Is there a way to stop a fetish?

[SAF]

I would like to stop or end my balloon fetish. Does anybody know how to stop?

[temporary123]

Re: Is there a way to stop a fetish?

The only thing that comes to my mind is redirecting your lust to something else, normal porn or whatever. In my experience it's not possible to lose it by ignoring the urges, I went months without thinking about balloons, but it seems to be hardwired and ignoring it just makes the cravings worse.

Like people addicted to drugs, you can't just quit a fetish, you have to find something else and stick to it.

[Sissylooner]

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I don’t think there is any way to stop. honestly you can walk away but you might always come back after awhile.

[Boom&Bust]

Re: Is there a way to stop a fetish?

If you were able to replace it with something you enjoyed a lot more sexually, then maybe you would lose interest in it.

Otherwise, I don't really think there is any way to stop it. I would sometimes try to stop the fetish myself, as there were times when I would feel ashamed.

But I would always come back to it, it's like it's something that's hardwired, like me being sexually attracted to women I guess.

So it seems like the best thing to do is to just accept it. It doesn't cause any harm to anyone, and a lot of people, maybe the majority of people have weird kinks.

[Common Loon]

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To me this is like a gay person asking "how do I stop being gay". It just doesn't seem to be possible.

Remember, though, that there are two things at issue here. How you feel and think —*which are automatic and you don't have much control over —*and how you act, which you do. If you want to stop doing the fetish, that's fully within your power. I myself have done so at various intervals in my life: no balloons in the house, no participating in looner forums or consuming looner media online. I made a choice to do so from time to time when I was younger. Then later, I made a choice to do those things again. There were always felt reasons for each choice.

But what never changed in all that time is that I would still think about balloons in that very special way that looners do, even when I wasn't acting on those thoughts. And after a while you figure out that these thoughts aren't unwelcome or intrusive -- they just "are". And if you've made the choice not to act on them, you learn to simply recognize them and let them pass by. Not act on them, but not resist them or judge yourself for having them. Just notice them like a neutral observer, acknowledge them to yourself, then let them go.

Most of us did not choose to develop a fetish (indeed, I wonder if it is possible at all to develop a fetish by choice). So there is no value in holding onto resentment or self-judgment for it. If acting on your fetish is problematic for you, you can certainly stop doing so, but the mental / hormonal / sexual pathways have already been primed so that the thoughts and feelings are likely to recur -- so you should also be aware that stopping the behavior will not stop the thoughts or feelings. If you can learn to be okay with that... you can be a non-practicing looner for as long as you like.

[Cho]

Re: Is there a way to stop a fetish?

Well, I personally think that there is a theoretical way to "change" your sexual desires, including orientation, fetishes and so on. However this would need extensive brain wash for years (sexual orientation) or months (months and kinks) to change human being to an extant, which has only been achieved in inhumane situations. Other than that you have the choice to either accept your kinks and try to work with it or to hate yourself for the rest of yourself.

(I personally think that such extend of brainwash should never be allowed to happen, however i think it would be able to change the core of a human, which has been proven in many inhumane experiments in the past )
(After all brainwash has been succesfull in very absurd ways, eg making people believe that there are no other humans, etc.)

[Asclepio]

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Yeah, as some users said before I think that the real answer is NO. (if you are talking about make it completely disappear, it is something that already glued to your brain. But as it seems, you can ignore it if you divert your sexual lust / desire to another type of activity, but even with that I find extremely hard to find another thing that can get your attention as good as your fetish.
I have my fetish quite present in my day to day, to the extent that even with constant sexual activity with my current partner, I still cannot help but feel a lot of desire to have sex sessions with my balloons, and being honest I cannot imagine anything that can to be the recipient of all that sexual desire that balloons produce in me.
It's as if sex with my girlfriend is different from sex with my balloons, neither replaces the other, I need both. I wish you good luck, maybe you can find some kind of psychological therapy to help you ignore the fetish, or some kind of recreational activity to help you release sexual tension.

[SirSquishy]

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I would like to stop or end my balloon fetish. Does anybody know how to stop?

I tried this once. I even threw out my entire collection of loons. That lasted about 6 weeks. I've just accepted that the fetish is hardwired into me, and I have no problem with that. It doesn't control me or my life, I control it.

Just curious, why do you want to get rid of the fetish?

[loonerlee]

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I think it(the fetish) will always be with you, I've tried in the past myself by ways of destroying all of my balloons. but I think excepting who you are is the best thing a person can do.

[lionlooner]

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Firstly, remember that no one here is a therapist or psychologist. Its worth looking up related info through google if you haven't already.

Fetishes do actually class as disorders *if* they are negatively impacting your life. For example, if you're late to work a lot because you couldn't stop playing with balloons or if you engage in risky/illegal behavior because of your fetish.

There are definitely steps you can take to lessen the impact it has on your life and maybe forget about it altogether, but its worth asking yourself if you think its negatively impacting you that much or if its just a strange quirk about yourself that you don't like.

Try not to stress too much over it. The goal would be to, ideally, think about it less and especially less when you are in the mood.

[LoonerJeff]

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I wondered the same thing for a long time. My advice - lean into it instead of away and you'll find yourslef much happier and healthier. I tried rejecting or suppressing it for years cause it is a strange fetish, but honestly - just enjoy yourself! I don't think anyone is negatively affected by looners enjoying balloons

[Evelyn]

Re: Is there a way to stop a fetish?

I would like to stop or end my balloon fetish. Does anybody know how to stop?

Good luck!
But, if you fail in your desire to stop or end your balloon fetish, just remember - so many of us tried that before. And still we are all in love with our precious beautiful balloons.
There must be a very good reason why we are created like that - with that love, that urge for balloons. Just remember: we are not doing anything wrong being as we are - we are just being ourselves

[loonlun]

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I want to add to the growing chorus of voices here, it is probably impossible to get rid of a fetish, but it is not impossible to make peace with it.
The way I see it everyone has something (or many things) that make them different from baseline normal which even adding whatever takes place behind closed doors is also pretty normal.
This fetish is just another part of you that makes you a unique individual. You shouldn't get too worried about it, most people are into something that ventures away from "normal." As long as you aren't doing balloonplay with minors, animals, or without people's full consent there's nothing to be ashamed of.
If the need to get rid of the fetish is due to someone else I want you to consider what other aspects of you they would try and get rid of next. That is a person that wants to change you, not accept or love you as you are, and that will only hurt you in the end.
I'm pretty sex positive but sometimes this fetish feels like a compulsion, or a chore. So when it feels like that, I treat it like a constant need that demands satisfying, so I ride a balloon as soon as possible to get it over with and then get on with my day unbothered by it. Maybe making it mundane like that will help? It hasn't stopped the fetish for me but it does get it over with for the day.