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[aroraborealis]

I know what it's like for me to be a fat woman, but here's a great article by a man who loves fat women.

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[dbang.livejournal.com]

That's a good article.

I'm still pretty ambivalent, though, about guys for whom fat is a fetish, which it sounds to me is true for the author of the article, despite his denial.

I wish there were more people who had broad ranges of interests, or whose determining factor for physical attraction were more varied.

[sandhawke.livejournal.com]

If you don't by his denial, what is the difference between a fetish and a preference? Is every non-standard preference in a sexual context a fetish?

I don't know if he's telling the truth about everything, but if he is, it sounds like he has a very normal sexual preference, not unlike those people have between genders.

[keyne.livejournal.com]

Yeah, same question here.

[aroraborealis.livejournal.com]

Fetishes are always difficult for me to wrap my head around, and the more intensely fetishized something is, the more alien I find the fetishizer or the thoughts that lead to fetishization. I did get some of that from this guy, but in a way that seemed pretty honest and realistic to me. I mean, if he was into fat women all along and repressed it, that's a pretty clear path to fetishization.

That said, I got, also, from this article that he got beyond the fetish by also wanting to find a woman who he loved, not just who he could objectify.

And I sure as hell appreciate his being willing to talk about it and be up front about his preference.