flingbing1819:
For as long as I can remember, I've been fascinated by fat, but I don't know why. This is something I need to know (I need to know why to everything); while this is by no means any sort of scientific study, this is just me looking for answers. I can't figure it out and am hoping that perhaps if I can talk to people about why/how others enjoy it, I can find insight into my own personal reasons. What do others enjoy about weight? I like the aesthetic, not the mentality, so what about the aesthetic is enjoyable? Psychological reasons make sense, but solely physical attraction doesn't.
So much of who we are is dictated by our body chemistry, genetics and biological imperatives. So what about these things might make fat and weight gain seem so fascinating to you? And are there environmental (nuture) factors as well?
These are difficult questions, certainly. And if we think of ourselves as animals, what is it about animals that leads to certain mates being preferable over others?
Sorry, I'm just rambling and asking more questions rather than giving some plausible answers.
I do think there is some biological imperative among many humans to prefer a bigger mate. It could be perceived health, virility, fertility, even the notion that a fat man (or woman) has a regular food source -- as well as the capacity to store food as adipose to get through times of food shortage, famine, the winter, whatever.
When you see a big man, your body's reaction might be fascination and attraction due simply to propagation of the species -- the survival of the fittest (or in this case, the fattest).
And also, there is nurture. At some key point in your early through adolescent life, did you experience something related to fatness or fat people that caused arousal or strange feelings? You may not even remember that event, but somewhere your brain took notice and associated all things good with all things fat.
Perhaps someday, they will discover the "fat-lover's gene" and we will see that all this was pre-determined way before our birth -- same as our gender and sexual preferences.
Until then, it's a fascinating subject, and like you, I think about it often.