I think I have a pretty high tolerance for learning about new and strange kinks based solely on reading Savage Love for the past few years on a semi-regular basis, but this definitely takes the cake (literally, in fact).

Through Salon, I learned about Feederism, which is basically men (or women for that matter) who get off on watching hugely obese people consume junk food in lingerie. According to the article, the world’s largest woman is making a name for herself not only by eating her way to death, but by doing so on the Internet, dressed “sexily”, and with other large women.

People pay up to $12 per viewing for the ability to watch this feat, which I find amazing because you couldn’t pay me enough money to watch it. I guess that’s just not what I’m into.

Wikipedia describes Feederism as a mutually advantageous relationship in which the Feeder (in this case the person logged onto the porn site) gets sexual gratification while the Feedee (the obese eater) gets gratification from the act of consuming the food in the first place. In addition to the obvious health risks of Feederism, there is the added risk of “stuffing” which is “eating until the abdomen is distended”.  This is also sexually satisfying, maybe because of the pressure on the body’s sexual organs, but falls dangerously into the category of “things people shouldn’t try at home”.


Another website dedicated to Feederism I found seems to be a support group of sorts and allows both Feedees and Feeders to tell their stories. One woman described how she became involved in Feederism and loved it initially.  As a Feeder, she had beautiful men after her and it gave her the opportunity to gain weight. The obvious problem for her became her lack of mobility, so she lost weight.

According to her story, the more weight she lost, the uglier she felt, which is backwards from a majority of the population and would seemingly put in her into a strange kind of Catch-22 situation that is a little tough to imagine for most people.

Feederims pornography first had its origins in magazines like BUF and Dimensions and a now-defunct website www. feeders.com.

Picture from Flickr.