We know what it's like to fall in love with someone and to express desire for an object we wanted to have (an LV bag perhaps?).To some, the mere thought of a relationship with an actual human being, male or female, seems outrageous.
Take for example Eija-Riitta Berliner-Mauer, 54, was diagnosed with a condition called objectophilia, which was characterized with feelings of love, attraction, arousal, and commitment for a particular object. Edward Smith, 57, on the other hand suffers from mechaphilia, a sexual attraction to machines.
"I'm not sick and I don't want to hurt anyone, cars are just my preference," says Edward, who currently ‘lives with’ a white Volkswagen Beetle named Vanilla whom he calls his "girlfriend."
A self-professed romantic, Smith, writes poems about his cars and says he first had sex with a car at the age of 15. Since then, he says he's only been attracted to autos, not humans.
He is not alone. Mr Smith is now part of a global community of more than 500 "car lovers" brought together by internet forums.
If you think that’s bizarre, wait till you hear this one.
"I find long, slim things with horizontal lines very sexy. The Great Wall of China's attractive, but he’s too thick – my husband is sexier," says Mrs. Berliner-Mauer, (her surname means Berlin Wall in German) whose fetish is said to have its roots in childhood, claimed she fell in love with the structure when she first saw it on television when she was seven.
Her marriage has pretty much entirely ‘broken down’ when the Berlin wall was torn down in 1989 so much so that she has shifted her affections to a nearby garden fence.
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