I saw a documentary on TLC that followed a man and explored about his experience as someone with a balloon fetish. This link is to a youtube video that he posted explaining why he has a balloon fetish. He explains that blowing up a balloon is exciting for him and climax of such excitement is the moment that the balloon pops.
The documentary follows him from Rutland, VT, where he was born and raised, to New York City where he went to his first balloon fetish party. He meets with the woman who hosts fetish parties before the event and describes his feelings of isolation with this secret that he has been concealing from friends and family that he hopes will dissipate by attending the party. In a similar role that the internet plays in the film Zoo, the balloon fetish party provides this man with a community of which he feels very much a part.
It is also interesting to note that in the youtube video he points out that as a young child he was afraid of loud noises and thus did not like balloons. However, he says, at around the age of 12 something inside him desired balloons in a sexual way. He now found them pleasurable. I think this is an interesting thing to think about and relate to our own lives. Are there things, objects, ideas, people etc. that we have disliked or been afraid of in the past but are now attracted to? Or has the opposite occurred, things we used to find pleasurable we now hate?
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