>>36108Do you really think being gay in the Western world in 2023 is harder than having an intrusive unsatisfiable desire for constant weight gain?
I feel like these discussions are always people with considerably different levels/engagements of/with the fetish talking past each other. As shown for example by those who insist that it's a preference and not a fetish (not saying you're doing that, just something that happens that I thought of since you used the word preference).
I have no idea where OP stands. But when I date a 200 lb woman, I want her to be 250 lbs. Once she's 250 lbs, I want 300. 300 becomes 350. 350 becomes 400 (have never dated someone who reached that). I can only get an erection by thinking of her getting fatter and even that is hard to do in the moment. I need some sort of explicit acknowledgement — fat chat, a scale, a measuring tape, outgrown clothes — to feel strongly aroused.
This is not porn-induced. In pr!school I would get my dick hard by reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar. When I was in k!ndergarten/early elementary school I would fantasize every single night about walking on my street, seeing a classmate, taking her home to my basement, and pushing her belly button or the button on her jeans, and her swelling to an inhuman, Violet Beauregard type size. Later in elementary school this became a fantasy about my close semi-romantic friend (you know how when you're right before puberty and you have those unique, Bridge to Terabithia type relationships with girls that would've been explicitly romantic a couple years later) in her room during one of our sleepovers revealing that she had been wearing a girdle the entire time and again becoming that size. I masturbated to these thoughts before I ever found a weight gain story or a tight button down shirt YouTube video, let alone this place.
All of this is objectively extremely maladaptive. It's similar to OCD or some other sort of mental illness. That is my relationship with a fat fetish is. On the other hand, there are people whose relationship with a fat fetish is wanting to have vanilla PIV sex with a 250 lb woman. Both of those are valid, neither of us are right or wrong about what a fat fetish is, it's a limitation of language. But can you see why I might feel frustrated and distressed, how I might be hurting my partners and myself, why I might want this to go away, how it might be frustrating to see this called minor?
Of course it could be worse, I could be into vore, or furry stuff, or extreme sexual sad!sm (though of course many vanilla people view my desires as such). But I don't think it's unreasonable to find this hard to deal with. And sorry, I know it harshes a lot of people's buzz to see what's often described as "moaning", but people with paraph!lic disorder will inherently end up on a board with paraph!lic content.