Totally agree. I'm not a deliberate gainer but I do LOVE it when I accidentally put on weight... especially how big and round my tummy gets. It just feels so naughty, and so satisfyingly pat-able and squishable. That realisation that I'm swelling, especially as I didn't mean to, gives me a heady out-of-control feeling. A sense of awe mixed with slight horror that's edgily fetishy. There's even something about the word "ballooning" that's sexy, haha. It's also why I like the idea/practice of stuffing/bloating, although I prefer to stuff others than do it myself, for some reason.

OMG! You shook hands with the sexiest man in the known universe! Dave is god!! You can never wash that hand now, inconveniently. Am well jel.

I love it when a boy tells me their weight or measurements. It doesn't even matter if they're skinny or fat, tbh, it's just the fact they're telling me something personal and maybe a bit embarrassing. The biggest frisson I get is if they are expressing some kind of inner conflict about their weight/size - I totally adore hearing about their efforts to lose/get back in shape. Especially if they try and fail... mwahaha

I missed this!

Fail.

But happy birthday for yesterday, Alice!

Miss R, thanks to you I now have a new item of vocabulary. Bradawl. Well I never.

On the belt question, I have trouble finding belts long enough at size 18-20, so gawd knows what the larger lady is supposed to do. But I just spotted that Toast have a "double length" belt this autumn:

www.toast.co.uk/product/accessories/FCAA6/BRAIDED+BELT.htm

It's meant to go twice round a size 8-16 person I'm guessing, so maybe it would go once round a lady of larger proportions? Might have to get some holes punched at the correct point, but a cobbler or shoe-bar should be able to do this.

Bit pricey but looks nice leather.

Draconis32, who showed me this site in the first place.

Axiomatic of course - it's long overdue, WHEN are we gonna do this?!

And Molly Ren, who amongst many other things saved me from a giant spider last night despite her being in DC and my being in London

You've created a new term! The FF profile will have to offer options of FA, Foodee, Feedee, Feeder, Mutual Gainer and Slug now, haha

Good random thought.

Perhaps someone with experience of other "special interest" or fetish sites could tell us whether those sites are any different? We may just have the statistically average amount for a website that is, let's face it, considerably bound up with bodies/attraction/sexual themes. Not that there's anything wrong with that (I love it) and not that there aren't other valid & serious matters discussed here (before the intense folk jump down my throat). Sexy stuff on the Internet is always gonna attract the creepers.

I agree there also seems to be a high proportion of socially dysfunctional characters but (a) again, it's the Internet, we could all be out socialising &/or making society better, but we're not, we're electing to commune in virtual reality, so there's an element of self-selected weirdness anyway, and ( the older I get the more I realise that no-one I know is actually normal, haha.

It might be a gazillion to one but it has happened to me! I accidentally ran into someone from here, in London of all the overcrowded places, miles from where either of us lives!