http://www.cracked.com/article_17149_5-ridiculous-safe-work-fetishes.html
#3...
*sigh*
More incomming...
Thu, 03/19/2009 - 02:28
#1
More incomming...
Thu, 03/19/2009 - 03:01
#3
You would think the whole shock people with weird fetishes found online thing would eventually get old, but I guess not. Maybe in a decade or so people will eventually move past making lists like these. I think it is kind of funny in a sense that, a lot of people probably find out they have a fetish just by reading stuff like that.
Thu, 03/19/2009 - 06:41
#4
Looks like bodyinflation.org got mentioned again on G4, someone who works there must be REALLY interested in the subject.
Around 1:30 into it.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7mcso_attack-of-the-show-inflatable-belli_videogames
Thu, 03/19/2009 - 09:01
#5
flationable
They're getting awfully specific with these fetishes...Gas pedal fetish? Isn't that just a SLIGHTLY bit farfetched?
Thu, 03/19/2009 - 17:10
#6
Inflate123
The Cracked article makes it sound like this site is the ultimate destination for real-life pumpers, and I know we have several experienced folks for that here, but I always saw this is more of the fantasy angle, a place for pix, stories and discussion.
Thu, 03/19/2009 - 21:10
#7
citizensix wrote:
Looks like bodyinflation.org got mentioned again on G4, someone who works there must be REALLY interested in the subject.
Around 1:30 into it.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7mcso_attack-of-the-show-inflatable-belli_videogames
For those outside the US http://g4tv.com/attackoftheshow/wtf/65469/Inflatable-Bellies.html
Fri, 03/20/2009 - 13:35
#8
Yet another example of "did not do research". Did the person actually look at the website at all, considering the only "pumping" talk that goes on is in the forums, and even that's pretty sparse?
Misinformation aside, it's not as bad as I expected at least. Considering I don't go with the whole "pumping" thing, I'm not really the target anyway. I'm not sure whether they'd react better or worse towards the more fantastical aspect...
Sat, 03/21/2009 - 01:57
#9
I really like how the original article didn't even touch on some of the artwork or writing that is involved in this fetish. While the idea itself may be considered "SFW", I really, REALLY don't think a lot of the other stuff goes into that.
Also, it is nice to know that they assume that we're all pumpers. But you know, not everyone is willing to look into something that makes them uncomfortable... I'm guilty of that at times, myself.
Sat, 03/21/2009 - 11:44
#10
Personally I'm starting to think that the fetish this site is dedicated to and the fetish that the article was about are two different fetishes, there is less and less crossover between the two.
More and more when I do come across a youtube real life male belly inflation video (sometimes I click on them not knowing what it was gonna be) I notice that the people commenting, while ostensibly fellow inflationists are people I've not heard of. Occasionally I am contacted by someone on yahoo from that community who thinks we can talk about inflation together but I have no interest in their brand of inflation and when I show them my drawings of women inflating all over they aren't interested in it.
So in conclusion I'm not too bothered or surprised if they categorised inflation entirely by 'male pumpers'.
EDIT: OK I didn't notice they linked to this website, but that's fair enough, they probably saw a link to it on one of the youtube videos and didn't bother to actually check it out, cos if they had they would have seen very little male pumping.
Sat, 03/21/2009 - 15:52
#11
darth_clone19
I dont feel insulted cuz thats not my fetish. Air enemas are completely different from this, and Im sorry if somebody feels upset for me saying this.
Sat, 03/21/2009 - 22:03
#12
bostoncowboy
i could care less, if you havent noticed since we get mentioned in these articles more and more people are de-lurking. We win lol.
Sat, 03/21/2009 - 23:16
#13
Ok, I know I really just lurk a lot, and only de-lurk when there's really a conversation that is worth discussing, but...
This fetish is wierd, and you better grow up and accept that. People outside of it aren't going to understand it, nor are they really going to care about all the different "sections" this fetish has to offer. They see "wierd", and that's what they are going to take away from it.
I'm tired of these topics appearing, and everyone rumbling together, circling the wagons. Who freakin' cares? Enjoy what you enjoy.
Tue, 03/24/2009 - 03:18
#14
awittyname wrote:
Ok, I know I really just lurk a lot, and only de-lurk when there's really a conversation that is worth discussing, but...This fetish is wierd, and you better grow up and accept that. People outside of it aren't going to understand it, nor are they really going to care about all the different "sections" this fetish has to offer. They see "wierd", and that's what they are going to take away from it.
I'm tired of these topics appearing, and everyone rumbling together, circling the wagons. Who freakin' cares? Enjoy what you enjoy.
I have to agree with you. You can't honestly expect people who aren't already 'in' to understand it, and in all honest, I know it's weird. We have to learn to step back and to laugh at ourselves a little. We are who we are, they think we're weird, and there's nothing either side can do about it. Don't look for external acceptance, cause you're not going to get it. Just roll with the punches, shrug it off, and have fun.
