making desire abnormal.
Towards the end of her lecture, Mary Roach discussed coming across fascinating articles like “Observations of In Utero Fetal Masturbation,” where sonograms of little fetuses tugging it were the feature exhibit of the research study. Mary Roach then ended with a list she received from an article on foreign bodies found in the rectums of ER patients: frozen pig tails, hairspray can “incarcerated in a 37 year-old lawyer,” spatula, jewelers saw, and four hundred and two stones. Things that make you go “ow!”
Below is Mary Roach’s TED Talks lecture, “10 Things You Didn’t Know About Orgasm,” if you’d like to view the video with one of fifteen translated subtitles or view the transcript, click here to view the video on the TED website.
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Sploshing is a fetish involving (mostly) women covered & messy from food or mud. Popularized in England, these women are filthed up with a variety of food including, but not limited to, baked beans, cream, macaroni and cheese, chocolate and custard. The reason behind the turn on from this, like many other fetishes, could be one of numerous reasons. One might enjoy the imagery of a woman getting dirty, deviating from her prim and properness and in an essence losing her innocence. Others might enjoy the tactile feel of the food on skin, and some may just enjoy including a sense of humor in their sex life. How else can you make you and your partner share some giggles other than by shoving a Boston Cream Pie in their face? But let’s also mention the obvious here, shall we? Some might argue that Sploshing largely involves degrading and humiliating women by covering them in food, something women are socially made responsible for preparing in the household. However, this brings in the argument of what happens between two consenting adults as long as it isn’t physically and emotionally harmful should be completely allowed. Thoughts on this, people?
For a little giggle, let’s watch British comedian Graham Norton graciously interview a few Sploshers to gain a better understanding behind this fetish:
Enjoy the following youtube videos. Note: you most likely have to be signed in to YouTube to watch these videos since food not going in the mouth is purely adult in nature.
Can I have your attention, please? Can all women stand up? Now, 60 percent of you please step forward. Thank you. For the 60 percent of women out there, here is a French flag, now can you kindly stake this flag onto your g-spot? Perfect. That’s right, the French have “re-discovered” the g-spot! After last months scare by the British, women can take a sigh of relief. The g-spot that they knew existed but were told was all a figment of their imagination is no longer a symptom of hypersexual psychosis.
First Dr. Grafenberg openly discussed the g-spot as a cluster of nerves in his article “The Role of Urethra in Female Orgasm” in 1944. With the eroticism of a VCR manual, Dr. G states, “the anterior wall of the vagina along the urethra is the seat of a distinct erotogenic zone and has to be taken into account more in the treatment of female sexual deficiency.” 60 years later the debate continues, and the French are gaining attention as of late as the Christopher Columbus of G-Spot. “Look! We found it!” they exclaim, but some women come out and say “wait no…it’s been here. Uh, we’ve always known it’s here.” In a recent conference, a group of French gynecologists gathered to slam the Brits stating that they knew all along that the g-spot exists.
Once again we have the academic and medical community declaring when and how women gain sexual pleasure. While I agree with the researcher from the recent British study who stated that she did not want women who did not experience g-spot pleasure to feel inadequate or lesser-than, she is taking away womens’ right to declaring what gets them off.
While the ivory tower continues to be filled with sloppy seconds for “research purposes,” lets go over how one may find the G-spot. The G-spot can be stimulated by inserting a finger (or five, go for five. Do it. Five. Yes, the thumb is a finger) into the vagina about an inch and positioning the finger towards the front of the body, then make a come hither motion. As comedian Dave Attell stated, pretend like you’re “backing up the worlds smallest truck.” Or, if you want to follow this eHow.com article, the G-spot “is supposed to be particularly sensitive to stimulation by a man’s pen is (sic).” Sorry, that cracks me up every time.
People of earth: how does it feel when the academic and medical community band together to decide your own sexual pleasure? You feel warm and fuzzy, don’t you?
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