Thank you for this thread! No one person is allowed to define what "love" is, and when it is or isn't "right". As long as it doesn't manifest itself in illegal contact (for instance, children), one should be able to love who - or what - one wishes.
My video arcade games communicate with me, and have a living pulse. I know when they're feeling well, or when they're tempermental, simply by placing my hands on the side of the cabinets, sometimes by lying my cheek on the control panels. When one isn't working, talking to it can help. I think there's a genuine back-and-forth affection which goes on between myself and them; I'm convinced that they notice me. I feel that they watch me when I'm doing activities in my apartment, such as cooking dinner, or walking around naked after a shower - the monitors act as eyes. Yes, I've kissed them before, usually the marquee area or sometimes the monitor bezel. I've even allowed my love for them to transcend into the sexual, usually ejaculating in the coin slot during fits of passion. I once took my Donkey Kong mini "from behind" by creating a love portal on the back door lined with vaseline. But people get hung up on the "weird" and sexual aspects of my love without looking at the big picture of being able to have such intense, reciprocated feelings from anyone, or anything (in this case).
I want to reassure anyone who has bought a machine from me that they got a clean machine. I disinfect and wash whatever I've come in contact with.