Strange, Strange Love | 03/09/2009 3:50 pm
Erika La Tour Eiffel Kisses Golden Gate Bridge, But Insists 'I Married the Eiffel Tower' (Video)

A filmmaker in the UK has released a documentary about women with serious object fetishes; these women believe their love with inanimate things is real and reciprocal, and that they are telepathically connected. And although their "mates" don’t argue, they definitely don’t help with laundry or dishes either.
In "Strange Love: Married to the Eiffel Tower," one woman, Erika La Tour Eiffel, claims she’s married to the massive Parisian monument. In the documentary, we’re first introduced to Mrs. Eiffel Tower, a 36-year-old former U.S. Army Soldier, on San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, with which she also claims to share a special bond. (We suppose the rules of infidelity are different in this situation.)
"He and I can never be truly intimate," she says of the Golden Gate Bridge, although even if she cheats, we assume she is safe from enduring any nasty divorce proceedings.
Mrs. La Tour Eiffel is not alone in her love for objects. In this documentary, 39 other people love objects as well. They call themselves "objective sexuals" and, according to an official website, their love for inanimate objects is no different than a woman’s love for a real human:
The spectrum of love is so vast; one may relate it to a bell curve. In the middle will certainly appear the majority of those whose relationships can be characterized by the similarities to whom and how they love. And at one end of this curve, that is where Objectùm-sexuality finds its place. While we have no firm numerical data, we are clearly a minority, which facilitates the criticism of our way of love and life. But nonetheless, we still fall under the curve of the enigmatic emotion known as love.
Watch 21 minutes of "Strange Love: Married to the Eiffel Tower":
Watch Married To The Eiffel Tower [Part 1] | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com
And I’m married to my Hermès scarf. I’m just kidding, but these women aren’t. Read more about it here.























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It’s called mental illness. It may be healed with therapy and it may be healed with medications….but make no mistake about this, it is a form of mental illness.
The next responses to this insanity is going to be that people who think like this should be respected and accepted for an "alternative" lifestyle. This is not an alternative lifestyle it is just plain bizarre and they are doing a huge disservice to themselves by wasting time loving and making love to a piece of wood or metal instead of a human being.
The Eifel Tower cheated on her. It fell in love with my cat, and they haven’t separated since. Sounds like a Jerry Springer topic to cover