From what I can deduct (I'm still new to this), the balloon enthusiasts are basically divided into two communities with little overlap: the looners (balloon fetishists) and the decorators (balloon aesthetics). I've not joined or posted there, but I ran across Balloon Chat - a forum that appears to be devoted to decorators.
Do you know of anyone who is both a looner and a decorator? Are decorators usually hostile to looners, or are many decorators largely unaware that looners even exist? I'm just curious.
On a related not, it seems that being a popper is largely intrinsic with sexual fetishism - hence the pop as "orgasm"... whereas, with non-poppers, not all of them (strictly speaking) see balloons as a sexual fetish - but are generally "obsessive" with balloons in a way that would make decorators uncomfortable. "I don't just like how balloons *look*! I also like how balloons feel/smell/taste!"
Do you know of anyone who is both a looner and a decorator? Are decorators usually hostile to looners, or are many decorators largely unaware that looners even exist? I'm just curious.
On a related not, it seems that being a popper is largely intrinsic with sexual fetishism - hence the pop as "orgasm"... whereas, with non-poppers, not all of them (strictly speaking) see balloons as a sexual fetish - but are generally "obsessive" with balloons in a way that would make decorators uncomfortable. "I don't just like how balloons *look*! I also like how balloons feel/smell/taste!"
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