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I think saying that there is a feederism gene is the equivalent of saying that there is a gay gene. I don't think it's a choice, since a far easier choice for me would have been to like skinny girls.

I didn't know in high school what my preference was, I even thought i liked skinny girls since that was what I assumed everybody liked. Most teens probably think this, because they are bombarded with the stereotypes. That and I really didn't have many fat girls in my surroundings.

thank god for the Internet...
I discovered that i liked feederism through the dimensions weight board, round 2000 or something. By fapping to Kelly girl images mostly, back in the day I was always fascinated by how large she had gotten, and that she seemed to be enjoying it, and i remember hoping that she would get even bigger still.

I like this insightful forum topic!! Kudos to Madeline Grace.
My 2 cents is that whilst it might not be genetic, too many people on here report that they had fantasies at a very young age, before they even knew what sex fully was, so there must be an element that is similar to being gay?

I've felt this way about fat since childhood. Lots of cartoons showing showing fat people eating and struggling always aroused me, even before I understood what arousal was. I even used to stuff pillows in my clothes and waddle around like a fatty.
I've dated beautiful thin women before, but nothing has aroused me on such a deep, primal, sexual level than feeding and fattening a woman with the same desire. I gave up a long time ago trying to figure it out and concluded I'm hard-wired for fat women.
The older I get, the bigger I want her and the more I realize if I were to settle down it would need to be with a gaining, beautiful, lazy food addicted feedee. Now, where to turn?

I also got my entire life, that I prefer bigger is better

Unless there is something that is really stronger then that feeling. (Like being in love on an women that wants you lose weight).

It's not a gene, because I surely converted my gf into the fetish as a feedee

I dunno about it being genetic but I definetly believe its something in us from waaay back when we were living in huts and whatnot

Im sure I was just born this way, I remember being like 6 or 7 and wishing I was fat and not only that but wanting other people to see me as fat, like id sit in my front yard with like a pillow under my shirt haha
my mum has always been big and my sister was pretty big for while, and alot of my friends have been overweight but they have always hated it and tried to lose weight and I was also teased in school for being chubby, so to me fat has always been seen as a negative thing.
I think that having a prefernce for curvy or fat girls or whatever is probably caused by somthing in childhood but having a fetish for the actual fat, the feel of it, the look..everything..youve just got to be born with that..
I dont think it's genetic because youd think then it would be more common to have people with the same fetishes in families ?

I dont possess a doctorate, but i majored in biology/minored in chemistry the length of four years....often times a characteristic isnt derived from only a single source...i attribute most responsibility to the aforementioned " imprinting years", around age 3...possibly during a fertile delopment window for body type identification or sexual orientation, we encountered a growing or fat person thru happenstance. And a path was linked between neurons that control each idea....just random meeting of two notions...however i also believe we were genetically positioned to have higher odds of a union between them...just a hypothesis...not an expert, remotely

It's been great reading everyone's responses to the question. I know I was wired this way since I was very young. Like others have stated here, watching cartoons that had fat female characters, or female characters that became fat, affected me before I ever knew what sex was.

In my family everyone is thin, so I was not exposed to big girls until I got to high school, but was too shy to act on my feelings/attractions. It wasn't until I found others like me on the internet that I realized I wasn't a total freak.

My wife had gained 60 pounds during our marriage, but I would not call her a feedee. She was curvy when we started dating, and she LOVES to eat. It was a turn on watching her eat until she had to unbutton her pants. After a while I told her I find heavier females more attractive, which was a risk, and although she she thought I was a bit strange for feeling that way it gave her the freedom to eat as much as she wants an not worry (as much) about gaining weight.

She now accepts that I love her growing figure and teases me at times. Just today we took our dog to the vet for a follow up visit and she climbed on the pet scale when the vet was in back, the number flash up to 207.5, up a pound from 2 weeks ago when we were there. She hopped off quick and smiled at me saying "That number just keeps going up", knowing it is a turn on to me.

My point is, I have been attracted to fat females since I was a young kid, my wife doesn't seem to be a feedee as I understand them (it's not sexual for her to gain weight) but she is definitely a foodee and knows I don't care if she gains.

I don't know that genetics plays a role for either one of us, but we were definitely made for each other in many ways. The whole weight gain/eating thing is just icing on the cake. (forgive the pun)

This is similar to this thread - http://fantasyfeeder.com/cms/infusions/forum/view-thread.php?forum_id=26&thread_id=18394

And I think all of us are an amalgamation of genetics, evolution and personal experiences. Personal experiences and genetics will obviously vary infinitely between us. But looking at evolution...

Given that in the past food was scarcer and healthcare not as good I think the default setting is attraction for fat, that is showing an ability to get the food, and in Women the fertile look, that is wide hips, large breasts and round stomach.

Genetic disposition or self proclaiming prophecy; I'm not ruling out to what it could be linked to but merely pointing out possibilities, never the less.

Looking back I can recall when I was around the age of 12, and like many other contributors to this forum, either watching something on television or reading up on some news article find it rather interesting to find out more about it.

Needless to say when the internet came into play well, "No holds bar" is the best way to descibe what came next.

Genetics or not... as we see from McFottykins post, she is no clear gay, but BI. Which means somewhere around 50 on the scale 0 to 100.

I think there is the same sort of scale that could be applied to this kink .
0 for average and 100 for hardcore feeder/feedee for example.

I am somewhere about 30 (with occasional, sporadical jump to 100 and back)

Thinking twice, this would make nice thread itself...

I've been comparing sexuality not to an either or but to a continuum and so think that there are very few people who are 100% straight, and hence have differing levels of bi-ness.

You can do the same for all fetishes, and start making 2 (or more) dimensional graphs.

While I am not sure my brother is a full blown FA he did confess to me that he did not like the fact that when his wife recently lost weight, he was not to happy about her curves disappearing.

Now first time I remember a preference for larger girls I was only ten and is also my first memory of thinking of a girl as anything other than icky.

Soon I found out it was clearly wrong to like fat, but plenty of other boys liked girls with big breasts and whose girls tended to have a bit of a belly as well, so in public that is what my preference, but in my dreams I still fantasized about bigger girls. t was not until I turned eighteen and got regular internet that I found that my preference although unusual was not mine alone and from there I have gradual become more open about what I like.

No woman can ever grow too fat, but every woman is always too thin.

I'm one of those guys that always felt tingly whenever a character got a fat belly on a cartoon. One memory that sticks out was Rosie O'Donnell talking about voicing a cartoon character with a "cute little pot belly, like me". I think it's ingrained in my brain.

I was very similar to you. As a child (I can remember this happening as early as four or so) I would stuff pillows and shirts and things into my clothes, to make myself "fat." I had an unusual obsession with Violet from Willy Wonka. I would basically think through feeder-type fantasies at about eight or nine when I fell asleep.
At some point, I found videos about feederism and gaining on my mom's computer as a teenager.
I completely think it is a genetic trait. My mother was into it, and my brother and I both are as well.