I feel like I've always been into this. I mean as a little kid I was always into this. My favorite episodes of shows were always the ones with inflation and I'd always play with my friends about being inflated. Hell, even at 3 years old my favorite color was blue because of the blueberry scene in my favorite movie. And as a teenager I discovered that I found the idea of being inflated sexually appealing. I feel like I was born liking this. Do you think you were born with this desire or that it was something developed later?
born with this desire?
Thu, 03/29/2012 - 23:07
#1
born with this desire?
Thu, 03/29/2012 - 23:55
#3
Certainly for me the potential was there from an early age, but there were several stages:
1. Even as a baby, there were signs that i felt strange about certain things, judging by what others said later. I can't explore this in more detail as it would involve revealing too much to my family.
2. There was a stage when my imagination and pretend-play as a child ran riot, probably like many children. In fact, i see sex generally as a bit like the adult version of a game played for fun with a special playmate. It's what adults to instead of pretend play, though they may do that too and it also has huge emotional significance.
3. I discovered the notion of human inflation in the playground when some girls were playing an inflation game with each other and it intrigued me. There were various other things which also interested me strangely, which became sexualised later. I think they're the germs of possible paraphilias, some of which went unexplored, one example being bondage - no interest in whips now but back then there was, though it never became properly sexual. This is crucial i think - it could have done but i chose not to go there for some reason.
4. The "oh shit, i'm a pervert" moment when it was borne in upon me that my sexuality was really unusual followed by two things: a desperate and not very successful attempt to force myself to find women more than slightly attractive (it was OK later but the desires pre-date "normal" sexuality) and an awareness that i was turned on by a whole load of things other than just people i found good-looking, and a weird sense of loyalty to the idea of balance between all the stuff that turned me on and not wanting to neglect one turn-on in favour of another.
5. It narrows down to just the two: inflation and tracksuit fetishism. There are mild elements of other stuff going on but i tend to ignore them unless someone else wants to go there.
So i wouldn't say i was exactly born with it as i have the example of tracksuit fetishism in front of me the whole time too, and since they only came into existence in the twentieth century it makes no sense to suppose there were somehow cavemen who were really into certain fetishes for objects or concepts unavailable at the time such as robots, PVC or spandex, and in the same way, although the elements which eventually lead someone to become an inflation fetishist are there in some people, their environment must make it more likely, and even then there may be a kind of winnowing down. Then again, there's an Australian aboriginal myth about a frog swallowing all the water in the world and there are Palaeolithic Venus figurines and hunter-gatherer societies which prize obesity. The nature of inflation is that it involves a fluid or other substance inside someone's body, and in the case of air there wasn't even awareness that it existed as a form of matter until recent centuries, so inflation fetishism with air is probably a fairly modern thing (e.g. Jonathan Swift). That means it isn't literally something you're born with but a tendency which is encouraged by a particular environment, but the tendency is there from the start (but can go in other directions).
Fri, 03/30/2012 - 02:10
#4
When I saw Inspector Gadget and his coat I knew this was something special to me. When I saw the Josie and Pussycat scene I allmost came :D (got all dizzy and sweathed allmost, I was no way prepared for that scene).
But since I was only 11 or 12 years old when it happened I didn't know it was a sexual thing. When I was 15 years old I knew it was a sexual thing.
I never saw the Willy Wonka scene until the bodyinflation page came on the internet. If I had seen that scene before the others I may have been into bodyinflation instead of just suit-inflation
Fri, 03/30/2012 - 02:47
#5
I prefer to think of it as becoming a sexual thing. There are a whole load of things which have that potential but don't develop, then maybe a couple do. I also got into it way before i saw Willy Wonka, but wow, when i first saw that i was just blown away by it!
Fri, 03/30/2012 - 08:15
#6
Must be something that triggers you when you are really young. Like young kids who got raped tend to end up as pedophiles. Not saying all, but many do. But many of them know that their urge will hurt someone so they never practise it.
It is scary how impulses we see or experiences when we are young will shape our life
Sat, 03/31/2012 - 12:22
#7
jonathan856
you got that right.
the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.
I remember hiding this from My parents and being terrified they would find out.
Fri, 03/30/2012 - 09:13
#8
For me it was the various inflations I saw in cartoons and tv shows as a kid, plus (wierd data coming) those scenes from a few cartoons where the villain was done in by actually swallowing a bomb or such, swelled up and exploded. The idea of inflation plus total destuction was for some reason intriguing. The fact that I was already a chubby kid also contributed to it.
By the way, how many people here were of a normal weight when you discovered this? How many overweight, and did it contribute towards it for you?
Fri, 03/30/2012 - 09:49
#9
I was underweight (about 20% below the lowest weight considered healthy for my age and size) throughout childhood and until about 25. Since then (now 44) i've slowly gained weight and am now somewhat heavier than average. However, after a spate of self-inflation sessions my belly bulges even when empty for a few weeks and takes a while to go back to normal, so i sometimes look overweight even though i'm not.
Fri, 03/30/2012 - 13:27
#10
Blue_Eyes
Like others it started when I was really young (Violet Beauregarde and other cartoons that involved inflation) then when puberty hit and I had access to the internet it clicked.
Fri, 03/30/2012 - 16:21
#11
Definitely Violet blueberry scene and the All That inflation scene was what got me drawn in...
Fri, 03/30/2012 - 23:25
#12
I'm glad I'm not the only one to think that maybe this was something that can begin to appeal to someone in early childhood and that had a childhood where they were intrigued by inflation :) oh and by the way, in regards to the weight thing, I was underweight until about 10 years ago (so when I was about 10 years old) but since then I've been slightly overweight. I wonder if this has anything to do with it?
Sat, 03/31/2012 - 17:56
#13
Inflate123
I felt these weird urges long before I knew they were sexual. My earliest memory was of a dream I had when I was about two years old, and I was a balloon. I lived with bizarre ideas for more than a decade before hormones kicked in and I went "Oh! Boobs!"
So, born with it? Maybe.
My first inflation love was puuko-chan from Sailor Moon and, I remember, the first time i saw that was at 3-4 year old. The next eighteen Year i wanted and still want inflate girls and nothing more!