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Ballon Sexual Attraction

This month’s interview is with  Kris, a thoughtful, highly intelligent Australian woman.  She is what is known as a Looner, a person who is erotically attracted to blow up balloons; the term ‘Looner’ coming from the ending of the word balloon.
The Looner community is quite private and low-key, with men generally outnumbering women.

Note: For those who are unfamiliar with the balloon community  it has nothing to do with children. This misconception arises from people making an association between balloons and childhood activities.  Balloon fetishists are interested in using balloons for adult purposes with and by consenting adults only.

Q: Kris, can you firstly tell us a little about yourself: for example your age group, if you are married or single, have children and what sort of industry you work in?

A: Sure, I’m in my mid 20′s and single. I work in academia, and my field is neuroscience. I would describe my sexual orientation as asexual, but questioning. I think this is because I basically require balloons for sexual attraction.

Q: The Balloon Fetish is not well known, in fact when I was advertising that I was to do this interview a well established professional Dominatrix asked me what it was. Can you tell us a little about what being attracted to balloons means to you?

A: That’s interesting, although I don’t think ‘balloon fetish’ is as big a thing like for example BDSM or feet. These things seem to have a culture around them. I suppose balloons do too, especially with the proliferation of the internet. We do have our little looner community on forums and social media sites. However as you know, almost anything can be a fetish, although some things are fetishized more than others.
For me, I am sexually attracted to latex balloons. It’s strange using the word ‘attracted’ because balloons are not people and it makes it sound like a sexual orientation. Basically, balloons turn me on, especially when they’re being sat on, being squeezed, stepped on and they’re being popped that way. Something about the way the balloon’ shape distorts and becomes more transparent as the latex stretches is really arousing. Others are attracted to different facets of balloons. It might be types of balloons (e.g. Mylar only) or specific activities e.g. b2p (blow to pop), or s2p (sit to pop), or not popping them at all!

Q: Are you a Popper or Non-Popper and can you explain what the difference is to our audience?

A: I’m a popper, or perhaps more accurately, a semi popper. Basically, a popper is someone who likes popping balloons and a non-popper does not. It’s probably the biggest sub classification of the fetish. A popper usually finds popping sexually arousing and is considered ‘the main event’. They play with balloons with the intent to pop them. Some poppers have a fear of balloons popping, but they find it arousing so they do it anyway.
A non popper would probably prefer to play with balloons in ways that do not involve popping the balloon. Some non poppers have a fear of balloons popping. Some adamantly dislike it, calling it a waste. Others just find the non popping activity more sexually arousing and are rather indifferent to popping.
I’m personally afraid of balloons popping. I have a huge startle reflex and sudden loud noises startle me easily. It is strange, I have been popping balloons for a long time, and I still haven’t acclimatised to it. And I actually think this is a good thing, because I am convinced it is this fear which also makes balloons so sexually stimulating. I love the feeling of a balloon about to burst under me. Yet at the same time, I’m nervous. I find watching balloons being popped much better than non popping videos.

Q: What is your ideal and most fun way to spend time with a balloon?

A: First I start with some ‘balloon foreplay’. This involves blowing up a few balloons. I then squeeze them into the ground/bed and watch them distort. I imagine how good it would feel to sit on it. I squeeze the balloon in various ways using different body parts. I might lie on it, but avoiding contact with my genitals. The idea is to do this until I can’t stand it anymore. When this happens, I ‘ride’ the balloon. As the name implies in a sexual context, this means straddling the balloon, putting your weight on it and bouncing/grinding on it. My favourite way is putting the balloon on an armchair or that type of support rather than a flat surface. It allows me to put more weight onto the balloon. While doing this, I’ll also attempt to pop some balloons by hand or pop the balloon under me (depending on its size). A pop can bring me close to orgasm if I’m aroused enough. Also, the more aroused, the more ‘brave’ I am with popping the balloon, so it becomes a positive feedback loop. Eventually I get to a stage where the sexual pleasure totally overwhelms the fear and all I want to do is pop that balloon. I won’t last long in this stage as I’ll have an orgasm.

Q: What is your favourite balloon colour and do you have a favourite size?

