Technophiliac Beat: Rollercoasters

A woman from Pennsylvania is to marry her roller coaster.

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Writes the metro UK,

She enjoys a \’satisfying\’ sexual relationship with a fairground ride – a \’magic carpet\’ themed ride named 1001 Nachts – and now plans to marry it.

The 33-year-old rides the machine 300 times a year and uses pictures of it to satisfy herself at home.

Ms Wolfe, from Pennsylvania, suffers from a condition where people develop sexual feelings towards objects.

Ms Wofe is one of a growing number of objectum-sexuals, people who experience arousal, attraction, love and commitment to innanimate objects.

How will objectum-sexuals treat emerging devices?

Will this trend grow as objects become more intelligent?

Certainly people are becoming emotionally attached to their mediating technologies.  In large part because it allows them to connect to other people, but some of this transfers to the objects themselves, in a way…

Where does the \”crack-berry\” phenomenon fit into all this?

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