“It’s a common assumption that women like their men with chiselled cheekbones and a taut stomach. Studies of male physical attractiveness tend to support this idea, with research by University College London finding that women like their men muscular (we’re talking athletic, not Arnie) and with a narrow waist and wide shoulders. Of course, there are always exceptions. David Beckham’s rippled torso might make most girls go weak at the knees but, for some, fleshy wobbles are a huge turn-on… Dr Viren Swami, co-author of The Psychology Of Physical Attraction, has researched admirers of fat people. ‘We know about men who like fat women but we haven’t done any research into women who like bigger men simply because they’re not as common — but we do know they are out there. The non-scientific research we have done found fat men are described as ‘bears’ because they are both tough and cuddly.’ In other circles, namely online dating websites and in the fat acceptance movement, these men are also referred to as Big Handsome Men. But, according to Grace, there is a big difference between a fat man and a big, handsome one. ‘I’ve only ever dated big men who were happy with themselves but that’s getting harder to find nowadays. If I suspect a man has a ‘woe is me, I’m fat’ attitude, I wouldn’t get involved. But if he considered himself a Big Handsome Man, then I would be interested. Nobody wants to date someone who hates their body.’ [...] ‘In developed countries, fat is associated with laziness and bigger people are often denigrated in society. This makes these women the stronger, more accepted ones and challenges typical gender assumptions. When men date fat women, they are called ‘feeders’ and get pleasure from feeding her and being dominant. This could also be the case here. Another explanation could be they have a fetish for fat flaps or ‘pannus’, which are hanging flaps of adipose tissue.’” — Metro.co.uk (UK)

Currently the most-commented post here on PervScan is Fat Girls and Feeders. Clearly feederism and fat fetishism tap into a powerful undercurrent of contemporary society. There are more perverse perversions, and there are more blatantly harmful ones. But if you had to pick a representative perversion — a perversion for our times — you’d probably have to choose between pedophilia and feederism. Pedophilia is more common and invokes more outright hysteria, but feederism taps into the same murky forces that have resulted in a veritable “obesity epidemic” in Western countries. (And yes, there are doubtless weird conjunctions of pedophilia and feederism — pervs who, like an old-world grandmother, delight in fattening up little children.)

As this story rightly points out, most of the discussion surrounding feederism and fat fetishism has addressed men who lust after Big Beautiful Women. But naturally there are also women who prefer Big Handsome Men. The interesting thing is that these two are not mirror images of each other. Men who desire BBWs and women who desire BHMs appear to be looking for different things in their supersized desiderata. The women in this article are attracted by vulnerability (shown by obese men who aren’t “falling in line with societal standards”) and confidence (”If I suspect a man has a ‘woe is me, I’m fat’ attitude, I wouldn’t get involved.”) They like men who are both “tough and cuddly.” Read the comments on Fat Girls and Feeders and you’ll see that men appear to have darker motives for their interest in obese women.

This disparity raises some interesting questions. Did the reporter seek out women who simply had more benign (i.e. presentable for newspaper readers) interests in fat men? Are there evil broads out there who want to dominate a man by stuffing him till he’s a human sofa? Conversely, are there good guys out there who like obese women because they’re somehow more confident in their bodies? More generally, are there “good” and “bad” forms of fat fetishism?

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