# Sexual attraction to midgets and the morbidly obese... **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [January 20, 2001, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexual-attraction-to-midgets-and-the-morbidly-obese/51055 "2001-01-20T21:00:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexual-attraction-to-midgets-and-the-morbidly-obese/51055/21 "2011-10-05T17:05:43Z")
> [@RailroadShorty](#): > > 1. Finally, are there “average” women who express a sexual preference for morbidly obese men or little people? I have no doubt that there are. However, most pornography caters to men. Porn made for women is a tiny share of the market. Now, consider that likely only a tiny tiny percentage of women have a kink for morbidly obese men or little people. What we now have is a group so small it apparently doesn’t pay to make porn catering to them. It may seem like there are many sites for men into obese women or dwarves. But these sites are a vanishingly small percentage of the total number of porn sites. ---
**Author:** ![LaurenIpsum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@LaurenIpsum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LaurenIpsum)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexual-attraction-to-midgets-and-the-morbidly-obese/51055/22 "2011-10-05T17:14:15Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > What’s “morbidly obese”? And what percentage of the population fits that criterion now? Probably a lot more than when this thread was started 10 years ago. Probably a lot more zombies too. ---
**Author:** ![Rune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@Rune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rune)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexual-attraction-to-midgets-and-the-morbidly-obese/51055/23 "2011-10-05T17:15:48Z")
I don’t think of it as a fetish. I consider a fetish to be sexual obsession with an object separated from a human being. A fat or midget chick is still a whole human. Some years ago I zapped past an English program about an English guy who were into super-fat American girls, and the girls thought he was really great and cute. So at least those were happy with him. His problem was that they kept dying on him because they were so fat. Aren’t men generally more likely to have extreme sexual preferences and fetishes than girls? Oh, I didn’t know it was an old thread. There’re also some men that are into zombie chicks btw. Zombie chicks are probably not ideal partners for a stable, healthy and long-term relationship based on mutual trust and love. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexual-attraction-to-midgets-and-the-morbidly-obese/51055/24 "2011-10-05T17:59:14Z")
> [@RailroadShorty](#): > > 1. Are these men who are consistently attracted to little people or the morbidly obese fetishists, or merely men who are expressing a preference as for brown hair vs. blonde? If the former, what makes their interest different from that of the latter? It’s not a fetish. More like a paraphilia, but not sure if either of those is a named paraphilia. And I don’t think it’s that different from normal attraction (except the feeder thing, that crosses some line, I think) > [@](#): > > 1. Are the women who fall into the above categories happy to have the attentions of these men, considering that their dating landscape is probably fraught with more challenges than most? I can only speak about one guy I know who had a thing for little ladies - he got a lot of success, but it was because he didn’t make their size the be-all end-all of his relationships. Sure, he had a “thing”, but he also cared about them as people - he’d reject a bitch even if she was short, I’d seen him do it. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexual-attraction-to-midgets-and-the-morbidly-obese/51055/25 "2011-10-05T18:06:27Z")
Need answer fast! ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexual-attraction-to-midgets-and-the-morbidly-obese/51055/26 "2011-10-05T18:06:33Z")
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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexual-attraction-to-midgets-and-the-morbidly-obese/51055/27 "2011-10-05T18:14:04Z")
Welcome to the board, **wahine75**. If you want to discuss your relationship, you’re welcome to do so - although a thread in the Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share (MPSIMS) forum would work better. Since this thread is 10 years old and many of the participants don’t post here anymore, I’m closing this. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexual-attraction-to-midgets-and-the-morbidly-obese/51055.md?page=1)