Talk:Macrophilia

Mind the language

“Recently, however, this fetish has been more widely accepted with others, with genre crossover among fetishists known as "furries".” — this line implies that all anthropomorphic fans are fetishists, which is by far not true. I recommend rephrasing this sentence (would do it myself but I don’t have enough inspiration today, sorry).

Other than this, I’ll go and fix all the capital letters. This isn’t XVIII Century English :P -- Ralesk 16:34, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Arright, I eventually went and rephrased a couple things. Take a look. Ta -- Ralesk 16:50, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Major changes planned.

As an FYI, I've plans to update and revamp this page into something more usable. Thanks to Ralesk for laying down the groundwork, but it needs to be more accessible to those who are not Macrophiles and involved in the online sizechange communities, and less bewildering or offputting to those who are. I also plan to make it more comprehensive and, well, encyclopedic. It's an important topic, as there are a surprising number of macrophiles out there, and it's a strange, poorly understood paraphilia in the wider world. Changes will go live probably on March 10th, 2005, and I'll copy over the original article to the Talk page, in case someone feels it's a better representation of the topic and wishes to revert part or all of it.

• Its the 14th and there isn't any major revamp, Has this 'plan' been called off or something?

The male giants

I really would like to see something about the macrophiles who appreciates male giants. It is becoming something more common, there are groups as http://groups.yahoo.com/group/growth_industry that has too many members. Please, I really think that is necessary someone writes about it. The groups about male giants are always growing. Is it something relationated with the fathers of these kind of macrophiles? I guess there are diferences between the macrophiles who apreciates male giants and the other kind of macrophiles. Is good to remember that the women and the gays generally prefer tall men.

--D.Lankow 02:51, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC) Well, I agree that someone should write about these gay groups, because this kind of macrophilia is growing. I myself own three english and one german macrophile group. It is a phenomenon, really. One group has more than 1400 members at least (since 2001). You know, I would do it myself, but my english is not that far, that I could write an analysis of the gay macrophilia, like this one we're discussing. But I will help to work on it, if someone will begin to write about these communities. --D.Lankow 02:51, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Giant lizards/creatures

I've seen a page claiming to be macrophilic that focused on giant fantasy creatures such as Godzilla. I don't know if there is a reptile-philia that would be related, besides the general "furry" category.

Giant lizards/creatures, Further elaboration

Note: I did not post the previous comment called "giant Lizards/creatures".

As a macrophiliac myself, and mainly a reptile-fond one, I must say it is not rare to find websites, communities, galleries, forums and others related to giant reptiles (and other creatures). In some cases it is not directly sexual-related, specially in persons who avoid to think in sexual topics, but still feel attracted to giant creatures; in this very moment I have two examples I remember: myself, when I was younger, and someone I met recently in a MUCK. In those cases --SPECIALLY when the macrophiliac avoids to relate his inclination with sexuality (or genitalia, in other cases)-- it is not gender specific; again I take myself and other ones I know as examples, our preference is not gender specific, and could also fantasy on completely genderless creatures (with absolute null involvement of genitals in a fantasy; or in other cases, without the involvement of the larger creature's ones). My apologies if my way to explain this sounds too rough, but I try to be direct. I think it is almost unavoidable to write on this topic and not be biased. If I wrote it, I could have been very biased towards the interest in larger creatures, without giving importance to gender, and not mentioning macrophilia towards humans (which I think, perhaps is the most common, who knows; I have not been in human-macrophile communities, ever).

I might write a long text about what I have observed on this matter during the last four years, hoping to be wikified and NPOVed by peers. I am a very observative and curious person, I'm constantly asking about what I'm interested in, and perhaps my point of view could help make this article more complete.

I'd deeply appreciate answers. I didn't want to directly edit the article as it has become more complete and encyclopedic-looking, so I prefer to put my thoughts on the discussion and see what can be done. In this last line I insist: I'm mainly a non-human macrophile (and was a completely non-human macrophile for most of my life but the last year), and I have been gathering information --by living it myself and observing others-- for years. I don't know much about the human-oriented dimension of macrophilia, except for the snapshot idea which website's portraits and group's introductions in yahoo can give. That's all. Take great care, and have a happy wikipedieing.

--Pentalis 05:05, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)