I’m curious this afternoon about the history of giantess sex fantasies and macrophilia in general, so I went a-googling and found this article from 1999 at Salon.com.
So where do guys get the jones for jumbo women? For Dave, sexual awakening dates back to Liliput. Dave says, “I was turned on by “Gulliver’s Travels” before I knew what the birds and the bees were all about.” In the book there’s a scene in the land of Brobdingnag where Gulliver gets intimate with one of the local giantesses — the enticingly named Glumdaclitch. Dave read that scene for the first time in the sixth grade and says, “I’ve fantasized about giantesses ever since.” Would Jonathan Swift flip his periwig if he knew that his witty satire of English society was now serving as the stuff of wet dreams for a slew of GTS-lovin’ horndogs?
Another paragraph reads:
“They’re playing out some old, unresolved psychological issue,” says Dr. Helen Friedman, a clinical psychologist in St. Louis. “Maybe as a child they felt overwhelmed by a dominant mother, or a sadistic mother. Maybe they were abused. This [macrophilia] is not so much a fetish as a disassociation from reality. It’s part of an internal world.” The macro’s submersion in fantasy, she says, serves as a substitute for a more normalized approach to sex. “Healthy sexuality is about personal intimacy,” Friedman says. “It’s about feeling good about yourself in a way that expresses caring, and feeling a connection to another person.”
I suppose that’s true in some sense, but isn’t all physical attraction a submersion in a fantasy? Big boobs, big muscles, short guys, big dicks, skinny girls, whatever – aren’t we all dancing to a weird tune in our head?
I don’t believe having fetish should be deemed unhealthy. I think acknowledging and exploring ones sexuality is incredibly healthy behavior. Macrophia is only a fantasy because 20ft tall women don’t exist. I would like to think that if they did exist, it would still be about “feeling good about yourself in a way that expresses caring, and feeling a connection to another person.”
I know that most fetishes manifest from some event in adolescence. For example, woman that like really rough sex generally had rough (not necessarily abusive) older brothers growing up, and playing rough is just how they express love. For people that like macrophilia, it seems like we were all fascinated by something in our youth. For this guy Dave, it was “Gulliver’s Travels.” Personally, I watched “Alice in Wonderland” on VHS until the magnetic tape began to wear. Which might also explain why I am more interested in the growth process than an actual giant woman. I would also like to note that my mother was neither dominate nor sadistic.
Giantessa, does my theory hold true for you as well? What, if any, macrophile or giantess themed media did you enjoy in your youth?
Also, kudos on finding this article! I would love to hear what more published sources think about this little world. This, and the one on i09 are the only two I have seen so far…
Dr. Helen Friedman sounds like one of those professional types who would come up with a clinical diagnosis for breathing.
@Nick – Well, I don’t really get a whole lot out of the mega-giantess fantasies. I think my leanings are the result of being so tall my whole life. I like being a lot taller than most people and I fantasize about being taller than, well, everybody.