My life long fascination with all things fat-related is by now very well documented. For as long as I can recall, going back to my very early childhood, the entire process of people consuming calories, gaining weight and getting bigger and rounder has been both thrilling and mysterious, captivating my curiosity and fueling my imagination.
I grew up in an era long before the internet, so for you young people who have had instantaneous access to images of BBWs and SSBBWs, of big-bellied BHMs and of feeders feeding and fattening up their feedees, all at your fingertips since you were old enough to click a mouse, there is no way I can accurately describe what it was like to live in a world where such images were seen oh so rarely in movies, magazines or tv shows, and ensuing arousal on the part of the viewer was largely an unintended consequence on the part of the creators of such content.
Somewhat ironically, many people my age or older who found themselves attracted toward fatness would point to things like the before and after photos featured in weight loss advertisements. Of course we all zeroed in on and preferred the before images, when the subject at hand was still nice and soft and round.
Then of course there were numerous memorable scenes in films and on television (mostly cartoons) when gluttony and weight gain was played up for…