A: My favourite type of colour would be the translucent kind. I like clear, but now I am starting to prefer translucent orange and yellow. I think that’s because I’ve just had some really good experiences with these colours. My favourite size is 16”. It’s the perfect size for riding. Any smaller and I can’t see the balloon under me very well (plus its shape distorts); bigger and I feel like I have less control over the way I ride it and 16″ just seems to feel better.

Q: I noticed you describe yourself as asexual, meaning you do not feel yourself drawn to having a sexual relationship with men or women. If you did find yourself drawn to having a relationship with another person and they couldn’t accept that balloons were desirable to you, would it be a deal breaker?

A: If I found myself drawn to a sexual relationship, I would no longer consider myself asexual. Sexuality is fluid and it can be difficult to label like that. I really use ‘asexual’ to describe my past behaviour and to potentially predict future behaviour, but circumstances will not always be the same. But lets say that there is there case of a sexual relationship, I’m not sure. If I have an exclusive paraphillia (require balloons for arousal), then unfortunately it will be a deal breaker. But for this reason, I don’t seek out relationships in the first place. However I do not have emotional attachment to balloons nor does the fetish define my identity, so I’d be willing to change *if* it were to cause problems.
If the relationship was non sexual, then my sexual activity should not be a concern for them. Although I understand this is reality where should not, would not and could not, do not always apply. Again, it would depend on the reasoning and what other qualities this hypothetical person has. I can understand that people can be easily disgusted by ‘deviant’ sexual behaviour or use it as grounds for sexual harassment, so currently I just don’t talk about it with people I know because my sexual behaviour is none of their business.
Long story short – it would probably be a deal breaker for them, not me, because they are the one can’t accept my behaviours.

Q: Many folks who enjoy balloons are also drawn to inflatable toys, for example a ride on/ blow-up toy for the pool, or a lilo (swim-mat). What are your thoughts with regard to inflatables?

A: To me, inflatables are like second rate balloons. While I am also attracted to inflatables, they are not something I seek out as much as I do balloons. The ‘sexy’ thing about balloons is the popping, and that they are a thin latex which stretches more. I think I was more attracted to inflatables when I was younger, as pool toys and beach balls were like ‘safe’ balloons as they don’t pop like balloons. I even like inflating regular plastic bags, but that’s even less sexy.

Q: Have you ever given up balloons for a period of time, and if so how long?

A: No, not deliberately. I play with balloons when I feel like it, but often discretely and I can’t always do exactly what I want (see ideal session question). My interest in playing with balloons will depend on what stage of my menstrual cycle I’m in as to how ‘in the mood’ I am and depending on that, there are times I couldn’t care less about balloons. If I can’t have balloons but I am really horny, then looking at videos with other people playing with them is fine, or just fantasizing.

Q: What does Kris the sister, friend, girl in the next office, like to do in her leisure time,  if balloons are excluded?

A: What leisure time? Joking, I spend a lot of time online and  I play games, the main one being World of Warcraft. I have been playing regularly for several years now! Unfortunately there are so many games and so little time. And I do plenty of the ‘usual’ stuff, watch YouTube videos, blogging, etc. I’m not a very social person, my main socialising is done online or at work. Weekdays most of my time is spent at work, and the weekends with the family, or maybe catch up with some friends once in a while.

Q: If you had one week and unlimited money and the freedom to do as you please, what would you do?

A: Visit as many (needy) people as possible and see how much money I could hand out. Sorry, I’m bad at these questions. If a genie gave me three wishes, I would wish for unlimited wishes.
If this is supposed to be a one week holiday, I’m not sure what I’d do. Something fun, like a resort to myself with some friends, but I don’t know what. I don’t really have any desire to travel anywhere specific, so the destination doesn’t matter. Might as well be right here in Melbourne for all I care. Actually, I would like to have a ‘balloon orgy’ in that type of place – a large group of people playing with balloons, although I am a little introverted. But I think I would like a large group (counter intuitive, yes I know) where there is no special attention being paid to me. I can join in where I like and walk away where I like and there is no social awkwardness or anything.
Or perhaps I could do a really expensive one week research project? If that were the case, I would make liberal use of several PET scanners to look at the function of the hormone and its receptors that I am studying in humans. Ha, I’d probably stuff the research and start playing around with it myself, looking at different receptor distributions in my own brain. And probably turn radioactive lol.
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