General

I have been into guts, stuffing, feeding etc. since before I was aware of sex, masturbation or any other form of erotica and I think its like that for many of us in this community. I have always wanted to know why it is our brains find these acts so erotic and for some people like myself - its not really possible to be authentic in the bedroom if the kink is not there with us.

Has anyone run into any studies or academics who have explored what the hell is going on in our brains to make us the way we are?

For all of Kita's searching over the past 18 years, she has been unable to find real, definitive, conclusive data about... most kinks. Academia is mostly uninterested. It's not that nothing exists as far as data, just not anywhere near enough for proper meta analysis, nor any analysis worth a damn, in our opinion.

If we had to take a stab, survival and reproduction instincts are really deeply ingrained in all mammals; and as particularly social ones, acts that are pro-social like sharing food or being vulnerable with one another often can be related to attraction. Anti-social behaviours seen as taboo can cross disgust thresholds that are closely related to brain structures involved in determining sexual attraction or stimulation.

All this is to say that feeding being pro-social, and being fat having social consequences, probably influences a lot of the early stimulation of neural pathways related to attraction/sex; and these pathways are like grooves in a record, getting deeper as they are accessed and dominating more of the energy transference in that region.

I think for many of us who appreciate the fuller female form it’s the feeling of being comforted and supported. We were pressed to soft, fleshy bosoms as babies and the feeling just never goes away.

Yeah, I have absolutely looked for information on this quite a lot but any research into feedism that I’ve been able to find has been shallow at best, and insulting at worst especially from the ideas of where it comes from. I would love to know more about where this part of myself comes from but there doesn’t seem to be much out there.

As for the idea of why people with this kink can have trouble feeling honest sexually I have a bit of an idea. I believe that because the inherent basis of this kink comes from hedonism that we have seen beyond the veil of societal expectations and found that indulgence and seeking pleasure are more rewarding than following some arbitrary measurement of what we measure our worth as “enough” is. It’s a word that loses it’s meaning when you are constantly walking that line and seeing if you can push it further. It’s a fetish that by it’s very nature encourages you to see a world full of so much beautiful, tasty, and soft things that can be yours which so much of the world actively discourages you from. Therefore it can be hard to connect with people too caught up in the expectations of the world when you have seen what else is out there.

I agree with you, likewise I went hunting in academia and found little of substance because its really hard to get an honest open cohort about something so intimate to do even a qualitative study forget quantitative analysis. It kinda sucks because I would like to know when and how my neural pathways went to feederism and exactly why - it won't give me anything but I am just damn curios. I also wonder how much neurodivergence interfaces with feederism.

In our experience, feederism and neurodivergence almost overlap 1:1. But Kita's selection is biased, as being into hard science and video games means almost everyone she meets is a bit neurospicy.

You don't happen to have a link or a citation to the study? I would like to read it regardless of bias just because its something.

It's not a study. Nor do we have the data publically accessible. We just keep tabs on the community we personally run. It isn't feederism related, but because Kita runs it she has had her parade of (ex-)girlfriends through it.

Sorry to disappoint.

That sucks - I wish academics would take an intrest

Agreed! It would *invaluable* to kink spaces to have some good data, especially for encouraging safe and best practices.

Just having more hard info on how to gain would be awesome. Developing medicine to help us be safer in kink practice would be a boon, too.