How do you feel about your inflation fetish?

I kept it hidden for a long time.  The first time i told someone everything was a few weeks into my first relationship.  I've told other people from time to time, but after a while i stopped because i decided i was using the disclosure as a surrogate for having sex with the people i told.  I have now got past this and see it as something which i don't advertise publicly but sort of take the attitude that this is how i am, it's nothing to be ashamed of, and if people push at the unlocked door i've left on the internet, they will find out.  You can't really be "in your face" about it because it's intrusive to other people to flaunt your sexuality at them, but the reason for my username, "nineteenthly", which is obviously not inflation related, and partly for the YouTube channel, is so that if people really do dig deep enough, they will find out who i really am from either side.  I think this is about as far as i can go appropriately.  So, not ashamed, not intrusive, is the path i'm trying to tread.

i talk about it on the net when i can hide my identity. i've never openly verbally communicated with someone about it

I consider it a small part of what makes me a good person.

I used to be terrified some one mite find out but now I'm not so worried :)

I keep it for myself in general. I talk about i with my girlfriend and try to assume it more deeper and larger if I  may say.
I told some friends about it and it doesn't seem to directly affect our relation, it sometimes comes as a play on words but nothing more and it's rare.

I'm mostly shy about it and sometimes ashamed, feeling like a psycho weirdo a little bit sometimes but it's getting rare and nuanced with the time, not really embarrassing.
What is getting embarrassing those days for me is to make it understandable to my girlfriend. It became a personal challenge : Get my girlfriend into it, ring her bell about it, find her in there. That's somehow quite selfish and it's setting the bar may be too high but I just can't let this idea go. Inflation is a part of my life, inspiring and emulating it in so many ways, not all but some fundamental ones. Many people know me for this, mostly regarding my drawings.

I enjoy my inflation fetish but it's just that a fetish I don't go broadcasting to everyone I know what I'm into or anything. My friends know I'm into big tits but other than that I keep the expansion part to myself. I'm not ashamed of it or anything it's just I know it's not a normal thing to be into so people who don't get it would be weirded out by it so it's just easier to keep it to myself. I enjoy it and I have lots of people online who share my fetish and I can talk to them about it and that's good enough for me.

I've only confided in a few people about it—all of them women. I feel safer talking to women about it because with other men I feel like there's pressure for me to like the same things they do. One of the things women don't realize is that as much as there is pressure for them to look a certain way, there is as much pressure for men to only like that look. Otherwise you're a freak. So I only confide in a few trusted female friends about it, and only if I think it's appropriate in the context of our relationship.

The reason I tell them is basically for reassurance that I'm not an awful person. I've never told a sexual partner about it, never told anyone because I thought she would be into it or get me off or anything. My few conversations about it have always focused on the topic of whether I'm insane or not.

Known in full to my wife; secret in the rest of my life. :)

I used to feel very embarrased and dirty about it, but since my boyfriend knows and I can ask him to inflate me, I feel more comfortable now. Also finding this forum made me realise what those feelings are. (I told my boyfriend after finding out) I'm very glad I found it and that there are more people who likes the same!

I just wish I didn't have to keep it secret. Keeping secrets is not nice. I'm weird and proud of it, but nobody knows how weird I REALLY am (this is the weirdest thing about me).

I used to fear the discovery of my inflation fetish above everything else. I also used to fear that people would discover that I liked large women. Up until mid high school I kept the latter attraction a total secret, even going so far as to coax myself into being attracted to "normal" women. I had a couple of flings with one woman and I was terrified to tell anyone.

I was also heavily bullied in elementary school and middle school, and know how easy it is for young undeveloped minds to be cruel to those who are diferent.

I'm now a college student, and my friends and family are well aware of the plus-sized girls I date. Funny thing is, I can't really remember ever "coming out" to anyone about it; I just sorta stopped hiding it. I just realized somewhere along the way that this attraction was a part of me. It wasn't a phase or something that would go away in time. And I also realized that I didn't want it to go away, even if it could. There are immensely fascinating beauties one can find in a woman with curves. I also realized that those bullying snot-nose brats who picked on me have they've all grown up, and have bigger things to worry about than some bullshit alpha-male instinct on the playground.

