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Size & Scale
A map of the kinks organised around scale: attraction to the very large or the very small, fantasies of growing or shrinking, and the everyday version where a simple height or build difference carries the charge. Most of these live in fiction and art rather than practice, which is part of what makes them coherent as a family.
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About this collection
Difference in size is the subject of this collection, and the eleven entries are organised by how far the difference goes: from a partner who is taller or broader to a being the height of a building, from a body that grows to one that shrinks to nothing, and to the fantasy of being swallowed whole. Most of it lives in fiction and art. That is what makes the family coherent.
Size difference kink, the everyday version, leads at rank 97 and an estimated 5 percent of adults; it is the only common entry, and the one a reader is likely to have without knowing there was a word. Below it the collection is imagination: macrophilia, the giant, at 1 percent, and a tail of growth, expansion and shrinking fantasies down to body inflation at 0.15 percent.
What the collection gathers
Four kinds of scale: the partner's, the giant's, the changing body's, and the body that consumes. The partner's is size difference and lift and carry, the pleasure in being lifted or in lifting, filed under Acts because it is done. The giant's is macrophilia and the giantess fetish, which the catalog files twice because the clinical word and the community word are searched for separately, and shrinking fetish, clinically microphilia, the counterpart from the small end.
The changing body is the growth strand: weight gain fetish, breast expansion, muscle growth and body inflation, each an interest in the process of a body enlarging, and each expressed almost entirely in drawn art. Vore, the fantasy of swallowing or being swallowed whole, is the extreme of the scale difference. The FAQ below asks whether it belongs here at all. Morphophilia, at the foot, is the clinical umbrella for arousal organised around overall body shape rather than a single part, and it is the term the others sit under in the sexological literature.
Where its edges are
The FAQ below asks whether people act any of this out, and for most of the collection the answer is no: a giantess or a body inflating to cartoon proportions cannot be enacted, and the entries describe the art, the fiction and the communities that make them. Size difference and lift and carry are the exceptions, practised between partners, and weight gain has a practised form the entry describes with its risks.
The growth entries also appear in Fantasy, fiction and fandom, where the drawn art is filed with the rest of the drawn art; here they are grouped by what changes rather than where it is drawn. The catalog keeps both views because a reader arriving from a comic and a reader arriving from a partner who is a foot taller are asking different questions about the same family.
How the ranking reads
Two entries are common, four are uncommon and five are rare. Size difference at 5 percent and morphophilia at 3 stand apart, one the everyday interest and the other the clinical umbrella that is reported for many body shapes at once; the fantasy entries between them sit at 1 percent or less. One ordinary interest, and a family of fictions that share its logic.
Common questions
What is macrophilia?
An interest in extreme size disparity: attraction to a partner imagined as vastly larger, or to being the small one in that pairing. Macrophilia covers the general case, and scale is the entire content, so the scenarios turn on perspective, vulnerability and being handled rather than on any particular act. Almost all of it is written and drawn rather than done.
Is macrophilia the same as a giantess fetish?
One sits inside the other. Macrophilia is the general attraction to great size, and giantess fetish is its most visible form, a large woman and a tiny observer, which dominates the art and fiction the interest produces. Shrinking tells much the same scenario from the small end, and many people hold both perspectives.
Is vore a size kink?
It belongs to the same family, since it depends on one party being large enough to swallow another whole. Vore is almost entirely a fiction and art interest, drawn or written rather than enacted, and it typically keeps the swallowed party alive and aware, which is what separates it from any interest in injury or death.
What are expansion and growth fetishes?
A neighbouring cluster in which the change of size is the event rather than the state. Breast expansion, muscle growth and body inflation turn on watching a body enlarge, while weight gain is the slow and physically possible version of the same idea. Transformation supplies the narrative arc these interests are built around.
Do people act any of this out?
Only the shallow end. Extreme scale cannot be staged, so macrophilia, giantess and vore stay in stories, art and animation, which is part of why they cohere as a group. The practicable versions are ordinary: a marked height or build gap in size difference, or lift and carry, where one partner physically picks the other up.