Talk:Body inflation

Mr Blowup
Unless Mr Blowup inflates his own body, I think he should be mentioned (if anywhere) at Total enclosure fetishism. Kenilworth Terrace (talk) 19:30, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Human versus animal
There's probably another article to be written about body inflation in animals. I suggest this article might usefully be moved to Human body inflation to make way for this article to be about animals in general. Kenilworth Terrace (talk) 16:53, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Origins section
I'm not happy with the Origins section because i can't see how it could claim to have branched off from pregnancy fetishism. That may be true in an evolutionary sense but for individuals, we just have this fetish and our own history with it. Regarding Violet Beauregarde, to me that was a discovery of a depiction of a fetish i already had. I also think the assessment of the two well-known cinematic versions is highly subjective.

On a side issue, i think the behaviour of users towards this article and its predecessor reveals a flaw in Wikipedia. It reminds me of someone who has witnessed a remarkable event and then has difficulty convincing anyone else it's factual, and i've met with scepticism on this issue elsewhere. This is not really to do with inflation fetishism so much as this: i know it exists, i practice it and i've met with scepticism, and this makes me suspect that there are a whole load of other things, not sexual, just generally, which are in the Fortean sense "damned" and destined never to appear in Wikipedia or anything like a peer-reviewed journal because of entrenched scepticism masquerading as rationalism. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nineteenthly (talk • contribs) 08:43, 16 March 2011 (UTC)