Reminds me of the movie A Dirty Shame by John Waters. It was about all these weird fetishes people had in the town, behind doors. It's hard to explain, but it's really funny if you are comfortable with sexual stuff.

I really think he should've had this one in there.

I saw the documentary about these women which was screened (a repeat) recently on TV. Picket fences will never again look like nice, innocent objects. I've seen some weird TV shows and movies, but this takes the cake.

I was wondering, do the women who are sexually attracted to inanimate objects also have ordinal linguistic personification (OLP)? OLP is not a sexual thing, is is a type of synaesthesia in which concepts such as numbers and letters of the alphabet are involuntarily thought of as possessing genders and personalities.

The Eiffel tower is like a giant boner.

This is so weird. I don't have an issue with it, nobody's being hurt so it's not a problem in my opinion. I do not understand it at all though, I am consequently insanely curious and having trouble focussing on anything else.

To give an object commonly believed to be inanimate feelings and emotions and to have a romantic attachment to it... how does one decide what objects have feelings? I mean if they all do, how does one cope with, for example, dropping a glass?

I don't get it, my head's buzzing. I want to understand.

It's fetishism taken to a whole new level. It's more common in India, where people being married to object is more common.

http://www.thefrisky.com/post/246-5-peop...bjects/P0/

umm well the match an inamamate object with a forum member thread i made was for humerous purposes only. i would never marry my pair of adorable black patent leather diana ferrari kitten heels  with an adorable suede leather bow thing EVER....

For forumites who can get to London for 23 May...


Please see below for details of an upcoming BIGS (Birkbeck Interdisciplinary Gender and Sexuality Studies) Postgraduate Group film screening and panel discussion.

All welcome

Date: Monday 23rd May

Time: 18:30 - 20:30

Venue: Birkbeck College, Malet Street Building, Room B34
This event is free. To reserve a place email bigs dot postgrads at gmail dot com


BIGS Postgraduate Group Film Screening and Panel Discussion

Married to the Eiffel Tower (2008) by Agnieszka Piotrowska

"Beautifully shot and fascinating - the film has reminded me why I like watching television." The Observer


Piotrowska's acclaimed film, which has been screened at numerous festivals and in more than 20 countries around the world, depicts the stories of women who love objects and not people. A film about tolerance and generosity and about the will to survive and seek love somewhere in the world, even when other people seem to offer nothing by hostility, Piotrowska's film deals with the complicated identities and intimate relationships of people who identify as "objectum sexuals." The film received a Special Prize at the Extraordinary Bodies Festival (2010).

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with respondents Mandy Merck (Royal Holloway), Alex Dymock (University of Reading) and Anouchka Grose (Psychoanalyst) and a Q&A with the film's director Agnieszka Piotrowska.


About the Panelists:

Mandy Merck is a Professor of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. A former editor of the film and television journal Screen, she has published widely in the area of cultural studies, particularly on psychoanalysis, film theory and feminist and queer theory. Most recently she co-edited a collection of essays on Shulamith Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex, entitled Further Adventures in the Dialectics of Sex (Palgrave, 2010).

Alex Dymock is working on her PhD, "Abject Intimacies: Disgust, Sexuality and UK Law," at the University of Reading. She holds a University of Reading Social Sciences Studentship and has presented her work in conferences across the UK.

Anouchka Grose is a psychoanalyst and writer. She is a member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research. She is also the author of No More Silly Love Songs: A realist's guide to romance (Portobello, 2010).

About the Director:

Agnieszka Piotrowska has worked as a documentary filmmaker for twenty years. Her films have been nominated for numerous awards, including three Emmy nominations, and a BAFTA nomination for her Channel 4 documentary, Love Hurts (2000). Piotrowska is also a PhD student in the Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck College, working on Psychoanalysis and Ethics in Documentary Film.

"Confident" wasn't the first word that sprung to mind when I saw Amy in the documentary last night.

Suddenly, out of **** nowhere a wild Blast From The Past appears.

What Will you do?

>Attempt to cover up     >Use an Excuse
>Make wisecracks          >Run

I've always had a real attraction to State Capitals (the building, not the city - that's Capitols) and County Court Houses in the US, where I live.

There was a book several years ago I wish I'd bought with pictures and histories of all the County Court Houses in Texas (254 of them).

But it's necessarily platonic. It's takes a lot of planning to get a colossal sandstone building off by itself for romantic purposes.

Aren't nuns married to Jesus? That's pretty wacky, if you think about it.

But the West Virginia State Capitol - pure hotness!

Yea, I too, have OS. I don't think I have Asperger's (is there an easy way to know?) but I am in love with an "object" and I don't want to change.
If people can be married, homosexuals can marry, why not Objectum Sexuals?

at least give me some 'rights' for our Union.

I am welcome to get emails from people.

I have a strange attraction to the Mark Twain Cabin.  It is not much for looks but it is very literary and can engage me for hours.  

Ummm....Maybe that was too much information.