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Popper's Introduction

"I love to see how big I can get my balloons before they pop!"
"A balloon just isn't full until it has one breath too many."
"Popping balloons is a big release for me."
"Balloons exist to be popped."

Do any of these sound like you? Then you are probably what the balloon community would term a popper.

Poppers are by most reckonings the largest group in the active balloon community online. Interestingly enough, it often seems like a disproportionate number of women in the balloon community are poppers, whereas a very high proportion of non-poppers are men.

The distinctions and differences within the group of poppers are not well delineated, and most of the time center around preferences for either different methods of popping balloons, or different situations in which to pop balloons.

• Method poppers prefer one or two different methods to pop their balloons. Among the most popular popping methods in the community are overinflation (often referred to in short as "B2P", short for blow-to-pop) and sit-popping, though many have preferences for stomping, squeezing, or crushing their balloons. Many looners also prefer to pop balloons, or see balloons popped, with cigarettes or other hot objects, though pin popping is less popular. Method poppers find variety in new brands and sizes of balloons, searching for ones that are better suited to their favorite popping method: for example, longer necked balloons for sit-popping, easier-to-handle balloons for overinflation, and louder-popping balloons in general.
• Situational poppers may have a preferred popping method as well, but their fantasies center more around a particular situation in which to experience balloons popping. For example, a situational popper might like to pop balloons in a certain location, or with a certain person, no matter what kind of balloons are used or how they are popped. This is not to say the brand or method is irrelevant; it just is not the focus of a situational popper's enjoyment of balloons.

• There are others like you. Like to pop balloons by overinflation? Pins? Sitting? Stepping? Cigarettes? Squeezing? There are certainly others in the community who share that interest. Within reason, no matter what your favorite method of popping balloons happens to be, it's someone else's as well.
• Many of us do not, or cannot, pop balloons. While poppers seem to enjoy a majority in the balloon community, there is a large contingent of folks who either prefer not to, or cannot, pop balloons due to personal preferences or a phobia. So keep in mind that even if you believe balloons were invented for the sole purpose of being popped, there are lots of looners who would be mortified if a balloon were to pop in their presence. Try to be sensitive to the concerns and preferences of non-poppers. In the event you are ever in the room with a non-popper, under no circumstances should you pop a balloon without their consent! Personal preferences should be taken seriously; phobias must be taken very seriously.
• Nobody will hold your popping against you. However, your love of popping balloons will not subject you to harrassment by non-poppers. We are a very inviting community that has room for every adult, no matter what their interest in balloons or how and whether they like to pop. You'll never be made to feel weird because of your preferences about popping balloons.
• Pay sites cater primarily to poppers. If you're looking for adult-themed movies and pictures involving balloons online, you're in luck; most of the movies produced by pay sites involve heavy doses of popping of all varieties, though overinflation and sitting are the most often featured. Check them out!

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