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@foreverlurk I did this through texting. I think it would be harder for me to do it in person without coming across as weird, haha. I’m a stereotypical introvert, and I’m better at writing than I am at speaking…I play to my strengths. I think the trick is to really lean into the playful and whimsical side of the fantasy. You make it intentionally silly and over the top (but also maintaining the sweet and romantic part of it). Women in general LOVE to feel protected and taken care of, and this scenario is a good way to create those feelings. (They don’t care if it’s only a silly fantasy…that’s why they read romance novels…the fantasy may not be real, but the emotions are).

They also LOVE confidence in a man…so what you say doesn’t matter nearly as much as how you say it. If you say something confidently, as long as they find you attractive, they’ll accept almost anything. (If they don’t find you attractive, you’re very unlikely to change that by saying the right things to them, so it’s usually best to move on to someone else who DOES find you attractive.) If you’re willing to say things to a woman that are a bit risky (if you’re willing to risk sounding silly or slightly weird), that actually communicates confidence, which is attractive. It means you’re not putting her on a pedestal and aren’t totally freaked out by the possibility of scaring her off. Also attractive.

@littlest-lily Fortunately, there are very few of “us” out there, so the risk of intimidating her into embarrassed silence through sizey flirting is negligible!

@Olo said in Seasonal Reminder:

Tinies who live in gingerbread houses taste like molasses.

Also, when MULTIPLE tiny women live in the same gingerbread house, they taste like mo’ lasses. See what I did there?

@Olo “Satisfactory” sounds like the most passive-aggressive adjective ever. I love it!

[pats tiny women on the head condescendingly] That’ll do, pig. That’ll do.

@foreverlurk Hehe, it IS a skill that can be learned, but there’s also a fair amount of luck involved. The girl who was having tiny dreams was just one particular girl, and the chances of that exact scenario happening again are infinitesimal. Women are like a box of chocolates…you never know what you’re going to get. I don’t always get positive responses to the sizey stuff…I’ve had neutral responses too. But I’ve never had any negative responses, and the response is usually positive. Sometimes VERY positive.

@SmolChlo I’m not exactly “up front” with it, because I never tell anybody that it’s a kink for me, and I never talk about it with anyone except potential girlfriends. But then again, my interest in tiny women is both sexual and non-sexual, so it’s not STRICTLY a kink. The lines are kind of blurry. I can’t imagine what it would be like to be TRULY up front about it, with everyone! I don’t think I’m likely to ever go that route, but I salute you! Haha.

Yes, I do think unaware stuff can be enjoyable, but if it never reaches a point where the tiny is noticed, then it’s kind of like a long extended setup without a payoff. Ideally, “temporarily unaware” scenarios can be a good way to add some variety and to get the best of both worlds (i.e. you get the benefits of giant interaction AND the benefits of the tiny being unnoticed).

Unaware content is a bit like micro content. I enjoy REALLY small sizes–a lot!–but I also recognize that they tend to limit the interaction that’s possible between a giant and a tiny, so it’s usually best if the tiny is micro-sized only temporarily and for a relatively short time. Ideally, just like with unaware stuff, micro sizes can be a good way to add some variety and to get the best of both worlds (you get the benefits of ant-sized tinies AND the benefits of finger-sized tinies).

@blehb I’d say that when men openly talk about their sexual appetites with anyone other than their romantic partners (especially if their sexual appetites are unusual), it’s more likely to be viewed as predatory, perverted, and weird…or even “rapey” and misogynistic. When women do it, it’s generally viewed as something innocent and harmless. That’s one of the reasons why I would be extremely hesitant to tell normies that the fantasy has a sexual component for me.

Also, in normie fiction about shrinking, there’s an unwritten rule: people who shrink themselves are good guys. People who shrink others are villains. If I’m a man who enjoys shrinking women, that would automatically make me the villain, according to this rule.

About giantesses:

I think there are two big reasons for the stigma about F/m content:

1. There’s a lot of toxic behavior in the F/m community (as other people have mentioned), and this stuff is usually the very FIRST thing people see when they discover size content, because it’s everywhere.

2. One of the major differences between men and women is that women can’t feel sexually attracted to a man who they don’t respect. When a woman loses respect for her man, the romantic relationship typically dies. She will either leave him, or she’ll continue to live with him, but she’ll treat him as a roommate rather than a romantic partner. This is one reason why so many women chase after dominant bad boys and ignore submissive nice guys. It’s hard to respect a submissive man…a man who puts himself in an “inferior” position. This makes a lot of sense when you consider that women looked to men for protection and provision for thousands of years, and the men who are most respected by women also tend to be the best protectors and providers. We humans still have the same brains that we had thousands of years ago, and women are still fundamentally attracted to the same things that they were attracted to thousands of years ago. A hundred years’ worth of rapid social change in the Western world isn’t going to simply erase all of that.

So the reason why people may be more weirded out by F/m content is that it feels unnatural. It reverses the roles, and it goes against what humans have expected from men throughout the entirety of human history.

I like feminine, flowy stuff like dresses and skirts, or makeshift clothing (the fact that makeshift clothing often resembles a dress anyway doesn’t hurt). Makeshift clothing can add to the cuteness factor, and it also emphasizes the fact that the tiny is living in an alien world that’s not made for her.

Some people say tinies should wear “practical” clothing, like combat boots and cargo pants, because life as a tiny can be demanding. Personally, the more practical and utilitarian the clothing is, the less interesting it is to me. Tiny women are better when they don’t look like Navy SEALs.

