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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[who?] have specially made inflatable suits, to make themselves bigger all over. 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.[citation needed]
Examples
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Some inflation fantasies are inspired by non-sexual gags from popular culture. One such example is from the Roald Dahl novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and its film adaptations, wherein Violet Beauregarde is transfigured into an immobile blueberry-like entity after eating an experimental chewing gum. This scene inspired "blueberry porn", involving skin turning blue and bodies swelling with blueberry juice, with bodily fluids also turning blue and leaking out of erogenous zones.[1][2]
Another example is Mr. Blowup,[3] who appears in the Deviant Desires book.[4] He wears air-inflated double-skinned latex suits, and has made a number of TV appearances in the UK, including Eurotrash.[5]
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.[6]
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.[6]
Health risks
[edit]Medical case studies have documented patients' attempts to physically inflate the human body itself via injection of gases or liquids, resulting in injury in multiple cases. Instances of subcutaneous emphysema have been documented in patients engaging in autoerotic penis inflation.[7] In another incident, a 42-year-old male's bladder ruptured after he injected pressurized water into his urethra and carbon dioxide under his skin, requiring surgery and hyperbaric oxygen therapy to repair the damage.[8] Injecting air into the body can cause death, as in the case of a 38-year-old man who suffered a fatal air embolism after injecting air into his penis.[9] In multiple cases, patients have suffered severe injury or death as a result of gastrointestinal perforations caused by injecting highly-pressurized air into the anus.[10][11]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "Blueberry Porn?! Yup, It's a Thing". Kinkly.com. 17 October 2019. Retrieved 2024-02-17.
- ↑ Samantha, Cole (7 February 2019). "The Juicy, Round World of Blueberry Porn". Motherboard. Vice. New York City, NY, USA: Vice Media. ISSN 1077-6788. OCLC 3085625. Archived from the original on 7 November 2020. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
- ↑ Cobbett, Bill (April 1997). "The story of Mr. Blowup" (PDF). Secret Magazine. No. 12. pp. 86–87. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 February 2009. Retrieved 1 February 2010.
- ↑ Gates, Katharine (1999). Deviant Desires: Incredibly Strange Sex. Juno Books. pp. 95–103. ISBN 1-890451-03-7.
- ↑ Written at London, England. "More proof that the Net's a weird place". The Globe and Mail. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Reuters. 27 April 2000. pp. R7. ISSN 0319-0714. Archived from the original on 18 May 2023. Retrieved 1 February 2010.
- 1 2 Allerhand, Rhalou (2008). "Blown Away". Forum (UK). Vol. 42, no. 12. Trojan Publishing. pp. 54–61. Archived from the original on 18 December 2010. Retrieved 18 February 2011.
- ↑ Ural, Y.; Muthen, N.; Engelmann, U.; Wille, S. (2013-09-25). "Generalized Subcutaneous Emphysema Caused by Injection of Air into the Penis for Autoerotic Purposes". Case Reports in Nephrology and Urology. 3 (2): 117–120. doi:10.1159/000355514. ISSN 1664-5510. PMC 3806669. PMID 24163687.
- ↑ Yanagida, Kazuki; Watanabe, Daisuke; Ono, Tenei; Ujiie, Takashi; Kaneko, Tomoyuki; Miura, Kunihisa; Ishihara, Tohru; Nakagawa, Tohru (November 2025). "A Case of Intraperitoneal Bladder Rupture and Widespread Subcutaneous Emphysema Due to Self-Injurious Behavior in Paraphilia: Potential Roles of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy as an Adjunctive Treatment". JU Open Plus. 3 (11). doi:10.1097/JU9.0000000000000384. ISSN 2771-554X.
- ↑ Modelli, Manoel E. S.; Rodrigues, Maciel S.; Castro, Bruno Z. M.; Corrêa, Rodrigo S. (January 2013). "Self‐Induced Fatal Air Embolism: Accidental Autoerotic Death or Suicide?". Journal of Forensic Sciences. 58 (s1). doi:10.1111/j.1556-4029.2012.02302.x. ISSN 0022-1198.
- ↑ Hejna, Petr; Zátopková, Lenka; Janík, Martin (January 2021). "Rectal explosion: a strange case of autoerotic death". International Journal of Legal Medicine. 135 (1): 307–312. doi:10.1007/s00414-020-02344-7. ISSN 0937-9827.
- ↑ M, Pugazharasan; Reddy, Aluru Jayakrishna; S, Manikandan R.; M, Arul (2021-12-20). "Catastrophic Colorectal Injuries Due to Misuse of Compressed Air: A Case Report and Review". Journal of Angiotherapy. 5 (2). Eman Research Publishing LLC, USA: 1–5. doi:10.25163/angiotherapy.52621552920201221.
