{"id":13139,"date":"2011-05-20T19:41:09","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T23:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=13139"},"modified":"2011-05-20T19:41:09","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T23:41:09","slug":"not-even-mr-toad-loved-cars-this-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/not-even-mr-toad-loved-cars-this-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Not even Mr. Toad loved cars this much"},"content":{"rendered":"

A different kind<\/a> of autoerotic experience: \"\"<\/p>\n

A man who claims to have had sex with 1,000 cars has defended his “romantic” feelings towards vehicles.<\/p>\n

Edward Smith, who lives with his current “girlfriend” \u2013 a white Volkswagen Beetle named Vanilla, insisted that he was not “sick” and had no desire to change his ways.<\/p>\n

“I appreciate beauty and I go a little bit beyond appreciating the beauty of a car only to the point of what I feel is an expression of love,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Maybe I’m a little bit off the wall but when I see movies like Herbie and Knight Rider, where cars become loveable, huggable characters it’s just wonderful.<\/p>\n

“I’m a romantic. I write poetry about cars, I sing to them and talk to them just like a girlfriend. I know what’s in my heart and I have no desire to change.”<\/p>\n

He added: “I’m not sick and I don’t want to hurt anyone, cars are just my preference.”<\/p>\n

Mr Smith, 57, first had sex with a car at the age of 15, and claims he has never been attracted to women or men.<\/p>\n

But his wandering eye has spread beyond cars to other vehicles. He says that his most intense sexual experience was “making love” to the helicopter from 1980s TV hit Airwolf.<\/p>\n

As well as Vanilla, he regularly spends time with his other vehicles \u2013 a 1973 Opal GT, named Cinnamon, and 1993 Ford Ranger Splash, named Ginger.<\/p>\n

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Mr Smith is now part of a global community of more than 500 \u201ccar lovers\u201d brought together by internet forums.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019ll never leave my car unattended in a parking lot again.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s only a matter of time before Rowan Williams pens an erudite thesis on how man-car love is \u201ccomparable to marriage\u201d, Michael Ingham campaigns for full inclusion of Herbie humpers in the life of the church and mechaphobia is declared a hate crime.<\/p>\n

After all, car lovers have no choice: God made them that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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