Objects of Desire
How time flies when you are having fun. Once more our Loose Blogging consortium of Anu, Ashok, Conrad, Gaelikaa, Ginger, Judy, Magpie 11, Maria, Ramana and I, well those of us not on holiday or distracted by the calls of work, study or family concerns, turn our thoughts to the topic for the week, chosen today by Magpie 11. [I wonder who had the bright idea of inviting him to the inner circle:?: ;) How does he think of these topics? There is a touch of the naughty schoolboy about him! :lol:]
My/An (inanimate) Object of Desire
I plain don’t have one!
I was intending to stop right here! Nothing to add on the subject.
But then thanks to Hailey at Coffee Helps I discovered a winding road to desire for inanimate objects.
No. Not for me.
Sit back and I will tell all…..
A British scientist claims humans and cyborgs will tie the knot in the not too distant future. Artificial intelligence researcher David Levy was awarded a PhD by a Dutch university for his thesis, Intimate Relationships With Artificial Partners. He believes marriages to robots will become common.
The thesis examines changing attitudes towards the meaning of marriage and the development of robotics.
He says in the past that people only showed affection for other humans, but that this has now expanded to include pets and even robotic dogs. This trend will eventually lead to humans loving sophisticated robots, Mr Levy argues. He also claimed attitudes to different sexual practices had become more liberal. He was awarded his PhD at the University of Maastricht.
Get ready to say ‘I do’ to R2-D2, because robots are going to be the perfect marriage material.
Marriage made where?
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True love can take many forms. In this case, it has taken the form of a Korean man falling in love with, and eventually marrying, a large pillow with a picture of a woman on it.
Lee Jin-gyu fell for his ‘dakimakura’ - a kind of large, huggable pillow from Japan, often with a picture of a popular anime character printed on the side.
In Lee’s case, his beloved pillow has an image of Fate Testarossa, from the ‘magical girl’ anime series Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha.
Now the 28-year-old otaku (a Japanese term that roughly translates to somewhere between ‘obsessive’ and ‘nerd’) has wed the pillow in a special ceremony, after fitting it out with a wedding dress for the service in front of a local priest. Their nuptials were eagerly chronicled by the local media.
Kissing the Bride
‘He is completely obsessed with this pillow and takes it everywhere,’ said one friend.
‘They go out to the park or the funfair where it will go on all the rides with him. Then when he goes out to eat he takes it with him and it gets its own seat and its own meal,’ they added.
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Finally there is the tale of Amy Wolfe, She enjoys a ’satisfying’ sexual relationship with a fairground ride - a ‘magic carpet’ themed ride named 1001 Nachts - and now plans to marry it. The 33-year-old rides the machine 300 times a year and uses pictures of it to satisfy herself at home.
Ms Wolfe, from Pennsylvania, suffers from a condition where people develop sexual feelings towards objects. It’s a fairly long-distance relationship, as she lives 130km (80 miles) away from the Knoebels Amusement Park ride.
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Well now, I am not really so crazy after all. Give me a Toyboy any day! 
** All information and pictures taken from Metro.co.uk
bikehikebabe said,
March 19, 2010 at 3:37 pm
A robot for a husband isn’t a bad idea. You could program (programme-Irish no?) the robot to be exactly what you need. I’ve been training my husband all these years & it hasn’t taken yet. He’s “his own man”. Man is the key word. I used to think it was just he, (Him is incorrect here.) but found out ALL men are different, mentally speaking, from women.
“Viva la difference!” I think that was meant for the physical part.
Geri Atric said,
March 19, 2010 at 3:39 pm
I have heard of ‘pillow talk’, but marrying the thing (?) that’s just plain wierd!
Let’s hope he doesn’t do what the late, great Tommy Cooper once joked about.
Tommy: ‘Dreamed I was eating a 10 lb. marshmellow last night. Woke up this morning and my pillow was gone!’
