People came up with many ways to have sex, but they didn’t stop and went further: they figured out what else they could do with it. And the things that turn some people on are sometimes amazing!

Writer Nicky Davis-Feinbloom says she first met a man named Giorgio at a sex party. When she stepped on a crumpled carpet lying near the bar, he looked at her …. Overcoming the shock, Niki leaned over and said hello, and the man replied that he didn’t mind being attacked again, if, of course, Niki herself was ready for this.

At the end of the event, the carpet man undressed, and he and Nicky started talking. The 50-year-old man said that while other kids wanted to grow up to be firefighters or doctors, he always wanted to be a carpet. And he walked (or lay?) in this direction: in children’s games he liked to depict rugs that they walk on. Now it’s serious: Giorgio has a whole schedule of events where he can immerse himself in his favorite role – sometimes up to five nights a week. It takes a lot of time, it takes two hours to drive around New York each way, but it makes him happy.

Later, Nicky found out that Giorgio was not the only person with such a fetish: there were five other carpet people on the FetLife social network. Not so much to consider it common, but enough to not feel alone in your passion.

Nicky is not only a writer, but also a sex teacher, and she is lucky to meet unusual people. She met another such person in New Orleans during a bike ride. It all started with a conversation, ended with a joint drink. A new acquaintance who introduced himself as Philip, having learned about one of the girl’s specialties, spoke about his fetish: he liked it when girls farted on him.

For the first time this happened at school, when the girl, who was climbing the stairs in front of Philip, loudly let out gases. She looked very embarrassed, and the guy spent the rest of the day excited, remembering the smell with delight. Living with such a fetish, which is actually pretty harmless (hey, we get that in every other comedy!), turned out to be hard: every time Philippe tried to talk about it, they only laughed at him – and he felt like a “weird creepy fart “.

However, lately, Philip says, it has become easier: after communicating with other people who were not shy about their oddities, he also learned to talk about his fetish more openly.

Nathaniel from Arkansas has a serious relationship with his car Chase (and the video about it has 13 million views). Nathaniel looks after Chase, they spend a lot of time together, go on dates and even have sex. As Nathaniel explains, it’s quite possible, it just “takes a long time to get used to each other.” Well, it’s like two people.

Nathaniel was even called to the TLC show My Strange Addictions, where he admitted to having an “emotional and sexual relationship” with a red Chevrolet Monte Carlo to his father. Everything did not go very smoothly: Nathaniel’s dad immediately decided that he himself was to blame for everything, he paid little attention to the child. As a result, the son had to convince him that the relationship with Chase had nothing to do with the fact that the parent did not go to baseball games with Nathaniel.

Erika Labri saw the Eiffel Tower for the first time in 2004 and immediately fell in love with it. In 2007, they got married: of course, the marriage had no legal basis, but for Erica it was the real thing. After the incident, journalists drew attention to the girl: a film “Married to the Eiffel Tower” was made about her.

Nothing good came of it. Erica did not like that the whole tape revolved around the sexual side of her affection: too much in the film they talked about the girl’s possible childhood traumas and her unsuccessful sexual experience. In addition, because of the documentary coming out, relations with friends and family collapsed: they could not accept the girl’s unusual affection.

Labri is not the first to marry an architectural structure: in 1979, Swedish Eija Riita married the Berlin Wall. Riita also coined the term objectum sexual (objectophilia), which denoted the sexual attraction of people to inanimate objects. Thanks to Aya and the Objectum Sexual Internationale community for people with such fetishes. It is now led by Erika.

“I think OS would be better received if people realized how harmless they are,” she says. “We are not like everyone else, but we are harmless.”

You can list sexual fetishes for a long time: formicophiles launch insects into their shorts, agalmatophiles are delighted with mannequins, zoomythophiles excite thoughts about sex with dragons, mermaids and trolls. And if you understand that your addictions stand out from the rest, like the Eiffel Tower on the Champ de Mars, then here are some tips that will come in handy.

Remember that if your tastes differ from those familiar to society, this does not mean that they are bad. As long as you do not violate the principle of consent, and your fetish does not harm anyone, you have nothing to reproach. Consider it part of your identity and a trait that makes you unique.

Be smart about who you talk to about this. Not everyone is able to understand and accept what they consider strange. But such people are sure to be found: after all, there are at least five carpet people.

Respect your partner’s boundaries. If he does not like your fetish, do not impose it, do not try to push: your fantasies are not a reason for coercion and violence. There is nothing wrong with keeping a fetish solely for yourself and your own fantasies. In addition, it often happens that something excites only in theory, but in practice everything looks much more boring.

Find people with a similar fetish. And it is not at all necessary for its realization: sometimes it is enough to understand that you are not alone in your desire. However, looking for partners among people who share your tastes is also a good strategy.

Don’t be afraid! The man-carpet is happy when they walk on it. Erica was made happy by her marriage to the Eiffel Tower (at least before the intervention of journalists). We only live once, and instead of breaking ourselves, it’s worth finding a balance between other people’s boundaries and being true to our own desires. However, this advice is for everyone, not just people with weird sexual fetishes.