What Do You Call A Gainer Who Wants To Be Fed By A Muscular Man?

I was wondering if there is a term for a gainer who wants to be fed by a muscular man, medical/slang/whatever.

Thanks for your time,
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The "clinical" terms used to describe what some call "kinks" and "fetishes" became popular in the late 1800's which is when the field of “psychology” was developing.  In many ways, this was due to an attempt to move away from the legal and religious terminology that dominated at that time, classifying certain behaviors as “perversions” or “sodomy.”  There was a surge of what are called "neologisms" (literally "new" - "words")many of which were invented by my old friend (mayherestinpeace) John Money, a sexologist who worked at John Hopkins University.   I first worked with John at the Kinsey Institute.  To be perfectly frank, there are some in the sex research community who felt John went “overboard” in manufacturing exotic and pedantic terms for very specific issues of sexuality.  John, who was “sex positive” in his outlook wanted to use the term paraphilia (meaning “beyond standard love”) to deliberately move away from a judgmental way of talking about eroticism, but frankly, this never caught on.  It remains a term of diagnosis within the medical model.

Many of these behaviors were not commonly known about (until the invention of the internet, where you can find just about anything on sexuality) because they only came to the attention of medical professionals if something went “wrong.”  I recall a specific instance in our clinic where a patient came in who for years had inserted piano wire into his urethra (the lay term is “pee-hole”) as part of eroticism.  He was quite satisfied with doing this, and the only reason he came to the clinic was because his urethra had become infected.  In 1980, “paraphilia” became the standard term through the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the “bible” of mental health professionals—in other words, this is the term we “have” to use for insurance purposes in medical records.

In point of fact, from a clinical perspective, there are only a handful of paraphilias used in the diagnosis of a patient, focusing on generalized behavior.  These include such behaviors as pedophilia and exhibitionism.   As you can easily see, this is where there’s an often uncomfortable overlap between the legal system and mental health.  Does that make sense?  If I diagnose someone with exhibitionism, it’s often because he (and it’s usually a he) is exposing himself to non-consenting audiences, which frequently results in his arrest. 

 This is one of the reasons I try so hard to educate people to use terms like “kinky” to describe what floats their boat because some of the clinical terms may have some very unfortunate legal implications.  While there are relatively few paraphilias listed in the DSM, there are over 500 specific terms for erotic related behaviors, some of which are rarely seen, like the guy with piano wire.

To the best of my knowledge (probably because this community started receiving more attention after John died) no one has bothered to use a Latin or Greek word base to define various forms of "feederism."  The closest is Vorarephilia, which simply based on the Latin, should mean a kinky love for eating, but as you no doubt know, has taken on the meaning of devouring (a word that has the same Latin root) or swallowing someone whole, being swallowed or devoured in such a way, or to watch this being done. The Latin root doesn't simply mean "to eat" but is like the difference in German between "essen" and "freesen"--humans "eat" (essen) but "wild animals" will "wolf down" food (fressen).

In current usage,  sthenolagnia is a kink defined as “Sexual arousal from displaying Muscles.”  You would therefore be aroused by a form of Sthenolagnic Feederism.

One of the problems I have as a therapist, is the majority of clinical terms are "disease based"--in other words, they are used to describe what's "gone wrong" or something that's "sick."  For me, the word "feederism" doesn't have that connotation.

Just so, there is the word "sitophilia" where someone is aroused by food, which would include eating, or the erotic use of food--for example, smearing chocolate on your partner's nipples and then licking the chocolate off.  But words with the suffix "-philia" are not intended to be "healthy" words.  For me to diagnose someone with sitophilia would mean he or she is incapable of developing a healthy relationship with another human being, just as someone with podophilia is someone who only wants to use a woman’s shoe for sexual purposes and doesn’t care about the woman who owns the shoe.

The suffix “lagnia” is focused on the act or the behavior involved.  With this reasoning, we might substitute sitolagnia for sitophilia, which would remove the “dysfunctional” diagnosis.   This is a long way to go for the term “sthenolagnic sitolagnia” to describe someone who is turned on by being fed by a well muscled feeder.  In all honesty, I suspect if you “ran this by” a random psychologist or sex researcher, their first attempt to make sense of the term probably wouldn’t be  a gainer who enjoys being fed by a muscle stud, but if I published on the topic, I could justify using it.  For example, sitophilia is sometimes used to describe the use of a human body as a “table” from which eat food, such as sushi.  This was not the original meaning of the word, and certainly John Money would have loved to come up with something more specific.  Hope this helps—in my experience, sthenolagnic sitolagnia is often expressed as an interest in the gaining community.

Oh, jeez—now I suppose someone is going to write in and ask the clinical term for a gainer who wants to be fed by a left-handed fat guy, lol.