"fat fetishism" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1999, Laura Kipnis, Bound and Gagged: Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in America, reprint edition, Duke University Press, →ISBN:",
          "text": "\"A wonderfully provocative examination of pornographic fantasies and their broader cultural meanings. . . . Bound and Gagged pokes and prods at a number of America's most tender spots—examining everything from transvestite personal ads and ‘fat fetishism’ to the class-ridden politics of disgust.\" — David Futrelle, Los Angeles Reader",
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          "text": "In the context of fat fetishism, the feedee is the submissive counterpart to the feeder. As part of the relationship, the feedee is fed, either for the purpose of gaining weight, or for the sheer pleasure of the act.",
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          "ref": "2011 October 4, Eva Christina, The Book of Kink: Sex Beyond the Missionary, Penguin, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Fat Fetishism (or Fat Admiration)",
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          "ref": "2021 July 22, Maxine Leeds Craig, The Routledge Companion to Beauty Politics, illustrated edition, Routledge, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Indeed, taken to its extreme, exalting fatness as beautiful and desirable also holds the potential to transform it into fat-fetishism, much of which involves abjection, social injustice, and abuse. A thriving culture of fat-fetishism exists today, populating internet porn sites and driving fat-fetish (which are largely heterosexual and focused on fat women) sexual subcultures both online and on the ground, populated by devotees of gaining (large amounts of weight purposefully), feeding (others with the intention of making them fatter), hogging (having sex with fat people with the express intention of exploitation), and squashing (sexual desire to be crushed by a fat person)",
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          "ref": "2023 February 2, James Craig, chapter 2, in Sink or Swim, Little, Brown Book Group, →ISBN:",
          "text": "‘I like women of all shapes and sizes,’ the billionaire replied equably. ‘There's nothing wrong with fat-fetishism’ Sobrinho chipped in.",
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          "ref": "2025 March 6, Gina Tonic, “Chapter Eight: The Time I Fucked a Fat Fetishist”, in Greedy Guts: A frank, funny and feminist ode to fatness, appetite and pleasure from the Polyester Podcast host, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN:",
          "text": "I'd be lying if I said I hadn't participated in fat fetishism. I'd also be lying if I said it was all negative experiences too. (There have been very negative experiences, but I'll get into that a little bit later.) I've even profited from fat fetishism, in literal monetary terms, while briefly dabbling in cam girling, selling nudes and being a Twitter findom* on occasion.",
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        "fetishistic sexual attraction to obese people."
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      "related": [
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          "word": "fatphobia"
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          "word": "chubby chaser"
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          "text": "I'd be lying if I said I hadn't participated in fat fetishism. I'd also be lying if I said it was all negative experiences too. (There have been very negative experiences, but I'll get into that a little bit later.) I've even profited from fat fetishism, in literal monetary terms, while briefly dabbling in cam girling, selling nudes and being a Twitter findom* on occasion.",
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