Hi,
This is a somewhat unusual posting about our 'history'. First a little bit of my own 'history' though:
As so many in this forum I had quite a tough time when I first discovered the sexual aspect of balloons. On one hand it was such an incredible pleasure that I could not help doing it. On the other hand though I was completely and also painfully aware that these feelings were not within what most people (including myself - at least at the time) considered normal - neither what sex nor balloons are concerned. I was often ashamed of myself and I also to some extend worried about being 'not all well in my head'.
I searched various books about psychology, but all I ever found was a mentioning about some people being crazy about balloons (like them extremely much), but this was in a book with balloon games for kids, and it just said they didn't have to that fond of balloons to have fun with the games in the book. This was the only clue I got about somebody other than me being 'extra fond' of balloons. However nowhere the sexual aspect was mentioned.
As time went by I got more and more convinced that I was alone in the world with my rather strange feelings about balloons.
However one day I was searching the internet for a place to buy balloons, because our local party supply shop had closed down, and I stumbled upon Buster Bills site.
I still remember the words on the entrance page: 'Bet you thought you were the only one!'. Trembling all over I entered the site and read each and every little bit of information there. I was no longer alone with my balloon 'thing' It is near to impossible to put into writing what huge relief I felt, but it is not needed either, as very many here has been through exactly the same process of finding out they weren't 'the only one'.
Now to the the issue that made me write this posting:
After having found Buster Bills site my balloon 'thing' suddenly had got a name: A 'Balloon Fetish'.
This was a very important to me. I was't kind of crazy - I just had a balloon fetish, and more important so did many others - including Buster Bill himself. I just didn't know the word (term) for it, so I had to stumble across it on Buster Bills site. I know very many others have done exactly the same.
If you search Google for 'Balloon Fetish' you get about 15.7 million hits, so it certainly is a - or has become - a quite widespread term, and it has even spread into business as well. It cannot wonder that an 'industry' with photos, videos and such has developed, and not that various 'selfmade' people offer treatment as for example hypnosis. However the term has also been recognized in more serious contexts as 'just' making money (I am aware that making money is regarded as the most serious context at all by some, - but not by me) like for instance psychological research and sexology. Today it would not be very hard to find a path to 'balloon fetish', - that's for sure. It took years for me though, and I somehow had (still have) the impression that at the time Buster Bills site was if not the only site then one of very few sites where 'Balloon Fetish' was described or even mentioned at the time, and as far as I know also the only place with a thorough description of the 'phenomonen.
This made me wonder about something: I found the term Balloon Fetish on Buster Bills site, and so did many others, but where did Buster Bill find himself it? It must have come from somewhere of course. I never saw any mentioning of Balloon Fetish in books or anywhere else before finding it on Buster Bills site, so my best guess is that he came up with the term himself by combining the two well known words 'Balloon' and 'Fetish', but it might also be that I just didn't have success in searching for something about 'this with balloons' before the arrival of the internet.
He will of course know himself, but I think he probably came up with the term, - maybe because he wanted to put a name on it.
If this is the case he is even more of a pioneer than many people (including myself) has realized, and he deserves immense credit - as well as for all the other work with which he has contributed to lots and lots of looners all over the world.
Some might find it pretty obvious to 'simply' put together the word 'balloon' and the word 'fetish', and with the great wisdom of hindsight it also seems like an obvious thing to do. However thinking a little carefully about things it becomes much less obvious:
You need to get the thought that this with balloons has similarities with a fetish, and taken into account that fetishes were not so well known at the time - I myself had heard the word, but it never ever crossed my mind, that what I felt about balloons had anything to do with it - it was not by far as obvious as it seems today.
I am quite curious about whether it was actually Buster Bill, who gave out 'thing' its name, or if he found it somewhere - and if so, where he stumbled across it.
I would love to hear what others think about the issue - and of course also to know who 'gave us our common name' - or where it came from.
