The ever-expanding list of potential sexual identities has just grown one identity more complex: “macrosexual,” or those attracted to giants.
“Macrophilia appears to be an increasingly popular sexual paraphilia in which individuals derive sexual arousal from a fascination with giants and/or a sexual fantasy involving giants,” explains Dr Mark Griffiths in his “Beginnner’s Guide to Macrophilia.”
Those who identify as macrosexuals don’t simply face a society that fails to understand or recognize the legitimacy of their sexual needs; they face discrimination by reality itself. That’s because many macrosexuals don’t desire simply a larger partner or people suffering from the actual physical condition of giantism—they want skyscraper-tall giants straight out of the Fantasy section of the used book store.
“Such fantasies may include the macrophiles themselves shrinking in front of a normal sized person (male or female),” Dr. Griffiths writes. ” Alternatively, macrophiles may fantasize about their sexual partner growing to an abnormal height while the macrophiles themselves remain unchanged.”
Griffiths underscores that macrophilia is different than those attracted to overweight people, as the sexual preference specifically refers to “individuals who are sexually attracted to people much taller than themselves” and usually by a scale “not generally found in real human life.” Almost all macrosexuals are males who find themselves attracted to “female giantesses.”
Since Tolkien-esque giants don’t actually exist, the only recourse for macrosexuals is virtual reality, which is currently being employed to help them fully realize their sexual urges. The increasing availability of these technologies has led to a “massive” increase in the number of men attracted to gaints, as Griffiths explains:
“The reason that this particular paraphilia has increased massively over the last decade is because the internet has played a crucial role in helping create and facilitate the paraphilia. Because the paraphilia is almost totally fantasy-based, much of the material from which macrophiles gain their sexual gratification is placed and distributed online. There is a wide range of macrophile artwork, photographs, and video on the internet. Applications such as Photoshop are widely used to create collages of fake giants. Photographs are also taken from low angles to make everything in the viewfinder (including people) seem much bigger. The internet is also full of home made camcorder films of people trampling and destroying model cities.”
Though the vast majority of macrosexuality is confined to the fantasy realm, Griffiths notes that some real-world “giant” sex does take place via “extraordinarily tall women,” popularly referred to as “Amazons”: “For instance, it was reported that Mikayla Miles (who when wearing her fetish boots nearly 7 feet in her fetish boots, and 6 feet 4 inches without the boots), provides private sessions with macrophiles to engage in behaviours such as trampling, domination, role play, and foot worship. Macrophiles can also meet their tall heroines at such gatherings as the annual Amazon Convention.”
Though some, like Dr. Griffiths might currently relegate giant-love to the philia/fetish category, with its growing popularity, it won’t be long now till it attains full-fledged sexuality status. That in mind, make sure your local institute of higher learning has added “macrosexual” to all its applications lest they discriminate against giant-lovers.
This article has been updated. H/T Independent.
