Feeders, Gainers, and Super Size Sex

Not content to just report on such relatively pedestrian sex culture phenomena like skeezy celebrity sex tape impresarios, this month's Details also takes a look at the world of gainers and feeders—those men and women who get off on extreme weight gains and the partners that enable them: "In an era when trans-fat obsessives scrutinize every nutrition statistic, fantasizing about obesity—even immobility—is just a twist on a cultural norm. If anything, the feeder fantasy merely perverts the more popular ideal of waifish women snacking on sprouts. 'Fat is so demonized in this society that it actually makes it attractive,' says Don Kulick, a New York University anthropolgy professor and a co-editor of the anthology Fat: The Anthropology of an Obsession. 'It's a taboo that is both rejected and desired.'" It might not be everyone's cup of gravy, but at least it's making us feel less guilty about ordering a jumbo chimichanga for lunch today instead of the mesclun salad since we know that someone out there thinks it's hot. Maybe we'll even ask for extra sour cream this time.

· "Super-Size Me: These men and women are hot for partners with more than a little meat on their bones" (men.style.com)
· Thumbnail star: Gaining Goddess Nicki Hammond (gaininggoddess.com)
· See also: Fantasy Feeder and Dimensions Magazine

Previously: Plumpr, Flickr, Blogs and Ethics, Plumpr, Shyly: The Beauty Curve, Chubby Lover Girl, Secret Little Sexy, Big Love, Realplump, BBW Art by Ruben Esq, Aida Lott: Kiss My Gut