Wow! 15 Weird Sex Fetishes...
Once you pop
Blowing up a balloon may make most of us think of birthday parties, but for "poppers" this is a sexual act. These fetishists get hot thinking of the colour and smell of a balloon, or by watching it blow up. When the balloon pops, it's both a metaphorical and literal sexual release.
Vampire sex
Of course you have a special place in your heart for Edward Cullen -- but for most of us, our vampire yearnings end there. (Okay, there and a few nice dreams.) For people involved with hematolagnia, using or even drinking blood in a sexual way (or having erotic thoughts about blood) is a huge turn-on.
Adult Baby Syndrome
This takes baby talk in the bedroom to a whole new level: Adult Baby Syndrome, or paraphillic infantilism, is a rare sexual fetish where a person dresses up like a baby before having sex -- bib, bonnet and all. Role playing may include drinking from a baby bottle, wearing nappies or breastfeeding (of course).
Tickle Me Baby
A lot of people love it when their partner sweetly tickles during foreplay? But most times it's not enough to get off on. Those who participate in knismolagnia do, though, and get an intense sexual arousal from tickling -- without any sort of intercourse or other touch.
Flying in the Buff
Nudists rejoice! A tour operator in Germany, OssiUrlab.de, organizes nude flights so passengers can fly in their birthday suit. Obviously, you have to be clothed while boarding the plane -- but passengers can let it all hang out once the flight takes off. Wonder if you get to choose who you sit next to.
Karezza
Most people wouldn't complain about having too many orgasms -- but for some folks it's all about denying the release. Karezza is an ancient sexual technique where the goal is to avoid release -- always. The point is to feel extremely sexually stimulated without release: you have sex slowly and gently (and for a long time) while being mindful of your partner's state of arousal. Those who practice Karezza claim it leads to happier, healthier relationships over time as well as a heightened spiritual state of bliss.
Sexual Surrogates
A sex surrogate helps to treat a man's sexual issues by having physical contact with him (think erotic massage, sensual touch, getting him to orgasm comfortably). These paid and legal healers address problems like erectile dysfunction or premature ejaculation by uncovering the underlying emotional issues with their client's sex problems.
Whipped Erotica
Sure, a little whipped cream is fun in the bedroom, but some people find it intensely arousing to be covered from head to toe in wet, messy food. Sploshers are turned on by food -- not just by eating it, but also rolling in or having direct sexual contact with it. (Yes, like in American Pie.)
Dolls, Dolls. Dolls
We get why people would put a life-sized doll into their passenger seat to sneak onto theT2 lane (kind of), but there are people who bring a doll back to the bedroom…and then strike up a relationship with it. Agalmatophilia is a fetish that involves having sexual relationships with a statue, mannequin or blow-up doll.
Checking in Your Sexy Time
Who's having great sex in Yemen? How many positions did a San Francisco couple engage in? To date, nearly 200,000 entries have been logged onto Ijustmadelove.com, a site where you record each time you have sex onto a virtual map of the world. Its filter option lets you view details on who did it outdoors or without condoms (eek!), providing a neat, real-time survey of how couples get down all over the world.
Love Huts
Among the Kreung tribe in a remote part of northeast Cambodia, parents build a love hut for their daughter to prepare her for marriage. She then initiates sex with different male suitors until she finds one she wants to marry. In this tribe, marriage is the woman's choice -- an idea that's very modern in Cambodia.
Objectum Sexuality
You can swear off men after a few bad dates, but most of us probably don't turn to our car for sexual and emotional satisfaction, right? Those who identify with objectum sexuality don't have to worry if the thing they love calls them back or not. With this fetish, people fall in love with a building or object and has sexual relations with it. They can even get married. ("I now pronounce you man and the Empire State Building.") These fetishists have been known to fall for a Ferris wheel, fences or even the Eiffel Tower.
Furry Fun
Sure, we think teddy bears are pretty cute, but furries actually get aroused by being them. Ursusagalmatophiliacs (say that one after a drink) are people who dress up as animals and have sex with others who are also in costume.
Alien Encounters of the Sexy Kind
Lots of people love to watch (or read) The X-Files, Star Wars, Star Trek, but some men and women crave even closer encounters of the third kind. We're going to guess that they don't have sex with actual aliens, but those with Exophilia get off on the many alien sex fetish web sites or by dressing up as their favourite other-worldly characters to have sex.
Tantric Sex
Dating back 6,000 years, Tantric sex is an Eastern spiritual technique in which sex is considered a "full-body" experience with a goal of spiritual enlightenment. In other words: instead of rushing to the finish line, couples learn about each other's states of arousal to intensify pleasure all over. This kind of love-making is said to lead to multiple to orgasms for both women and men, and improve sexual communication between partners. While orgasm isn't the ultimate goal with Tantric sex, which involves licking, fondling and caressing each other while slowing building up to arousing marathon-like sex.
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