"The Most Bizarre Relationships and Marriages"
Posting by T. Flusser
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 April 30, 2010
Apparently, relationships between humans have gone out of style. Sexual relationships with objects, OS (objectum sexual), is now the new vogue. Here we list the most bizarre marriages in recent history.
1) Woman Marries the Eiffel Tower
Retired veteran Erika La Tour Eiffel, as her name prompts, decided to marry the Eiffel Tower. She was given to the Eiffel Tower in the presence of her close friends and relatives. It is her biggest but not her first love from the land of objects. She had a relationship with a bow and arrow called “Lance”. Lance helped her move to the top of the archery ranks. Erika is close to the Berlin Wall as well, and she supposedly sleeps next to a piece of fence in her bed.
2) A Chinese Man Marries a Virtual Female Version of Himself
Thirty-nine year old Chinese man Liu Ye from Zhuhai City admits that he is a bit of a narcissist. Liu Ye had a ceremony in the fellowship of two witnesses where he married his own plastic figurine dressed in a female outfit. “The decision to marry myself had many reasons but it mostly reflects my frustration with reality,” claims Lui. In 2003, Jennifer Hoes from the Netherlands also married herself in a long white dress.
3) There Were Just Pieces Left From a Swedish Woman’ Husband
Swedish woman Eija-Ritta Brliner-Mauer also has a name that speaks for itself. In 1979 she married the Berlin Wall in a small ceremony of her friends and relatives. She is now 54 years old but the construction of the wall had warmed her heart since she was seven when she first saw it on television. In 1989 while the world celebrated the downfall of the wall and the iron curtain, Eija Ritta was saddened and never came back to Berlin. She also claims to still be a virgin and dreams about the loss of her object of her endearment.
4) Japanese Man Marries a Girl from a Video Game
A Japanese man under a nickname Sal9000 was married last November to a girl from video game. He committed to Nene Anegasaki in Guam where it is legal to marry an imaginative object. This man can carry his ‘wife’ with him all the time, but she unfortunately is trapped in the game and still not aware of the fact that she is married.
5) American Woman Wishes to Marry a Carnival Attraction
Thirty-two year old American, Amy Wolf is about to marry a carnival attraction called ‘Magic Carpet’. This woman who is afflicted with Asperger’s syndrome has fallen in love a couple of times with various objects, such as; space figurines, The World Trade Center, a church organ and a fence. Her last relationship was much stronger and most intense. Wolf got a lift on the magic carpet ride named ‘1001 Nacht’ more than 3000 times even though it is 155 miles away from her home. She plans to change her name to Weber after the attraction's manufacturer. She also claims to have a fulfilling physical and spiritual relationship with the attraction, and is not jealous of the other people come to have rides.
6) Korean Man Ends Up at the Altar with Pillow
Korean Lee Jin-Gyu married his pillow. The Japanese Dakimakura fascinated him, Dakimakura is a type of large pillow from Japan and the name means "hugging pillow." They are similar in shape to the body pillows of the Western world. They can often be seen in Japanese comics and anime series. Hugging pillows are favorites of teenagers because the pillow has a printed image of anime characters, providing the feeling that the figure is in bed with them. Jin-Gyu married the pillow clothed in a wedding dress last month in front of the resident priest.
7) The Indian Snake Husband
In 2006 in front of a two thousand person audience the Indian Bimbala Das from a village called Atala married a cobra that lives by the anthill close to her house. The woman claims to be certain that she has a unique relationship with her snake who comes out when she gives him a bowl of milk. The people honored the act because they believe that a wedding with a snake will bring the village happiness and prosperity.
8) Law in France Allows Marriage to a Dead Person
Magali Jasikiewicz was married in 2008 to her boyfriend Johnatan Gerge who was dead at the time. He had a motorcycle accident two days before their wedding. French law allows marriage with a dead person if there were already steps made for a wedding including the date. Jasikiewicz proved that she lived with her partner since 2004, they had mutual bank accounts and the wedding dress had already been chosen. There are around ten similar weddings per year in France.
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