This is from a discussion on another thread - thought it'd be better here.
Many of us seem to have started with Violet Beauregarde, but that's not so for me. For me it went like this:
I was in my school playground and noticed a group of girls playing a game where one of them was having so much blood transfused into her that it was inflating her. I found this strangely intriguing and started to daydream about it, and it eventually became a sexual thing for me.
As to discovering i wasn't alone, in 1996 i read a message on a public toilet wall which said Princess Di should have a football bladder inserted into her through her vagina and blown up with a bicycle pump, which was clearly a sexual thing for the writer, and i thought "aha!". Also, a friend of mine told me about a game she used to play with her friends when she was a child where the forfeit was to go into a shed and be pumped up anally, and people were strangely keen on the "punishment", at about the same time.
How about you? How did it start for you and how did you discover you weren't alone? I imagine for most people it's Violet and the internet, but of course i'm old!
Well, you definitely called it when you mentioned the Violet scene in Willy Wonka, haha. That was my first introduction to the concept.
I first discovered that it was sexual when I was in my early teens. I was home alone and incredibly bored, so I stuffed a pillow under my shirt and pretended it was my stomach, and ended up getting aroused by the concept of having a big belly. It escalated from there. XD
I first discovered that I wasn't alone when I found a YouTube video of someone inflating a ballon in a zentai suit under their clothes, which made me suspect maybe the person in the video had a fetish for it as well. I asked and, sure enough, he did! I thought it was really validating to discover that I wasn't the only freak who fantasized about myself or other guys blowing up like balloons.
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