ONE man says his heart flutters when he sees a “beautiful balloon” and is opening up about his 50-year love affair with the colorful latex.
A man named Julius appeared on TLC’s My Strange Addiction to share his love and sexual obsession with balloons.
In the episode, the man says the “beautiful, soft, smooth, delicate” balloons have become “his sexual love.”
“I’ll hug it and I’ll kiss it and it will be like being in heaven,” he said.
Julius has more than 50,000 balloons in his home and claims he was a special “connection” to each one.
Like most people, Julius says he has favorites and compares it to a “guy that prefers blondes or brunettes.” He also said he sleeps in a room filled with the toys every night.
“Intellectually I know that balloons are not alive but sometimes I wonder if it is my love for them that brings them alive,” said Julius.
The origin of his love affair, according to Julius, comes from when he was hospitalized at four years old. Julius was given a blue balloon by his mother.
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However, a nurse popped the balloon later that night and Julius had cried himself to sleep. Since then, the sound of a balloon popping “devastates” him.
The nickname for people with a sexual fetish for balloons is a “looner”, according to the episode. Julius says there are two people within the looner group.
“You got the poppers that get aroused by popping balloons and you got your non-poppers,” he said. “I’m a non-popper.”
Julius says he “rescues” balloons if he feels they are in danger of popping.
“I’ll go to car dealerships and do what I call a ‘balloon rescue’,” he said. “I feel that I give them a second chance at life.”
Interestingly, Julius has a human wife but we don’t hear from her during his episode. He says that his wife thinks it’s strange but that she accepts it.
The 62-year-old says people shouldn’t be so quick to judge his sexual interest.
“There’s nothing wrong with loving balloons. It’s not dangerous and it’s not hurting anybody.”
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