Welcome to other people's lives, a podcast where each week we speak with an

anonymous stranger that we found on the internet who we think is interesting.

I'm your host, Joe Sanagato. And I'm your other host, Greg Dybeck. And today we're

going to be speaking with someone who sent us an email. And this person is in

the gaining community, which I had never heard of. Well, if you remember on a

previous episode, we, someone mentioned feeders. Right. And we promised everyone

that we would talk to a feeder. So the gaining community, I'll read this

guy's email, it says, I'm part of a community of guys who are into gaining

weight or helping other guys gain weight, typically beyond what is considered

normal. And he goes on to say that he's happier after putting on weight and

connecting with the gainer slash encourager slash feeder community. So for

anyone who doesn't know, feederism, as it's called, is a fetish for eating and

gaining weight. So the way we understood it was, there's, it's sexual, I guess

it's a fetish and one person because that email doesn't sound sexual, but like

I always thought it was a sexual thing. I thought so too. I think it probably

varies within the community. Right. But it usually involves one person feeding

another. And I found a quote from a feeder that says, when I was a kid, I would

stuff my clothes with pillows and pretend to be super fat. I also loved playing

in the mud and being messy with food. It gave me a thrill even before I knew it

was sexual. So I don't know if there's sex acts involved. They just like the

big dudes or is, are they sexually aroused by the idea of eating and gaining weight?

Yeah. I mean, we have no idea. We don't. But that's why we call people. So let's

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