Welcome to Fatology 101

At the suggestion of my friend, Fatnesse, I have decided to initiate a formal blog reflecting my observations and comments from years of experience in the "Gaining Community."  Please also visit Fatnesse's blog.  He's done some terrific and insightful work in formulating such documents as a manual for gainers, and a manual for encouragers:

http://fatnesse.blogspot.com/2010/09/fatnesse-gainer-manual.html?zx=4e5783601fc81f4f

I have a history of being a University Professor of Psychology and a longer one as a FamilyTherapist, specializing in couples.  I've also done sex research on Inter-racial Same-Sex Couples and have taught courses in Cross-Cultural Sexuality.  My interest in the field of Psychology was based on trying to figure out why I found men gaining weight to be erotic for me at such an early age.  Frankly, that and the fact that even in childhood, others usually came to me to help solve their problems.  In my younger days, this led to my "secret stash" of images snipped out of magazines showing well-bellied men, or a male celebrity who had gotten chubby.  One day a friend of mine in San Francisco introduced me to the world of Gaining, on a formal level.  I knew he was a "chubby chaser" and his boyfriend was a short, round Bear.  Rick was on the phone and when he bent over, "flashed" a new role of flab.  I was "busted" as we say back home, i.e., he caught my gawk, and smiling, lifted up his shirt further and pinched his new pudge.  When he finished the call he told me he had been fat as a child and had always wanted to be a fat adult.  He felt he was now at the point of embracing this desire and had deliberately gained 15 pounds so far.  He then invited me to help him "person" the booth for the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance during a Convergence. 

 Convergences are regular gatherings of Girth and Mirth Clubs.  We joined a room full of vendors selling all sorts of items, including videos, clothing, and magazines.  He shared with me the self-published magazines that featured articles on gaining and often poorly reproduced photos men had sent in of their bellybuilding success.  This was the first time I was around so many men who had either intentionally gained weight or were comfortable being large and in charge.  This led to my joining "alt.net" groups on the Internet and eventually "meeting" a number of individuals who would eventually play a role in such sites as Gainrweb and Bellybuilders.  Over the years I became relatively active in posting on various sites.  When someone would ask, "Why am I like this?" I would try to answer using the information I had gleaned from my years of experience in "the field."  I came to the point that some questions were asked so frequently, it seemed as if it would be easier if I could simply link an earlier answer rather than having to re-write a response.  When the recent site, GrowingGuys opened, it had a "magazine" forum that I decided to try using as a location to repost "historical" pieces I had written.  A couple of years ago, my laptop was stolen, which meant I lost not only a great deal of unpublished (and published) professional/academic writings of mine, but also posts I had on various gainer related sites, not to mention many personal "favorite" saved images of fat guys.  When I mentioned this on GrowingGuys, imagine my utter delight when another member wrote back, letting me know he had saved several of the "answers" I had given that seemed to have importance to him.  XploDan was generous enough to e-mail me these "lost" items.  Then sadly, GrowingGuys announced the site was slated to "close" in late October of 2010.  I was back to where I had started, but with even more material I could use in a blog.

And so--thanks to the gentle  "poke" and prod from Fatnesse, I've set up this blog.  I intend to not only repost various items from other sites I've written, but also some of the "Storybook" style illustrated pieces I did for GetASnack a few years ago, and perhaps some of the Gainer fiction I wrote some time ago that has appeared on Beefyfrat, Gainrweb, and Fantasyfeeder.  In respect for the privacy of others, I will edit out the name of those who asked the questions, since I don't always have access to them in terms of obtaining permission to re-post what they had written on a "private," membership based site.

Just so, I have collected many images of well-bellied men over the years, that I have shared on various sites.  If I post any of these that the photographer or subject objects to appearing here, please contact me and I will immediately take them down.

I will be more than happy to try to answer any questions readers might have and post.  My experience and training certainly doesn't mean I actually HAVE the right answer, but over the years I've gotten much better at formulating the sort of questions that might be asked about "fatology."  For legal and ethical reasons, let me formally state that my responses are intended to be "educational" in nature, rather than intended as therapy.  I am certainly willing to offer advice or an opinion.

 In reading through the content terms of service on the hosting site, I was somewhat disappointed to see that I might risk censorship regarding an answer I gave to a question on zoophillia (defining it from a historical and psychological perspective...as I wrote at the time, the fact I can discuss this doesn't mean I'm directly involved, any more than the wonderful Granny, Sue Johanson, personally tested every sex toy she used to show on her Canadian program, "Talk Sex").  I had a particular interest because at the time, there was a legislative move in my home state to outlaw bestiality, after a state citizen who had been "using" a horse, died of damage and infection of his rectum.  Their concern was realizing there were no "appropriate" charges to be brought against the group that had coordinated his involvement with the stallion.  It was the sort of thing where lawmakers hadn't thought to outlaw bestiality, rather in the way Queen Victoria didn't believe in lesbians, because "Women wouldn't do that sort of thing,"  Or the way they had never passed laws against gang-banging Sasquatches, or against Aliens conducting anal probes.  The men involved were charged with "trespassing" on the horse farm.  So--based on the terms of services of Google--please--no questions on bestiality.  Any other questions?











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