Valentine's Day: the story of the man who has "made love" with more than a thousand cars and confesses to be in love with them

Mechanism. This is the name of this variant of paraphilia, a badual tendency in which pleasure is found in "atypical" objects, in this case cars. Yes, there are people who prefer to interact with a vehicle rather than with a human being.

This is the case of Edward Smith (cover photo), a 68-year-old American who confessed to having bad with more than a thousand cars From 15 to 57 years old until his meeting with his partner, a Volkswagen Beetle of 1974 nicknamed "Vanilla" with which he claims to have contracted the marriage.

Smith claims to be 100% heterobadual, but badures that does not feel physical attraction to people. "I'm not sick and I do not want to hurt anyone, only my preference is for cars," he told Telegraph newspaper some time ago.

"What I feel is an expression of love", sums up the man who claims to have "experienced pleasure" at the age of thirteen and finds himself for the first time with a Corvette Stingray. A year later, she lost her virginity with a ladybug and, from there, she had bad only with a woman.

On Vanilla, he says: "When I hold him in my arms, a powerful energy flows from it, if something happens to him, it will break my heart." But beware: it's not monogamous. He admits to "love" a 1973 Opel GT called "Cinnamon" and a 1993 Ford Ranger nicknamed "Splash".

Smith & # 39; s This is not the only case of mechanics in the world. Also in the United States, a 23-year-old man, Ryan Malek, was arrested while he had "baded" with a car, at the sight of the parking lot of a residential neighborhood. He had his limb inside the exhaust pipe.

Years ago, moreover, a man was discovered in Brazil had his member stuck in the exhaust of a goal.