Pregnancy porn and lactation fetishes are totally a thing. We want to know why.
Pregnant women glow. A widely held opinion, most people are much more favorable to pregnant women than they are to some others, and not just in a sexual way. They allow them to cut in bathroom lines, offer them a seat on the bus, or in general— just seem happy to help them in any way they can. Most people will happily admit that they love to see the pregnant “waddle” or that expectant mothers somehow seem to just look a bit more pleasant than usual. Some, like those who love to watch pregnant porn, find them incredibly sexy.
Which could seem like a pretty out there fetish if you’ve never seen a pregnant woman as hyper-sexual or you aren’t a male. The overwhelming majority of pregnant porn’s biggest fans are men. So why is it that some men just can’t get enough of that gravid glow?
It’s Perfectly Normal
As with most fringe fetishes and outside of the norm sexual proclivities, getting off on pregnancy porn isn’t something you hear about everyday— or that most fans will immediately tell you about. But just because it’s unusual, doesn’t necessarily make it weird, and it surely doesn’t make it wrong. There is no psychological problem that is directly associated with watching pregnant porn, even though Freud might have a thing or two to say about it. So finding out why it is that so many men are drawn to the genre can be a bit difficult to know for sure, mostly because not many scientists are focused on the question.
While there has yet to be any full-on studies concerning the odd-seeming interest, a few experts have weighed in as to why they believe so many men are getting down with watching the baby bump get dirty. One study suggests that this fetish is largely developed through something called “sexual imprinting”, a behavior that has been observed by researchers in other species like birds or other mammals. Sexual imprinting is essentially when an infant of a species looks to its parents to understand what to look for in a mate. This means that oftentimes, in both our homes and in nature, there is a specific age window in which we will look towards our caregivers (often of the opposite-sex) and they will help us determine what it is we find attractive in a mate.
When it comes to pregnancy and lactation fetishes, the study believes that this largely occurs when a child between the ages of 1.5 and 5 years old is exposed to pregnancy and lactation. The sexual enjoyment of the pregnant form is largely most common in older siblings. Most likely because they experienced their siblings’ pregnancies and births during this sexually relevant time.
Other Theories
While this might be the only recent study on the matter, it doesn’t stop the fact that the pregnant body— swollen belly, wide hips, large breasts— has been seen as not only beautiful, but God-like, for millennia. In ancient cultures, it was completely normal to be surrounded by fertility idols, buxom busts, pregnant paintings, and a number of other representations of the fuller female form. So really, it probably shouldn’t come as too much of a shock that pregnancy porn has become a pretty popular genre in the modern day.
There are also the typical body changes that a woman undergoes during pregnancy that can be easily associated with outer popular fetishes. Categories like big boobs, big ass, wide hips, flexible— are all different genres of porn that are hugely popular, and also ones that few people question. But that’s the thing about both pregnancy and porn preference, some people are really into the idea, some aren’t. But it really doesn’t mean that either camp is doing it right or has it completely wrong.
