Talk:Fat fetishism

message: Should weight gain fetishism link here? Although they are related, and (most) people with a WG fetish also have a fat fetish, they're actually 2 different things. Not all people, some might even say a significant number, that have a fat fetish and/or are sexually attracted to fat partners get off on the idea of their partner (or themselves) getting fatter/gaining weight. Also, some people who are into WG fetish fantasize about skinny people gaining weight, and sometimes these amounts of weight aren't really enough to consider the partner fat. Weight gain fetish is strictly about the gaining of the weight, and not the end result, although I'd dare say most WG fetishists are also fat fetishists. C4bl3Fl4m3 13:43, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with this one mattbuck 21:36, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As I said below. Feederism should be a seperate encyclopedia article, for sure. The article as it stands is a mess anyway with original research and references to non-notable people, websites and ideas.--h i s   s p a c e   r e s e a r c h 21:28, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

text: Hey all, I'd like to make an article for "Gaining and Feeding". I've just made a sub-section on this page for now, but my hope is to collect enough info to make the page. Does anyone have a problem with me doing that? Any foreseeable issues? jedlev 9:04, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

text: Hey all, so I've just made a new article for "Gaining and Feeding". If that's an area you're interested in, please check it out and help me flesh that page out! jedlev 1:31, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal to make weight gain fetish its own page, and not linked here 

message: I've _never_ heard of this term, ever, and I've been around the scene for nearly a decade now. MarkRose 02:42, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Likewise. It may be a nickname among a tight group of community friends, but idioms of an extreme minority have no place in an encyclopedia. Sketchvg 19:42, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cow? 

message: I strongly believe that feederism should be a seperate article, perhaps with a summary here and a link to it in this article. Feederism is just a small part of fat fetishism.-h i s   s p a c e   r e s e a r c h 21:27, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In fact, this whole page needs to be split up into seperate articles again. It was a bad idea to have merge all of these topics into the same page.--h i s   s p a c e   r e s e a r c h 07:20, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

text: Agree. Especially since the media-advertised superthin look has made the term 'fat' ambiguous to say the least. Preference for somewhat curvy women (say, 155cm/65kg, 165/73, or 180/80) or stockier builds has nothing whatsoever in common with psychologically dominating an already obese person into becoming morbidly obese to the point of health issues or loss of mobility. I used the example of women here simply because there seems to be much more discrimination against average-figured women than against men.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aadieu (talk • contribs) 20:55, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Feederism should be a seperate article 

message: There are some scholarly references for this phenomenon, like these...  Geo Swan (talk) 23:31, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  some references... 

message: Numerous problems with unverified information on this page: "usually women" in first paragraph. No known quantitative research to justify this and no reference given. "Fat fetishists may be aroused by gaining weight" incorrect as weight gain fetishism is a subgenre or possibly separate body modification fetish and not representative of the whole . "Fat fetishism sometimes involves elements of sadomasochism." No reference given, and not aware of any evidence, either anecdotal or statistical, that would support this. The references to feederism in the first paragraph would be better in the feederism section lower down the page if this really can't be given its own page.
Zyrcona (talk) 22:30, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The link you provided is a mirror/fork of Wikipedia, meaning that we cannot use it to verify your claim that feederism is a "separate fetish" or should not be mentioned as part of fat fetishism.  Defining feederism as a type of fat fetishism, it is accurate to state that "fat fetishists may be aroused by gaining weight", and it is significant enough to warrant mention in the lede.  The cn template can be used to identify statements that need sourcing. Whatever404 (talk) 16:06, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

text: The term FFA (Female Fat Admirer) would not exist if fat fetishism did not usually focus on women. I agree that everything else is an issue.24.218.109.83 (talk) 00:29, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unverified claims 

message: Has anyone heard these terms used before? It seems like terms some guy just made up for this article or something.24.218.109.83 (talk) 00:38, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I have heard of the term of "Maintainer" before, specifically on | Growing Guysand | Beefyfrat, but I have yet to have heard "Appreciator" Before.--Fumitol (talk) 01:29, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Appreciator/Maintainer? 

message: This is in the Sources section:
In the RTE TV series Katherine Lynch's Wonderwoman, one of the characters had a Polish  boyfriend who chose a larger woman over her and she referred to him as a feeder by saying "I'd only landed myself with a bleeding feeder."
It looks like it got put in the wrong spot.74.196.205.92 (talk) 00:07, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Popular Culture item in Sources section? 

message: Under Philias there is no mention of "preference for obese or fat people". I'm surprised if there isn't a Latin word for lovers of overweight persons. As there probably is for attraction for thin person, too. Anybody?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.95.80.39 (talk) 14:01, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  Suggestions:
obesophilia, crassophilia (from "crassus"), carnatophilia ("carnatus")  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A01:E35:8A8D:FE80:60E8:2BFB:82B2:AB40 (talk) 21:36, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  It's adipophilia, from adipātus = fat (hence adipose tissue). Though I strongly suspect this word has yet to make its way into scientific literature… 95.160.155.131 (talk) 17:01, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  A philia? 

message: *I am a fat admirer, but this article doesn't have many sources. Erpert Who is this guy? | Wanna talk about it? 18:36, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Expert?

message: Is there any information on causes of fat fetishism, other fetishes on here have causes listed?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.149.82.243 (talk) 13:38, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: If they're reported on by reliable sources, then yes. --ChiveFungi (talk) 01:22, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Causes 

message: I'm a bit surprised, because the maximum of attractiveness in the control group (non fat fetichist) seems to be at BMI 18.
And it's considered (slightly) under the normal weigth. So men prefer lean girls?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A01:E35:8A8D:FE80:60E8:2BFB:82B2:AB40 (talk) 21:31, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Graph explanations 

message: Okay, I take issue with this. Just because you're attracted to someone who is overweight does not mean you have a fat fetish. My partners all have feet but I don't have a foot fetish. It's really off to suggest that people have to have this fetish to be attracted to people of a certain weight. I'd change it to something like "attracted to overweight or obese people because of their size/weight" or something similar but I don't want to wade through thousands of articles of this to find a better citation. Pigammon (talk) 21:00, 1 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opening sentence 

message: This page needs additional information or the use of community art to improve the quality of this page. I have noticed that this page has suffered from random deletions. Including the photo of a big beautiful woman (BBW) woman. Recent changes and deletions are not appealing to community standards. Even worse it seems that many of the deletions come with no desire to improve the content and information on this page. If you are going to delete content on this page, please replace it. Don't just prune. In fact, until this page has better content, avoid pruning anything at all unless it goes against our community standards.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Thegirlpower (talk • contribs) 
:This page can use additional information, but not additional images. The image that is being re-added is up for deletion on WikiCommons for possible copyright infringmement. Please do not re-add until that discussion is resolved. Thank you. --‖ Ebyabe talk - Repel All Boarders ‖ 06:24, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  more peer reviewed infromation and additional community photos 

message: I have removed this image, as the cited source doesn't specifically link this attraction to fetishization. While the source does discuss fetishism, it doesn't do so in connection to these statistics, making the chart's inclusion here WP:SYNTH. Grayfell (talk) 00:30, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Physical attraction 

message: Cworrell09 (talk) 03:53, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added? 

message: huge weight gaining Lorlenaakin69 (talk) 10:35, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ssbbw 

message: Fat fetishism isn’t very recent if that one statue tells us anything… Wolfquack (talk) 17:24, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: there is way more than that one statue --Mewtu (talk) 23:46, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  History?