Women in lingerie touching each other. (Photo by BDLM/Getty Images)

Members of the LGBT community kiss during a Kissathon to celebrate International Day Against Homophobia, outside Bellas Artes museum in Mexico City, Mexico, May 17, 2016. (Photo by Edgard Garrido/Reuters)

Photographer holding digital camera during photoshoot of fashion model. (Photo by grinvalds/Getty Images)

Kelvingrove Park under heavy snow on January 7, 2022 amid a Met Office warning of snow stretching from the Highlands through to Glasgow and Edinburgh. (Photo by Ewan Bootman/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

Naked Sushi event where people eat sushi from the bodies of nearly naked models at Buddha Bar, Knightsbridge in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Alamy Stock Photo)

Three female friends dancing in nightclub. (Photo by Cultura Creative (RF)/Alamy Stock Photo )

The love padlocks, called cadenas d’amour, multiplied until there were thousands of love tokens on the bridge, each engraved with a message of love. (Photo by Charles Platiau/Reuters)

There are many types of collections. Some are formed by purposefully collecting certain objects, such as stamps or coins. However, some collections are only a byproduct of an obsession, a quirk of mind. For example, Paul Brockmann got into the habit of buying his girlfriend and later his wife a dress every time they went ballroom dancing. It might seem excessive to some, but it was his way of showing his affection. Overtime, this collection grew to be enormous, counting 55,000 dresses in total. Basic math tells us that either they went ballroom dancing three times per day for every day of their lives, or he bought them in huge bundles every time.