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File:Bivens2.jpg ^ Christopher Bivens, a known macrophiliac. If you're fat, you might want to avoid any Office Depots lest you attract his unwanted attention, just fyi.

Macrophilia is the sexual attraction to a larger person. Macrophilia has two main forms. These are the shrinking of self, or the enlargment of others. Some in the Online communities may be opposed to one form or the other based on their own personal preference, but both are technically forms of Macrophila. While it is not the exact opposite of microphilia, it is close enough to be consider opposites. These phenomena are two sides of the same coin, with macrophiles fantasizing about larger beings; microphiles about smaller beings; and a crossover contingent fantasizing about both. Macrophiliac fantasies seem to take several forms depending on the individual: with focus on hands, feet, breasts, genitals and / or mouth of the object of desire, involving either sexual or asexual encounters, with or without consent of either party.

Since the existence of giants and giantesses is strictly fantastic, macrophiles must depend on their own imaginations or pornography to fulfil such desires (morphed pictures, montages, self made videos). Lately a program called Poser has been used to create digital simulations of macrophilic situations. Such production of macrophilic pornographic material (both heterosexual and homosexual) has become a growing enterprise in the first decade of the 21st century.

Macro Community

A large section of a nascent heterosexual oriented online community refers to its fetish as “GTS”, an abbreviation for “giantess”. Within some communities erotica and pornographic imagery are grouped into two main categories: “Growth”, in which someone has been enlarged and interacts with a normal-sized environment (“MEGA” being a subset in which the giant person can range from 200′ tall to planetary proportions), and “Shrink”, which documents the intercourse between a person (generally male) reduced to miniature stature and a normal-sized person (who is generally female in the heterosexual content and male in the homosexual one). Though exceptions exist, the majority of heterosexual graphic images and literature focus on the male perspective, where the man is the smaller person. It seems much less common for women to develop this fetish entirely on their own, though many may learn to enjoy participating in it after being introduced to the phenomenon by male fetishists.

The macrophilia paraphilia exists in both homosexual and heterosexual communities, and across a wide spectrum of cultures. While online representation is predominantly English-language, there exists a burgeoning, prolific Japanese bloc of macrophilaic/microphilic artwork and literature, and French and German communities are growing as well.

Aspects of Macrophilia

Macrophilia and microphilia also refer to sexual attraction towards a person of height but not to an unreal, physically impossible extent. These traits are almost universally possessed by both men and women, as many people regard height as playing a role in sexual attraction. People with Macrophilia or microphilia commonly might want the larger person to do things to them, such as step or stomp on them, which might be considered sadism/masochism, and/or crush fixations, which is a sexual thrill is gained by the act of crushing, being crushed, or seeing a small creature crushed beneath a foot, a shoe, buttocks, being sat upon, etc.. A more specific subset is macrophilic podophilia (foot fetishism), in which pleasure is obtained from small creatures being stepped on or any way to flatten the subject, eat them (Vorarephilia), stash them somewhere on the giant’s body or in a piece of clothing, be bathed in another's sexual fluids, or attempt frotteurism, either masturbation by rubbing the smaller person’s body against the giant person’s genitals or entering the person’s genitals. Macrophiles might also enjoy witnessing the larger person cause destruction of the area around them. Some macrophiles derive particular enjoyment from seeing cars being crushed by giant men or women, particularly if crushed under their feet. Men in particular may fantasise about being giants themselves, demolishing cities and crushing cars.

Origins

Macrophilia usually manifests itself in very early childhood, when children with macrophilic tendencies often experience a sexual or pseudo-sexual response to giants (e.g.-in fairytales, animated cartoons, movies, etc.) long before physical puberty -- but this is not commonly known, because the fetish has been (until recently) considered a “guilty pleasure”. Macrophiles are extremely shy about their tendencies, even among sympathetic peers, and to a greater degree than other fetishists commonly in fear of being judged and ridiculed. Recently, however, this fetish has become more widely acceptable to others. Outsiders frequently suppose the macrophile phenomenon stems from mother- or father-lust or an inordinate desire to return to childhood, citing the giant’s or giantess' impatience with the tiny man, or the tiny man’s tendency towards misbehaviour, though many macrophiles are quick to reject and dismiss these theories as uninformed generalizations that miss the mark. Also, recurrent macrophilic themes of domination and/or violence committed by the giant(s) are often misinterpreted as masochistic self-hatred and identity-negation -- when, in fact, they are primarily invoked to emphasize the power of the dominator over the dominated.

Macrophilia — just as other fetishes — might blend or share common ground with other paraphilias or particular sexual behaviours. There also exist, for example, macrophile furries/macrofurs who may be found in online communities sharing artwork, histories, experiences or points of view regarding that interest. It may touch upon vorarephilia in which the giant devours the smaller subject whole. Frequently online heterosexual macrophile communities share links with Amazon fetishism, featuring women possessed of overly developed musculature who enjoy abusing hapless male victims either through overbearing sexual acts or outright physical violence and torture, often with vengeance or misandrony as motivation. Another paraphilia that shows up from time to time is a spin on voyeurism, where a tiny person is in the presence of a larger person who is unaware of his or her presence. There are dozens of other obscure crossovers, such as the very rarely heard of macro infantism, where someone imagines the larger person wearing a diaper and might enjoy the act of the larger person putting the smaller person in their diaper and urinating or defecating on them.

See Also

  • Lava Dome Five - Introduction to Macrophilia, by Samuel Ramses, M.D., Ph.D.

Macrophile Communities

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