Fri, 03/27/2009 - 12:58
#15
Really, the only egrerious part in that article, IMO, is calling this fetish SFW. Even on THIS site, there is a ton of material that'd be considered questionable or objectionable. And then there's sites like DA, which is filled with NSFW inflation stuff. I hope some poor sap doesn't get in trouble for looking into it at work.
Tue, 03/31/2009 - 00:04
#16
they just stole that info from the g4 article. Good job doing research cracked
Tue, 03/31/2009 - 01:29
#17
Again, why do you expect non-fetishists to give a fuck?
Tue, 03/31/2009 - 04:11
#18
This reminds me when that one news reporter decided to go under cover into a Furry Convention and found out... They aren't all crazies after all.
I guess we will have to wait til someone decided to seriously go 'under cover' and do good journalism, and not sensationalism.
Wed, 04/01/2009 - 07:25
#19
Inflate123
I would expect a news reporter to go in with an open mind. They're journalists. But we're seeing the set-em-up-knock-em-down laziness from bloggers and humor writers. They are paid to deliver snark, not truth. So you really gotta consider the source.
Thu, 04/02/2009 - 03:06
#20
He'll, I love cracked.com. It pokes fun at pretty much everything. The fact that they called us a doesn't have much effect on me. Were not going to get external validation, and that's pretty much that. Just learn to laugh at yourself a little and let it be.
Thu, 04/02/2009 - 23:56
#21
And its not like we can choose our fetishes, i was born with the inflation fetish, so its pretty much racist to make fun of some ones fetish. it maybe odd, but it may feel amazing to the fetisher. I dont think its dangerous unless you actually feel well enough to pop yourself and end your life permanently. so theres no real risk as long as you stay in a decent amount of air. Maybe one day they'll actually create a pill or something that'll make you elasticity and protect you from dying via inflation and become a blue berry shape. What a time we will have then :P if not, i'm sure plastic surgery will go so far as to do it. imagine being half balloon. :P
Fri, 04/03/2009 - 00:41
#22
You weren't born with an inflation fetish. The concept is far too concise to be something you were born with. However most of us were influenced by things we saw at a young age which somehow developed into something sexual, which is probably where it came from.
And it's not "racist" since fetishists aren't a race... We live in a world of free speech, and unfortunately that free speech allows people to insult things they don't understand or that they don't like the look of. However I'd say that's a price worth paying, considering that without free speech we probably wouldn't be here discussing this freely at all.
Besides, free speech also means that we have every right to tell such people how bigoted they may be.
Fri, 04/03/2009 - 01:20
#23
True, but its the only fetish i have, and I've had it since a young age and i don't care any other fetishes. its just stuck with me for a long time. Anyway, its not racist, but .. well, its hard to put it. lets just say that free speech is a pain in the arse at times.
Sat, 04/04/2009 - 06:44
#24
Inflate123
The term is discrimination, but I understand your point.
Sat, 04/04/2009 - 15:52
#25
Thank you for understanding.
Fri, 04/10/2009 - 22:03
#26
It's a fact of life. I spent a long time trying to stop myself feeling the way i do and i just couldn't do it, and eventually concluded that i just had to accept it. It did once go away for a few months spontaneously, but there's no point in denying it. I think you're born with it in the same sense as you might be born destined eventually to have facial hair or breasts, or maybe with a talent for poetry. One may not have an inborn talent to write poetry in English, but the same person growing up in Japan might become a Japanese poet rather than an English-language one. The potential is there: that's what i think it's like. I felt my fetishes sort of already existed "out there" and i discovered them like someone might discover a new species of flower, rather than invent one.
Sat, 04/11/2009 - 06:16
#27
nineteenthly wrote:
It's a fact of life. I spent a long time trying to stop myself feeling the way i do and i just couldn't do it, and eventually concluded that i just had to accept it. It did once go away for a few months spontaneously, but there's no point in denying it. I think you're born with it in the same sense as you might be born destined eventually to have facial hair or breasts, or maybe with a talent for poetry. One may not have an inborn talent to write poetry in English, but the same person growing up in Japan might become a Japanese poet rather than an English-language one. The potential is there: that's what i think it's like. I felt my fetishes sort of already existed "out there" and i discovered them like someone might discover a new species of flower, rather than invent one.
a teensy bit over doing it, but that's a more detailed idea.
Sat, 04/11/2009 - 11:55
#28
"Teensy bit over doing it" - story of my life!
Is overdoing it part of what we do? Big breasts are not enough, for example, so we need them the size of weather balloons?
Wow, that's a bit rediculous how they viewed the fetish and made it look, based on one aspect. Damn...