What is a “looner”?

Looners are people who are into balloons. Just like there are people who are into feet, nylons, lacquer or leather. All in the sexual sense, of course. So looners are sexually attracted to balloons and experience great sexual satisfaction when they incorporate balloons into their lovemaking. In German-speaking countries, we speak of balloon fetish, although the term looner is becoming more and more prevalent. It sounds cooler, after all.

Where does the term “looner” come from?

The term looner is derived from the English word balloon, but can also refer to the term loonatic, which means “crazy”.

What exactly is it about balloons that attracts Looners?

Looning can be a solo loss or lived out with a partner. With couples, balloon play can be incorporated into foreplay, and with solo pleasure, balloons are part of masturbation. With looners, different channels are addressed, and for each looner the focus can be somewhere else. For some, the smell and texture of the surface is particularly appealing, while for others the risk of bursting is arousing. Blow-to-pop describes blowing up a balloon until it pops, nail-to-pop describes breaking it with nails, and sit-to-pop describes sitting on it.

Popper, Semi-Popper and Non-Popper

The term popper is English and means to burst. The term is gender neutral.

There are three camps in the looner community. Those who deliberately destroy the balloons during the game and find the popping of the balloons particularly exciting belong to the poppers. Non-poppers, on the other hand, do everything they can to prevent the balloons involved in lovemaking from being broken. In between there are the semi-poppers. The boundaries between preferences are fluid and not set in stone.

Take me on the balloon!

As a couple, the following variant with balloon is very popular, because you hear about this combination balloon/love game again and again in the community:

A large zeppelin balloon is needed, on which the woman or the partner to be taken lies down on her stomach.

The active part takes the partner doggy style. The balloon swings back and forth and amplifies the shocks enormously. The passive partner often feels “weightless”. It is then “like lying on clouds”.

With the solo – play a balloon (the several) can be inserted into the masturbation. Man can use a balloon as a masturbator, rub against it or blow on a balloon when satisfying himself.

In summary, the imagination is like any fetish hardly a limit. The main thing is that everyone involved agrees and has fun.

Normal balloons or special looner balloons?

There are also hardly any limits to preferences. Looners are often not even satisfied with the standard balloons from the supermarket. Large balloons especially for are usually of much better quality and therefore more resilient and available in various forms on ebay and in online stores. Some online stores have even specialized in the needs of looners and offer balloons for every taste and purpose. One of the most famous stores is certainly the Danish online store “Nordic Looners”, which also ships to Germany.
Why am I only now learning about this fetish?

Looning has developed into an Internet phenomenon that is now reaching more and more people. Many media deal with the topic and help to deal with it objectively and thus take the fetish seriously. Certainly, this publicity has contributed to the fact that many people have dared to stand by their fetish, when they realized that they are not alone.

How many looners are there worldwide?

It is difficult to say how many looners there are worldwide. Some clues can be found on these pages for example:

• loonermap.com
• The english forum blowtopop.net has over 5,095 members
• The German forum balloonforum.com has 7,996 members