Thank you for reading my somewhat unusual posting'
Sincerely
Susie
This is a somewhat unusual posting about our 'history'. First a little bit of my own 'history' though:
As so many in this forum I had quite a tough time when I first discovered the sexual aspect of balloons. On one hand it was such an incredible pleasure that I could not help doing it. On the other hand though I was completely and also painfully aware that these feelings were not within what most people (including myself - at least at the time) considered normal - neither what sex nor balloons are concerned. I was often ashamed of myself and I also to some extend worried about being 'not all well in my head'.
I searched various books about psychology, but all I ever found was a mentioning about some people being crazy about balloons (like them extremely much), but this was in a book with balloon games for kids, and it just said they didn't have to that fond of balloons to have fun with the games in the book. This was the only clue I got about somebody other than me being 'extra fond' of balloons. However nowhere the sexual aspect was mentioned.
As time went by I got more and more convinced that I was alone in the world with my rather strange feelings about balloons.
However one day I was searching the internet for a place to buy balloons, because our local party supply shop had closed down, and I stumbled upon Buster Bills site.
I still remember the words on the entrance page: 'Bet you thought you were the only one!'. Trembling all over I entered the site and read each and every little bit of information there. I was no longer alone with my balloon 'thing' It is near to impossible to put into writing what huge relief I felt, but it is not needed either, as very many here has been through exactly the same process of finding out they weren't 'the only one'.
Now to the the issue that made me write this posting:
After having found Buster Bills site my balloon 'thing' suddenly had got a name: A 'Balloon Fetish'.
This was a very important to me. I was't kind of crazy - I just had a balloon fetish, and more important so did many others - including Buster Bill himself. I just didn't know the word (term) for it, so I had to stumble across it on Buster Bills site. I know very many others have done exactly the same.
If you search Google for 'Balloon Fetish' you get about 15.7 million hits, so it certainly is a - or has become - a quite widespread term, and it has even spread into business as well. It cannot wonder that an 'industry' with photos, videos and such has developed, and not that various 'selfmade' people offer treatment as for example hypnosis. However the term has also been recognized in more serious contexts as 'just' making money (I am aware that making money is regarded as the most serious context at all by some, - but not by me) like for instance psychological research and sexology. Today it would not be very hard to find a path to 'balloon fetish', - that's for sure. It took years for me though, and I somehow had (still have) the impression that at the time Buster Bills site was if not the only site then one of very few sites where 'Balloon Fetish' was described or even mentioned at the time, and as far as I know also the only place with a thorough description of the 'phenomonen.
This made me wonder about something: I found the term Balloon Fetish on Buster Bills site, and so did many others, but where did Buster Bill find himself it? It must have come from somewhere of course. I never saw any mentioning of Balloon Fetish in books or anywhere else before finding it on Buster Bills site, so my best guess is that he came up with the term himself by combining the two well known words 'Balloon' and 'Fetish', but it might also be that I just didn't have success in searching for something about 'this with balloons' before the arrival of the internet.
He will of course know himself, but I think he probably came up with the term, - maybe because he wanted to put a name on it.
If this is the case he is even more of a pioneer than many people (including myself) has realized, and he deserves immense credit - as well as for all the other work with which he has contributed to lots and lots of looners all over the world.
Some might find it pretty obvious to 'simply' put together the word 'balloon' and the word 'fetish', and with the great wisdom of hindsight it also seems like an obvious thing to do. However thinking a little carefully about things it becomes much less obvious:
You need to get the thought that this with balloons has similarities with a fetish, and taken into account that fetishes were not so well known at the time - I myself had heard the word, but it never ever crossed my mind, that what I felt about balloons had anything to do with it - it was not by far as obvious as it seems today.
I am quite curious about whether it was actually Buster Bill, who gave out 'thing' its name, or if he found it somewhere - and if so, where he stumbled across it.
I would love to hear what others think about the issue - and of course also to know who 'gave us our common name' - or where it came from.
Thank you for reading my somewhat unusual posting'
Sincerely
Susie
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