Look on the bright side.
In addition to being attracted to the larger gentlemen, I've always been fascinated with what it must feel like to be so much larger than anyone else. In my younger years, I often asked friends and even casual acquaintances what it felt like to be 300+ pounds. The answer I got was always the same, and always disappointing: either I'd get a bewildered shrug, or he'd say, "it's a pain to buy clothes."
This was always dissatisfying for me; I wanted to hear how it felt to be a big, lumbering, behemoth! Eventually I stopped asking altogether when it became clear some guys even found the question itself off-putting. It took me many years to finally figure out why I never got a satisfactory response. The reason was these guys had no point of reference; most of them had been big all their lives, "big" being their "normal". It would be like a midget asking me what it felt like to be tall, or an Asian asking me what it was like to have freckles; I'd have nothing to say to either of those questions. The only point of reference where a big guy's "normal" becomes "abnormal" is when they go clothes shopping; "normal" sized clothes wont fit them, hence the reply, "it's a pain to buy clothes".
Even going to guys that have lost alot of weight doesn't help. For them the common reply is, "I still feel big, I just can bend/run more now". I haven't talked to many gainers (itself a fascinating subset of chub culture), but the ones I have spoken to usually can only describe how much they enjoy the way they look. One suspects that the change from "normal" to large being so gradual that the human memory is too fallible to create an accurate recording of feeling "thin" vs "fat".
Barring some pretty extreme advances in medical science, I doubt I'll ever get a satisfactory answer to this question. Which is a shame, since alot of big guys I know have just awful self image issues (even my roaring and eager erection applied liberally both internally and externally being insufficient to sway opinion most of the time). One of the things I'd hope to do with this knowledge would be to find the positive aspects of being large. There must be SOME silver-lining to what many overweight individuals consider to be a very dark cloud, but finding it without any data to draw from is difficult.
However, here's a few things I think MUST be a benefit to being a fat-guy:
-Drought/Famine resistance
-Lower centre of gravity, harder to tip over
-Natural padding allows absorption of impact from external threats (or non-threats in the cases of hugging and cuddling)
-Some medical studies suggest being overweight/obese is actually a BENEFIT to longevity (the theory being, if you don't die of a heart attack first, you survive the wasting effects of old-age better)
-The ability to store small objects in folds of flesh (similarly to women storing cell phones under their boobs)
-You look younger (it's true! A little sub-cutaneous fat means that those cherub cheeks tend to be wrinkle resistant!)
-It's fun to play with when you're bored (I see fat guys play with their bellies all the time when they think nobody is looking)
-For those that can get over their shy-ness, wearing tight, sexy clothes is all the more appealing on a guy with curves
-Never needing to sit in the back when piling into a car (big guys get the front seat, always)
I hope this list will, if not convince a large lad that being fat is good, will at least convince them it's not all bad. Until then, I'll keep hoping my screaming erection will change a few minds here and there.
This was always dissatisfying for me; I wanted to hear how it felt to be a big, lumbering, behemoth! Eventually I stopped asking altogether when it became clear some guys even found the question itself off-putting. It took me many years to finally figure out why I never got a satisfactory response. The reason was these guys had no point of reference; most of them had been big all their lives, "big" being their "normal". It would be like a midget asking me what it felt like to be tall, or an Asian asking me what it was like to have freckles; I'd have nothing to say to either of those questions. The only point of reference where a big guy's "normal" becomes "abnormal" is when they go clothes shopping; "normal" sized clothes wont fit them, hence the reply, "it's a pain to buy clothes".
Even going to guys that have lost alot of weight doesn't help. For them the common reply is, "I still feel big, I just can bend/run more now". I haven't talked to many gainers (itself a fascinating subset of chub culture), but the ones I have spoken to usually can only describe how much they enjoy the way they look. One suspects that the change from "normal" to large being so gradual that the human memory is too fallible to create an accurate recording of feeling "thin" vs "fat".
Barring some pretty extreme advances in medical science, I doubt I'll ever get a satisfactory answer to this question. Which is a shame, since alot of big guys I know have just awful self image issues (even my roaring and eager erection applied liberally both internally and externally being insufficient to sway opinion most of the time). One of the things I'd hope to do with this knowledge would be to find the positive aspects of being large. There must be SOME silver-lining to what many overweight individuals consider to be a very dark cloud, but finding it without any data to draw from is difficult.
However, here's a few things I think MUST be a benefit to being a fat-guy:
-Drought/Famine resistance
-Lower centre of gravity, harder to tip over
-Natural padding allows absorption of impact from external threats (or non-threats in the cases of hugging and cuddling)
-Some medical studies suggest being overweight/obese is actually a BENEFIT to longevity (the theory being, if you don't die of a heart attack first, you survive the wasting effects of old-age better)
-The ability to store small objects in folds of flesh (similarly to women storing cell phones under their boobs)
-You look younger (it's true! A little sub-cutaneous fat means that those cherub cheeks tend to be wrinkle resistant!)
-It's fun to play with when you're bored (I see fat guys play with their bellies all the time when they think nobody is looking)
-For those that can get over their shy-ness, wearing tight, sexy clothes is all the more appealing on a guy with curves
-Never needing to sit in the back when piling into a car (big guys get the front seat, always)
I hope this list will, if not convince a large lad that being fat is good, will at least convince them it's not all bad. Until then, I'll keep hoping my screaming erection will change a few minds here and there.