Body inflation
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Body inflation or inflation fetish is the practice of inflating or pretending to inflate a part of one's body, often for sexual gratification. It is commonly done by inserting items such as balloons, bouncy balls, or beach balls underneath clothes or a skin-tight suit and then inflating them. Some people have specially made inflatable suits, to make themselves bigger all over. One of the best-known examples is Mr. Blowup,{{Cite magazine |last=Cobbett |first=Bill |date=April 1997 |title=The story of Mr. Blowup |url=http://www.secretmag.com/PDF/Best12.PDF |url-status=dead |magazine=Secret Magazine |language=en |issue=12 |pages=86–87 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090205090743/http://secretmag.com/PDF/Best12.PDF |archive-date=5 February 2009 |access-date=1 February 2010}} who appears in the Deviant Desires book.{{Cite book |last=Gates |first=Katharine |title=Deviant Desires: Incredibly Strange Sex |publisher=Juno Books |year=1999 |isbn=1-890451-03-7 |pages=95–103 |language=en}} He wears air-inflated double-skinned latex suits, and has made a number of TV appearances in the UK, including Eurotrash.{{Cite news |last= |first= |date=27 April 2000 |title=More proof that the Net's a weird place |language=en |pages=R7 |work=The Globe and Mail |agency=Reuters |location=London, England |publication-place=Toronto, Ontario, Canada |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/more-proof-that-the-nets-a-weird-place/article4163135/ |url-status=live |access-date=1 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230518001825/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/more-proof-that-the-nets-a-weird-place/article4163135/ |archive-date=18 May 2023 |issn=0319-0714}} Sometimes the body is actually inflated also, such as by enema or drinking large amounts of liquid. The entire concept of body inflation is heavily associated with the feeling of being bound to one spot, or usually due to a combination of a stomach fetish with many other fetish elements.
Examples
Prior to becoming a fetish, the idea of one's body inflating like a balloon has been a humorous gag for many decades. One of the most famous examples of body inflation in popular culture is of Violet Beauregarde from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory/Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, where she is transfigured into an immobile blueberry-like entity after eating an experimental chewing gum consisting of a three-course meal which is tomato soup, roast beef with baked potato and blueberry pie with ice cream. This scene inspired "blueberry porn", that involves their skin turning blue and bodies swelling by filling up with blueberry juice, which also affects their bodily fluids that turn blue and leak out of their erogenous zones, like their breasts, navels and sex organs.{{Cite web |title=Blueberry Porn?! Yup, It's a Thing. |url=https://www.kinkly.com/blueberry-porn-yup-its-a-thing/2/18388 |access-date=2024-02-17 |website=Kinkly.com |date=17 October 2019 |language=en}}{{Cite magazine |last=Samantha |first=Cole |date=7 February 2019 |title=The Juicy, Round World of Blueberry Porn |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-juicy-round-world-of-blueberry-porn/ |url-status=live |department=Motherboard |magazine=Vice |language=en |publisher=Vice Media |publication-place=New York City, NY, USA |issn=1077-6788 |oclc=3085625 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201107232504/https://www.vice.com/en/article/wjmjqw/the-juicy-round-world-of-blueberry-porn |archive-date=7 November 2020 |access-date=16 September 2019}}
Other inflatable fetishists generate erotic stories, artwork, video, and audio files to indulge their fantasies. Sexual roleplay is also fairly common, either in person or via online conversation. The notion of the fantasy scenarios ending in popping or explosion is often a divisive topic in the community.{{Cite magazine |last=Allerhand |first=Rhalou |year=2008 |title=Blown Away |url=http://airytales.net/galleries/other-stuff/ |url-status=dead |magazine=Forum (UK) |language=en |publisher=Trojan Publishing |volume=42 |issue=12 |pages=54–61 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101218184635/http://airytales.net/galleries/other-stuff/ |archive-date=18 December 2010 |access-date=18 February 2011}}
The first inflatable fetish community organized online in 1994, in the form of an e-mail list; as the popularity of online communication grew, so did the online community.
Bodily inflation may lead to physical pain and even damage body parts like the intestines or stomach.{{Citation needed|date=May 2025}}{{Original research inline|date=May 2025}}
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