Sunday, January 03, 2010

Women are made to be loved, not understood. -Oscar Wilde

Needing a man is like needing a parachute. 
If he isn't there the first time you need him, 
chances are you won't be needing him again...


Men and women relationships can definitely be complicated at times or for some maybe it's all the time.
So maybe that is the reason why... 

Woman 'married' to Berlin Wall for 29 years


Eija-Riitta Berliner-Mauer, 54, whose surname means Berlin Wall in German, wed the concrete structure in 1979 after being diagnosed with a condition called Objectum-Sexuality. Mrs Berliner-Mauer, whose fetish is said to have its roots in childhood, claimed she fell in love with the structure when she first saw it on television when she was seven. She began collecting "his" pictures and saving up for visits. On her sixth trip in 1979 they tied the knot before a handful of guests. While she remains a virgin with humans, she insists she has a full, loving relationship with the wall. Mrs Berliner-Mauer, who lives in Liden, northern Sweden, said: "I find long, slim things with horizontal lines very sexy. "The Great Wall of China's attractive, but he’s too thick – my husband is sexier."

While the rest of mankind rejoiced when the Wall, erected by the Soviets in 1961 to halt an exodus from East to West Berlin, was largely torn down in 1989, its "wife" was horrified. She's never been back and now keeps models depicting "his" former glory. She said: “What they did was awful. They mutilated my husband." She is said to have shifted her affections to a nearby garden fence. Objectum-Sexual or objectophilia is feelings of love, attraction, arousal, and commitment for a particular object. The mere thought of a relationship with an actual human being seems ludicrous. - Richard Alleyne 

And Another story...

Married To The Eiffel Tower


Erika La Tour Eiffel, 37, a former soldier who lives in San Francisco, has been in love with objects before. Her first infatuation was with Lance, a bow that helped her to become a world-class archer, she is fond of the Berlin Wall and she claims to have a physical relationship with a piece of fence she keeps in her bedroom. But it is the Eiffel Tower she has pledged to love, honour and obey in an intimate ceremony attended by a handful of friends. She has changed her name legally to reflect the bond.

She revisits the massive structure as part of a documentary on Five on Objectum-Sexual women. There are around 40 people in the world who have declared themselves OS, all of them women and many of them also Asperger's Syndrome sufferers. The OS term was first coined by Eija-Riitta Berliner-Mauer, a 54-year-old woman who has been "married" to the Berlin Wall for 29 years. Before returning to Paris for her first wedding anniversary, Mrs La Tour Eiffel visits the Berlin Wall, where her affection for what many Germans see as a symbol of repression leads to an uncomfortable encounter with a member of the staff at the Checkpoint Charlie museum.

"I just don't understand how some people can bring someone into the world like a child - an object - and then not love them," she said. She explained that she feels an affinity with the wall: "I am the Berlin Wall. Hate me, try to break me apart, but I will still be here, standing." She blames her upbringing for her condition. She claims to have been molested by her half-brother and abandoned by her parents to various foster homes.

"If I am the way I am today because of everything that happened to me, then I'm alright with it," she said. "I wouldn't change who I am now." Jerry Brooker, from New York State, one of the psychotherapists interviewed for the documentary, said that OS women were motivated by a need for control.

"Someone who falls in love with objects can control that relationship on their own terms," he said. "Their objects will not let them down. That is extremely attractive for a person who is otherwise often desperately lonely." The Woman Who Married the Eiffel Tower is on Five at 10pm on June 4. - Aislinn Simpson

Have you ever had a crush on objects?  They call this as 'objectum sexual', people who share emotional and sexual bonds with inanimate objects. Some even marry them. Click here or official site for 'OS' to read more about 'objectum sexual'. Somehow I gotta say, this maybe caused by hormones, psychological damage or biological problem in a person. But I hope there are none of them who chose that way due to post-traumatic or phobia in relationship with men.

Nail it deep in brain:
The perfect man: smokes not, drinks not, flirts not, exists not.

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism.
But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another.
Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid.
There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.  
-Margaret Fuller

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

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syazhillmy said...

thanks for reading :)
the quotes? sure, by all means. it's for everybody to think about :P

silent reader said...

weird but who knows what they hv been suffering of. pitty them. i love this post so much! thanks for sharing, dear!

syazhillmy said...

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