Woman 'marries' train station after 36-year relationship

A woman has 'married' the Santa Fe train station after claiming they have spent the last 36 years in love with each another.

The 45-year-old lady takes a bus ride to the station every day to spend time with the building, and although their marriage isn't legally binding, she 'tied the knot' in 2015, and they celebrated their anniversary last year.

Carol is an objectum sexual – which is a person who is sexually attracted to inanimate objects and structures, and it's a topic constantly under debate as to whether the phenomenon is a sexual, fetish or mental condition.

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Carol says that she takes a 45-minute bus ride every night to see the station. When she gets there, she says hello and then walks around the block circling it, trying not to let anyone notice she is talking.

"There is a private bit where two walls meet, I go there to touch her, which I do by leaning against her with my clothes on. When I’m touching her, I feel as though it actually holds me and kisses me," Carol says.

Carol isn't the first person to be an objectum sexual. Erica Eiffel famously 'married' Paris’s Eiffel Tower in 2007 and Eklöf Berliner-Mauer 'married' the Berlin Wall in 1979, and was the first person to come forward with objectum sexuality.

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Carol says that objectum sexuality is "not a mental illness like the media always makes out. It is our sexuality, just like being lesbian or bisexual – we are not crazy. People just don’t understand."

What would you say or do if one of your work colleagues or friends told you they were an objectum sexual?