Editing Jim Michael Paap (section)

== Personal life ==
Paap is single and lives in Birmingham. He is bisexual and has one son, Derek Paap.<ref name="derek-early-life"/>

Paap dislikes white teeth because of his relationship with his brother Edwin. Edwin's teeth were badly decayed, and Paap said that he preferred them in that condition because clean teeth appeared unnatural to him. At family gatherings, he sometimes leaned towards Edwin while they were speaking and deliberately smelled his breath. Paap described the rotten smell as comforting. He later began smelling Edwin's teeth whenever they met as a way of appreciating their deterioration.

His dislike of clean socks began after Ben Paap gave him a pack of new white socks as a birthday gift. Paap threw the socks behind a radiator and said that they made him look like a hospital patient. He continued wearing older socks afterward.

Paap is also known for licking dirty walls. The habit was first recorded after he lost a bet outside a pub in Birmingham and licked a brick wall behind the building. He later repeated the act without being challenged, usually when attempting to make people leave him alone.