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I myself am lucky that I happen to live in Finland were every child starts to learn english in third or fourth grade, and we don’t dup any movies of shows to finnish but those meant to really young children, so I was able to learn about this stuff from a pretty young age. There is basically nothing in internet about feederism/ belly stuffing in finnish

Glad that you’ve found the community even though threre is a language barrier!

The theory that when under stress you desire a larger partner on a primal level is, as mentioned, widely held. It's not only an indication that they likely have access to more food, but also seen as an indication they are stronger and more likley to be able to protect you, and also likely healthier and able to produce and care for offspring. It's a survival thing.

However, I think stress in childhood is less likely to be the reason for becoming a chubby chaser or gainer, and more likely a cause for eating disorders developing, and eating disorders aren't the same as feederism and fat fetishism. They are very different and separate things that for some people may have an overlap, but I think it's a stertch to say that all cases of feederism and fat appreciation/admiration/fetishism stemmed from childhood stress.

Not every person that is into feederism or weight gain has an eating disorder, and there are an awful lot of people with an eating disorder that are not into feederism or weight gain at all and hate what their eating habits do to their body.

I think it's more likely that the kinds and sizes of bodies we are attracted to is just part of who we are, in much the same way that whatever gender we are attracted to is just part of who we are, and it's social conditioning that makes it taboo and in turn makes people feel ashamed of their attraction. I've no doubt there are swathes of people out there that hide and suppress their attractions and desires because they are terrified of being judged and ridiculed if anyone were to find out.

You're not wrong. I've been on this site for a long time, and it used to be almost exclusively Americans. Although I don't think feedism/FA culture is an extremely widespread thing, I'd bet there are a lot of people throughout the world that would be interested if they knew about it.

That being said, I think the community is growing (pun intended), and I feel it'll continue to expand internationally in the future (again, pun intended).

The fact that there are so many Americans on a British site just sends me. Hilarious, really.

From what I have seen, it has grown (no pun intended) expoentially in the recent years. I think it always was a major fetish, thus why mukbang and such were so popular, i think it is in fact one of THE more popular fetishes.

This is not only judging by the subreddit activities, the sites centered around it, etc. It sincerely is not an "underground" fetish.

A while back porn hub released this, I would love to a comparison on it. Maybe someone could message them and ask to update it they do this stuff all time.
https://www.pornhub.com/insights/feederism-fetish

I took a look at the statistic and I'm astonished how Austria is among the top 3 countries searching for feederism related porn. Where are all the Austrian feedees then??

The growth in Americans’ waistlines in recent years is sure bringing it out of the shadows :-) Especially with womens’ butts and bellies, which have never been fatter than they are now!

Interesting stat at the end, if Finland really searches the second most feederism stuff from Pornhub, we are criminally under represented here 😅

According to the old stats, Russia is in the top 1, but why am I still without a feeder?