(REDO!)Poll time #14! Pop or not? (Do you prefer popping in general or no popping?)

I've been into popping for as long as I know myself, been playing into popping as a child with other children before it even became anything sexual. Then been drawing popping in school when it was already a bit arousing - and thus something to be quiet about. A few classmates who occasionally saw my drawings laughed, while my closest friends shared the funny aspect of my fantasy and at times spotted ladies who could use some inflation before I did. Then, well, it became my fetish - until I found Maria.

When I got married, we role-played popping a few times - and it made me a strictly no-popping fan.

But it seems my attitudes are changing again - personally I blame the whole bunch of exceptionally bright explosive writers who flourished in the last year or two: LimitBurster, Pump1131, InflationFetishGuy - and the return of the grands like Carnatic back into writing. Or maybe it's because in the fantasy world I now imagine they simulate popping - experiencing the fun part while actually staying in one piece, alive and well. I'm not brave enough yet to rp with Maria her popping (alas, it's her fancy), but if things go where they go, I might like popping again some day.

Not a fan of popping myself. I like the idea of being helpless, full and tight all over. Sexual orgasim is all the release i need. Popping is death to me.

Chose Other, I'm pretty much neutral on popping nowadays. I'd prefer, realistically, not to pop since I'd obviously die but part of me would enjoy the sensation very much. I used to be strictly against and I have no idea what made me change my mind, but now I just don't care! If my inflator wants me to live and stay a big sphere, that's fine. If my inflator wants me to explode like an overinflated balloon, that's fine too. Afterall, I'm the inflatee, what sort of input could I offer to that beautiful person behind the pump... and hopefully also behind my billowing belly, slowly disappearing out of sight as I swell bigger and bigger. Will I pop or not? I think that's what makes it even more exciting!

So I'm pretty much ambivalent and, although I'd rather live the rest of my days as a big balloon person stuck inside someone's garage, I let my inflator decide my fate. I like to ask them before what their preference is but really I allow them to choose by giving them that flexibility. I am but a simple fortunate - or unfortunate - soul whose lips happen to be rapped around the nozzle of a high-powered air pump. I have no control over that! I might as well accept my fate then. As for artwork, I like both but I just love pics of people about to explode or stopping just before then. I'd quite fancy that in real life to be honest, to be inflated to my absolute maximum only to stop right before my impending boom. Exciting!

I won't open up the can of worms I did before, I promise. Anyway, I'm inclined to agree with doubleintegral and Bubblez101 on their views, for the most part. Fantasy wise, it doesn't really matter. It's a fantasy, you can pretty much do whatever you want. As long as the popping makes sense to the story line, it's fine by me. I personally do not enjoy the gorey, messy kind of descriptions, especially in an erotic setting. That kind of thing just pulls me right out of it. By the same token, the unrealistic, cartoonish kinds where the person explodes into little pieces of shredded rubber that flutter down to the ground like leaves are also not very arousing. But, both have their place in stories or roleplay that doesn't particulary focus on the erotic aspect.

I guess what I'm really trying to get to is that, when it comes to fantasy anyway, popping is acceptable to me as long as it makes sense to the situation. The cheerleader who inflates her rival and pops her because she was a bitch to her makes sense to me. The guy who pops himself or his girlfriend/wife because they want "the ultimate release" just doesn't feel right to me. Everything up to the popping--the senstation of stretching, the increasing pressure, begging not to explode--I actually do find arousing. But, the actual pop should only be reached if it makes sense to the story.

I don't like popping. Popping=death in my mind and there's nothing sexy about death haha.

rubbery shards, nothingness or ever a fireball (depending on the gas medium) are all what I call "clean."

Ah, it's all about popping for me! But then this interest of mine started when I was a very little girl, when I had a fear of balloons because I was always scared they'd go off bang unexpectedly..I wasn't into sudden loud noises. Plus I had a recurring nightmare of a scary man popping me with a pin. So I always had odd fantasies about my body being a balloon, and then women in general, and had fear/excitement about the idea of what it would be like to suddenly pop and be reduced in an instant to a burst balloon-skin. So it has always been very much about popping with me...popping like a balloon, into rubbery scraps (hence why I always draw "balloongirls"), or being blasted out of existence..messy popping with viscera flying everywhere does nothing for me.