Inflatable stuffing scene on BBC's 'Casualty'

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Inflatable stuffing scene on BBC's 'Casualty'

It's not exactly the most fantastic inflation scene ever, but it was mainstream, prime-time British telly, so that kind of makes it special.  There was a lesbian wedding on BBC-1's 'Casualty' at the weekend where one of the wives was heavily pregnant, so her three bridesmaids and her wife-to-be all stuffed vinyl inflatables up their dresses for empathy's sake.  There were rubbery balloony noises involved too.  Here are a couple of screencaps:

http://s29.postimg.org/9u6owhkzr/threebellies.jpg

http://s27.postimg.org/z9yaibbjn/empathy.jpg

It also got me thinking.  What would happen if they covered a medical emergency like a ruptured colon or stomach from an inflation fetishist?  It would publicise it but presumably also demonise it.  Would we want that sort of publicity?

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carnatic

I presume we're talking entirely hypothetical here, because I can't really see Casualty covering the fetish-related-injury topic on prime-time TV.

There tends to be a lot of concern on these forums of whether something bad will draw publicity and give a negative view of the fetish to people learning for the first time that such a thing exists, like people worrying that some serial killer or will turn out to have the fetish.

Personally I feel that if such a thing happened, most people wouldn't care a lot, unless the media were dead intent on drawing the parallel between a fetish and negative outcomes... but plenty of people have fetishes and know fine well it doesn't make them deranged.

Also I kind of don't really care, my fetish is private so if something happened that had people talking about it in a negative manner, I might feel slight discomfort but it wouldn't change anything, I'm not about to tell anyone what I get up to in my private time.

Blue_Eyes
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Why some of you are persistant on trying to get a sexual fetish "mainstream" is beyond me.

Those of you who volunteered to be injected with praying mantis DNA, I've got some good news and some bad news. Bad news is we're postponing those tests indefinitely. Good news is we've got a much better test for you: fighting an army of mantis men.

airtankgirl5
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^  This.

Who cares, it's a fetish!

 

Another Canadian Guy
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If I was to take a stab at it Blue_Eyes, I'd assume that it's to grow our numbers and have more people to talk to about it. It's really not a big deal to me but I see why it is to some people.

 

Also I think not on the latter Nineteenthly. The issue is that our fetish is already fairly obscure, unless your educated on many fetishes most people don't really know about it. If people started to find out about it and it was first linked to danger, it really paints the whole community as (insert your adjective to describe "insane" or "stupid"), even the members who don't actually inflate themselves but just like the fantasy of it.

And some people might find it's beneficial in that it migh add members who didn't know about it, but I think there's a much better way than having injuries be the first thing they learn about. Furries already had a rough launch with dramatic television airings from only a few people, and that was just on sexual fetishism. Now picture an entire community painted as something else because someone foolishly burst their insides. Yeah, I'd rather just being relatively unknown if I had to choose.

(Not on here too often, replies might be slow.)

Lopni

^ +1

There was a medical error in some remote village a few years back - they did laparoscopy that required puffing stomach with CO2 under complete aenesthesia. And for some reason the medics didn't check the pressure so poor lady inflated and popped for real, and died while they tried to patch her back together. Some people went to jail, relatives rallied a campaign, internet and media boiled for weeks why medicine in tiny remote places is so underfunded as compared to cities, it ended with another reform, and so on. All in all - a totally horrible story.

And I recall when it happened - it was everywhere nationwide, a few journalists did say - hey, popping is a fetish, so may be medics were maniacs and committed murder on purpose? But nobody in that horrible story ever said anything about entire fetish group. Nobody.

It just doesn't come to mind, you know? Why would you think that a person is a potential murderer just because the guy who wears the same socks is? ^_^

Also, can we please steer to the first part of OP?

Personally I think the idea of supporting pregnant bride by wearing balloons on the ceremony is adorable!

nineteenthly

Thanks. I was actually focussing on the first bit. I probably should've started two threads.  I personally love the idea of being a bridesmaid at that wedding and having someone else suggest the idea, then "having" to do it. Yay!

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airtankgirl5
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I'd do it.  Solidarity, yo!

emmajanetattoominx (not verified)

Do you know what episode it is? Or have a link?

I have found a ton of episodes that are from last week like, series 30 ep 2-12 Any help?

xx

nineteenthly

Yes, it was last week's.  I didn't post a link because people outside the UK might get frustrated.  Also, it's only very brief.

 

Here it is:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b06r158p/casualty-series-30-13-estranged

ISTR about seven minutes in.

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