# Balloonatics?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/balloonatics/76374>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 15, 2001, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/balloonatics/76374 "2001-08-15T13:30:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/balloonatics/76374/1 "2001-08-15T13:30:25Z")

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The newest formation in the landscape of bizarre fetishes. It comes replete with it’s own terminology, we have _looners_, _blowers_ (what a surprise), _poppers_, etc. We even have two warring factions, those that cherish their balloons, and those that can’t _eh em_ explode unless their balloon also has it’s own ‘le petit mort’. I’m not sure what faction the girl who made a video of herself deepthroating a foot long balloon belongs to, but I want to party with her if at all possible.

Perhaps these people, some time in childhood when their sexuality was first developing, got wires crossed and began to associate a child’s balloon with their first feelings of arousal. What ever the cause, I find the world a newly strange and interesting place today knowing that someone, somewhere, is rubbing a balloon animal on his or her genitals.

I’m not familiar with the decency rules of the forum, so unfortunately no links. Google if you must.

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**Author:** ![Acco40](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/58956e/32.png) [@Acco40](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acco40)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/balloonatics/76374/2 "2001-08-15T16:34:18Z")

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**Waverly** :

So, during the Democratic and Republican national conventions, when they drop all the balloons, would that be considered some sort of gang-bang porn to these people?

Think that’s weird? Check out clown sex. Yes, it exists.

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/balloonatics/76374/3 "2001-08-15T16:38:19Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Waverly \*  
> \*\*I’m not familiar with the decency rules of the forum, so unfortunately no links. Google if you must. \*\*

Well, here’s a [link](http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/balloonsandinflatables) that should be no problem.

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**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/balloonatics/76374/4 "2001-08-15T17:23:45Z")

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Not to mention the spontaneous orgasms at the Macy’s Thanksgiving day parade.

That link didn’t work (no access), but here is one that is innocuous enough:  
[http://www.joseyvogels.com/cgi-bin/article.pl/04-fetish/strangebedfellows](http://www.joseyvogels.com/cgi-bin/article.pl/04-fetish/strangebedfellows)

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/balloonatics/76374/5 "2001-08-15T19:35:31Z")

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I don’t have a problem with the link I put. Probably didn’t work for you due to the Teeming Millions Effect (too many people trying to access simultaneously).