My Car is My Lover

[rp2813]

That is the title of a program on BBC America that I just finished watching. While not all that graphic, it was highly suggestive, and the two men featured weren't shy about advising how they really feel about their cars.

If anyone here feels like they're not normal for being interested in appliances, this show will fix that for you.

 

[toggleswitch2]

Isn't a car a huge Freudian / phallic symbol?

My grandfather advised me to stay away from them ...cars...while I was a student. That is very easy to do in NYC in that one does not need a car.

"It's like a girfriend /wife."

All you do is put time and money into it, devote yourself to it. They need constant attention, maintenance, all you do is worry about them. Then, when you need them most, WHAM they become unreliable.

Al least I think he was talking (only) about cars............

 

[rp2813]

The interesting thing about both men on the show is that they admit to not being physically attracted to women. The one guy is still a kid in his 20's and even said he's not gay, but also admitted that he's not into women either. I suspect he'd be willing to allow another male "passenger" to join him in "tag teaming" his car, though.

 

[toggleswitch2]

I love wathching the Brit series "How clean is your House". Some the guys shown obsess over their cars and clean it basically with a toothbrush and have every cleaner known to mankind for it, yet their homes ("women's work") are pig sties (stys?).

If you can (desire to, actually) figure out how to clean one, you can figure our how to clean the other.

 

[paulc]

I saw that TV show

Plus the one on women who loved man made structures. Us Humans are a complex bunch! While I find these programmes interesting there is alway the thought that the programme makers maybe thinking " let's make a show about these wierdos".

Human sexuality is a huge spectrum and as long as it is not harmful to others then you can only wish they find happiness in what they do. We all need a little love in our lives.

 

[rp2813]

Mechophiles

I agree entirely. To each his own. If a car can get you off, far be it from me to tell you it's wrong or that you're sick. Men all over the U.S.A. are dealing with their inadequacies by substituting their cars for cox. I feel sorry for all of those little guys whose feet can barely reach the pedals on their monster trucks.

They used the term "mechophile" to describe the men who are interested in machines. So is that what we all are here? At first I thought it was an interesting term, but the sensationalism started to influence things as the program progressed and they applied an almost sexual offender type of spin to it, and it no longer was the favorable term as which it began. That doesn't mean we can't still apply it to more "normal" people like us, though. LOL!

 

[rapunzel]

Fetishism!

That is the term generally used to describe people's erotic fixation on objects, bodyparts etc. A lot of people are fetishists of some shape or form. This, I guess is a little more unusual, perhaps - then again, considering how obsessed some men are with their cars, perhaps not. I guess having sex with your car negates all the possible pitfalls that usually come into play when doing it with other humans.

 

[panthera]

Given

That this sex hurts nobody, doesn't result in new red-nex every nine months, doesn't spread disease and, best of all, has finally provided us with the definitive answer on how to get protein based stains out of leather and cloth upholstery, I think it's a good thing.

Tho', yes, I strongly suspect most of these guys are sailing their barges pretty fast down de-nial when it comes to their being gay. Fits, tho' - anal retentive obsession with cleanliness is a queenly virtue.

 

[toggleswitch2]

~Fits, tho' - anal retentive obsession with cleanliness is a queenly virtue.

Actually,it's ok for everyone to be neat and clean and orgainized; it doesn't define one as a queen.

Reaction-formation defense mechanism? After all, pretty much all of society paints queens as "dirty" (as a bad thing!)

 

[rp2813]

I can appreciate a man with a fetish. The one older guy they featured is a bit of a creepy character and it's clear he enjoys being perceived as such. He's over the top and out of hand. The younger guy was completely "normal," not bad looking for only being in his 20's and still developing, and I think much more grounded with his lust for cars and his rationalizations for it.

People have sex in cars all the time. Having sex *with* a car isn't all that much different, and clean-up operations would be about the same.