I’m not really a fan of doll clothes (unless they look exactly like regular clothes)…only because the more the tiny resembles a toy that a child would play with, the more it reminds me of “kiddie content.” If I’m envisioning a romantic or sexual scenario involving a tiny woman, I don’t want to be thinking about ANYTHING child-related or child-adjacent…for obvious reasons. That just feels uncomfortable.

@littlest-lily @foreverlurk I concur with Foreverlurk’s preferences, and I’m also a straight man! I suspect that it’s more common for straight men to have these preferences than you would think, although I really can’t prove that.

When sizey content is nothing but spicy scenes and purely physical stuff, that gets boring to me pretty quickly. I suspect that most of us are into size content because it does something for us emotionally (not JUST sexually or visually), so I think the emotional side probably plays a bigger role in this fantasy than it does in typical “vanilla” NSFW scenarios aimed at straight men. If a man just wants pure spicy content, all the time, there are a million different places he can get that from. If a man is a member of THIS forum, on the other hand, it probably means he’s looking for something he can’t find just anywhere. That’s my theory…but who knows, maybe I’m just projecting my OWN state of mind onto other men in order to make myself seem less freakish! [shrug] It’s possible…

@SmolChlo said in Just chillin:

I’ve also wondered why men seem to get squirrelly when you go for their butt or feet

I think the general consensus in the culture/media/etc. is that these particular male body parts are repulsive…especially feet. Foot fetishism in general tends to be frowned upon, but it seems like appreciating women’s feet aesthetically is more accepted and is considered more “normal” than appreciating men’s feet (and I think the same is true for female butts versus male butts…appreciating female butts is more accepted). It’s fairly common to see women posing barefoot in glamor photos, sexy photos, artistic photos, the list goes on. Men? Not so much. Women wear stiletto heels when they get all dressed up…men wear closed shoes. Women’s feet are on display more often, and they’re more carefully maintained and made to look pretty. (As for butts, I’ve noticed that when women’s butts are shown in movies, it’s usually portrayed as sexy. When men’s butts are shown, it’s portrayed as funny, gross, or sad.) When there are a lot of cultural messages implying that men’s feet are undesirable and should be hidden away (or simply not focused on), I think some men probably internalize those messages, which would make them more uncomfortable with receiving the kind of attention that you described.

I also feel like the whole foot thing may have acquired some “feminine” connotations. For instance, going barefoot can have the effect of making someone look more vulnerable, and vulnerability is considered feminine. Also, women seem to go barefoot or show their feet more often than men do, and that may contribute even further to the associations with femininity. When you see couples together, a lot of women put their bare feet in their boyfriend’s lap, a lot of men rub their girlfriends’ feet, and so on, but how often do you see those things happen the other way around–with the genders reversed? It seems pretty rare. So if a man has been internalizing these norms for his entire life, I can understand how he might instinctively feel like it’s “feminine” for him to have someone paying special attention to his feet in that way (in other words, treating him as if he were a woman).

That said, I’m a guy who appreciates female feet and hates male feet (including my own), so I’m not representative of all straight men. I might be right on target with my theorizing…OR I might be HORRENDOUSLY guilty of projecting my own biases, quirks, and hang-ups onto other men. Either ignore my theories or don’t. Haha.

@SmolChlo I would respond to that, but I think “no response” from the giant would be more terrifying and humiliating. You are just a bug, after all.

@skysayl As a nice bonus, the US is bigger than most countries, so you’ll feel smaller. (Okay, I’m pretty sure that’s not how it works…)

@Kisupure The thing about cats is that you can declaw them. You want to “declaw” your tiny to the best of your ability. That’s why I always keep her barefoot, so she can’t kick me with her pointy-toed heels, use her stilettos as if they were LITERAL stilettos, etc.

@littlest-lily I get the feeling that she’s more extroverted and he’s more introverted. She appreciates puns and he doesn’t. That makes her his (wait for it)…
…extroversion olive foil!

Answered.

@coolguy69 Yes, I do relate. I’m a straight guy, and everyone expects straight guys to be extremely into nudity and sexual content. But I’m “weird.” I’m generally not a fan of NSFW size content, although there are exceptions to that rule. When I DO enjoy the NSFW stuff, it’s not for the reasons you would expect…I usually enjoy the non-NSFW elements of it. And I’m also not into nudity…I prefer tinies to be clothed. (Although it can be great when a woman shrinks out of her clothes and has to wear makeshift clothes…depending on what the makeshift clothes are!) Strangely, I don’t consider myself to be asexual at all…I feel like my preferences would be less weird if I WERE asexual! At least then it would be “expected.”

And yeah, I don’t like cruel stuff at all (although lighthearted teasing and being “fake mean” to the tiny can be fun). There are a number of things in size content that are turnoffs for me, like tiny men, furry stuff, bodily functions, etc., and cruelty or sadism is definitely one of my turnoffs. The idea of being on either the giving end or the receiving end of ACTUAL mistreatment or meanness or anything truly degrading–either in fantasy or in real life–just makes me feel disgusted.

So I guess we’ll say my tastes are very “soft.” If super-violent, rapey size content is hard liquor, then I’m the one drinking a virgin strawberry daiquiri. (Interestingly, I don’t drink alcohol at all in real life, and I never have. I wonder if there’s some sort of relationship between my habits and preferences in one area of life and my proclivities in other areas. There probably is…at least a tiny bit.)