Psh...I don't believe it with one guy I went to high school with. Couldn't shut up about his car-- even after being threatened with being beaten about the head.
He's got a point though. There's still a long way to go from loving your car and enjoying it to making love to it and spilling your love juices all over the hood...
It's an interesting point that neurologists learn what parts of the brain do what by studying case studies of accidents/war casualties, as the usual laboratory approaches can't be done with humans like they are with lab rats. I support this observational approach with lab rats, too, as I can't bear the thought of inflicting pain deliberately on anything conscious, but I'm getting off-point.
There was one study done on a steel worker who accidentally got a rebar (steel bar used to reinforce concrete) stuck through his head. Surgeons successfully removed it and he survived, miraculously. He had one region of his brain which was damaged severely by the rebar, though, and it resulted to him not being able to distinguish between abstract beauty and sexual attraction.
They learned to schedule his doctors' appointments carefully, as once they caught him attempting to have sex with a particularly sultry lamp in the waiting room of the doctor's office.
The only guy I said I felt had an excuse was the guy with brain damage caused by a steel rod through his head.
I said that both the "horse-ophiliac" and the guy with "car-nal knowledge" both should be locked-up in a mental institution, and the only debate was which should get the room with a window.
I think we're actually on the same side - I don't want either of these sickos out without a leash.
Which guy? There are three (according to my count), the guy who has sex with his horse, the guy who has sex with his car, and the guy whose head was impaled by a steel rod and was trying to have sex with the lamp in his doctor's waiting room.