As for the ’satisfying sexual relationship’ with the fairground ride - OMG! Words fail me…..
Rummuser said,
March 19, 2010 at 4:27 pm
I have been on a sabatical from my computer the last three days and what a way to get back to it. I am laughing so much that I find it difficult to type. Thank you Grannymar for this truly out of the box post.
Maynard said,
March 19, 2010 at 6:31 pm
I hope this guy with the pillow wife, laundries it at least once a week.
Phew!!!!!!!!!!!!
gaelikaa said,
March 19, 2010 at 7:06 pm
Reminds me of a song which was a top ten hit back in the seventies called “Automatic Lover”. “Nothing to caress, not a hand to hold, I don’t need his touch because his body is cold”. I used to laugh at this along with my friends. I can’t believe this actually, like, goes on!
Ginger said,
March 19, 2010 at 8:22 pm
Ok. So why has no one used the word “bizarre” here? Seriously. I’m a little wigged out by the pillow marriage, mostly because I can’t think of how the nuptuals might be consummated. Wait. Say nothing. I am now wigged out by my own comment.
The rollercoaster girl probably was standing in line at the park (back in 1988) when she said to her younger brother, “I love this ride!”
His reply, as is common, was, “Then why don’t you marry it?”
And then, “Ok, I will.”
Probably the whole thing has been taken too far..
Grannymar said,
March 19, 2010 at 8:26 pm
BHB - I think a robot would be cold comfort.
Geri - I think I should stick with my Toyboys.
Ramana - Welcome back. Like you I have no great desires left to achieve, but needed homework to hand in for Teacher magpie!
Grannymar said,
March 19, 2010 at 8:29 pm
Maynard - I am trying not to think about the details!
Gaelikaa - The world is a strange place.
Ginger - That is one explanation.
Nancy said,
March 20, 2010 at 3:45 am
Oh, GM, How did you know I married a robot from outer space?
I met him after he made a fiery landing in his spaceship right into my back garden!
I was instantly attracted to him and asked his name and where he was from..
He bowed and said “Madam, I’m O dor from Uranus”
I ask you, who could resist?
Magpie11 said,
March 20, 2010 at 1:13 pm
Isn’t it interesting how my attempt to keep the Sexual connotations out of this thread have fallen flat?
Bizarre? Devious, I call it!
And robot (machine) “lovers” for women were invented long ago, as a potential cure for “hysteria”.
nick said,
March 20, 2010 at 2:15 pm
There’s nowt so queer as folk, especially in the sexual arena. Surely someone must have asked, “And does anyone know of any just impediment why these persons should not be joined together in holy matrimony?”
Er yes, one of them’s a pillow….
Now excuse me for a while, me and this chintz cushion have something to do upstairs….
Grannymar said,
March 20, 2010 at 2:22 pm
Nancy - I don;t like the sound of him!
Magpie - I wrote about inanimate objects
I certainly would have no desire for them…. but it takes all kinds.
Nick - ‘There’s nowt so queer as folk’ was a well loved saying of my late MIL. I wonder what she would think of the stories above?
Now you behave yourself with Jenny’s good chintz cushion!
Baino said,
March 20, 2010 at 9:44 pm
How odd that someone can marry their pillow but a gay couple are not given the same privilege? It’s a weird world alright. As for loving an inanimate object? I’m very fond of my leaf blower but I wouldn’t go that far! Yep, gimme a toyboy anyday! Got any to share?
Grannymar said,
March 20, 2010 at 10:50 pm
Baino - Hop on a plane and come to Galway with over 350 attending we are bound to find one for you!
Ashok said,
March 22, 2010 at 6:50 pm
One of the characters from Boston Legal had objectophilia and those were a set of interesting stories. I can always rely on you to become a more learned person Grannymar
Grannymar said,
March 22, 2010 at 8:22 pm
Ashok - The were unusual stories, but none were pursuits I would wish to adopt.