Being attracted to larger women is more accepted than inflation fetishism, and much more well known; I realize that. But fetishes are a bit different, as has been said earlier on this forum. It's not like physical preferences, and it's definately not like gender preferences. Those are much more essentially about life, orientation infinitely especially, because they're in regards to the person you're attracted to, not what you want to do with them. My family doesn't know, and they're not going to know, because it's not their business, quite frankly.

I recently told my best friend,who knew about my attraction to large women not long after we met, about my fetish just recently, simply because he got on the topic of fetishes. He was totally cool with it; in fact, he has friends who into things that, to me, are a lot weirder than body inflation. But it doesn't change my opinion of them. And I've told some female friends and GFs in the past about it. Some of my dates even indulged it and had fun! Some of these girls I've broken up with on less than okay terms. Do I have that lingering fear that they'll tell people? Yeah, but honestly, it was worth it. And who are they gonna tell, their friends? I doubt they care that much about some guy's kicks; you'd be surprised how such gossip is Really not interesting. As it stands, no one's told anybody anything, simply out of respect, or the aforementioned not really caring.

Long story short, if you love someone in that special way and you want to explore this fetish with them, let em know. And don't think its this terrible thing you have to keep locked away from the light of day; as it stands, its just something personal and intimate, like sex should be. Don't go waving it around, but don't be ashamed of it either. Haha, penis innuendo!

And Pro tip: The great thing about inflation fetishes are that they're obscure enough for people to not catch on that they're sexual. Most people just get confused, and if someone finds a stray piece of inflation art you can just say it was a comic page, or something.

(Sorry for the long post. If it's a problem I can condense it. Just lemme know.)

 Well, it's still a bit difficult for me to say that I like to use this gag a lot. But my goal is to create stuff and make it appealing to both us and the no-inflation people. I showed this game I was working on, "The Antibody", to some no-inflation people and they thought it was pretty original.

I look at mine as a Jeckyl and Hyde perspective. Jeckyl being pleasing, sensual, amazing when done on a role play online session. But most of the time, the Hyde is where my libido is so down, you need to travel halfway into the Earth to dig it out. I really don't have to think about it, at times I would feel uncomfortable with the various related thoughts and images that come in and don't want to associate/connect it to people I know. And it also makes it harder on others to try to get any mood out of me to do anything.

So, I'm not sure if it's more of a mental dysfunction or sexual dysfunction on how little my mood comes around.

before, i wouldn't tell anyone about it, totally in fear of the consequences i.e. rumours and bullying. but i have told people, even my girlfriend ( now ex). when i told her i was in tears, thinking it would be all over because i was weird, and then a few months later we were even using it in the bedroom! even going on this site has made me feel a lot more confident with myself and think it's great that we can get together to show eachother we are not alone :). yet, i still dont go out publically; i can see it appearing on the front page of newspapers and magazines everywhere. i urge all people out there who are awkward with this fetish to realise that it doesnt make you " wrong" or "dirty": it makes us different, which is better than being another copy of what society wants us to be. being unique isnt bad, it makes the world a more interesting place and less boring place: feel sorry for those who laugh or don't understand, they can stay in their little worlds while we explore a much larger world! ( yes i meant larger was a pun ^^)

Since to me, all of my enjoyment of body inflation IS sexual in nature..I'm private IRL about it. One person has heard me talk about it, in-depth before, and he was not only loving and accepting of the kink, he ALSO loves it!

Talking online about it is another thing, tho. I can be more open about it, but don't think i'm ashamed of my kinks and fetishes. I am -hardly- a prude, but I -am- private.

I've struggled with it most of my adult life, I've had 2 serious boyfriends and i could not bring myself to tell either one, my boyfriend now who i love more than anything and i feel that keeping this from him is sort of a betrayal, but at the same time i know that in telling him, it would probably mean the end for us, but all of that dosn't stop me from watching Willy Wonka everytime its on tv ;p, so like Biff above said, very much the two-edged sword.

I will enjoy when Im in a specific "mood". I have many fetishes and what I find attractive will vary severevly from foot fetish, vore, sneezing, belching/farting and even just regular girls . Mostly I am attracted to women but occastionaly men and most bizzarely myself. I feel very ashamed the majority of the time but when alone sometimes I will switch and find it super sexualy attractive.

I dont like it, but for some reason it continues