(December 28, 2023, 2:00 pm)push4u Yes. Lots on Tumblr, DeviantArt, etc.

Source: me, a woman

Any good communities in particular for RP/discussion?

The unfortunate thing is social media fetish communities tend to be like 95% sausage fest and 5% pussy. It’s difficult to balance the scales because men seem to be drawn toward these places more than women are. I’m not sure why that is the case.

(December 28, 2023, 12:58 am)Akhenaten I went on a few dates with one about a decade ago. She was definitely into it, but sadly, we did not have any chemistry.

So, yes, there are female maiesiophiles and gravidophiles. But either they're exceedingly rare, or they're the champions of Hide & Seek.

I'd say it's a combo of the two. Example, moi: I think le pregnant form, especially a fit pregnancy, is sexy AF, but all the stuff that comes with/after (puking, having what's basically a polite-ish version of a crotchburster rewriting my neurology, the left-behind bits of fetal tissue manipulating you for the rest of your days, the whole birth thing, and being stuck being a mom for the rest of one's life) are a distinct nuh-uh for me. I'm also VERY gei, and if my folks found out about THIS kink, it'd probably become a combo of, eh, well... "When're you getting married? I know you'd love to give us grandbabies!" and "sky daddy pohbah has given you a SIGN, to show you the truth of man and woman, to free you from the SIN of GAY!!!" way, WAAAAY too fast. *shudder*

Anywho, if you chucked me in a world where A) I had total, utter, COMPLETE control of my body, so I control every possible aspect of pregnancy, from yes-vs-no, to speed, to forward/reverse, to birth (or not to birth, that is the question, O Horatio! ), not to mention no chance of aging or disease to put a damper on things, AND (aside from the whole "gravity" and "getting kicked from inside" things) pregnancy had no negative side-effects, AND I had a nice, robust support network of other folks who were practically worshipful of parenthood to take Le Spawn so I didn't have to lose my individuality to momhood, AND where two women could make babies, THEN I might actually go for it IRL. But since we don't live in Perfect Maternity Fantasyland, and ol' Nature is a massive b**ch, I'm kinda... Stuck. *le sigh*

Sorry 'bout the wee dramatic Wall-O-Word there, I guess all this has been weighing on me for a while, and I kinda haven't had a decent outlet for a long while!

(December 28, 2023, 2:00 pm)push4u Yes. Lots on Tumblr, DeviantArt, etc.

Source: me, a woman

Ayo sister!

Warning! Nerdy shit ahead!

Pregnancy fetishism (aka maiesiophilia) has been studied pretty intensively. The findings are pretty interesting, because researchers were able to distinguish between different types of pregnancy-oriented fetishes and even determine how some of them are acquired. The basic sexual attraction to pregnant women (focus on the large belly, and the concept of procreation) is the most straightforward (we'll refer to it as maiesiophilia from now on) and is separate from other fetishes of this nature (inflation, hyperpreg, mpreg, etc - we'll call these forms of paraphilia but it's not because I dislike them, they're just more advanced forms of the basic fetish and are more complex in acquisition).

Put simply, the vast majority of maiesiophiles (myself included) have siblings that are somewhere between 1 and 2 years younger than themselves and have a present mother figure at the time. To go into depth, babies tend to be weaned off breast milk somewhere between 6 months and two years of age with a strong preference toward the 6-to-8 month skew (because that's when babies start teething and moms don't usually enjoy that). Moms stop producing breastmilk shortly after - much to a baby's dismay even if they don't have the presence of mind to conceptualize that, much less object to it. However, a couple months after giving birth, a loving couple might succeed in conceiving again; nine months later, a new baby - the aforementioned baby's sibling - is born. At the same time, mom starts lactating again and might start giving breastmilk to the year-old baby as well. It's just convenient and it isn't abnormal for babies under two to be drinking breastmilk anyway. In the older baby's mind, they see mom grow a big belly and then suddenly start giving them breastmilk again (which babies like a lot). These stimuli seem to mix together and then manifest in the subconscious mind later in life as a sexual fascination with pregnancy.

This method of acquiring maiesiophilia seems to be the most common and is not dependent on gender/sex. Plenty of us gals are into pregnancy, although we're much less likely to place a heavy emphasis on it psychologically. To put it shortly, women tend to develop much more complex sexual aversions and propensities so maiesiophilia usually takes a backstage role. Not to mention our behavioral differences which leads most women away from niche online spaces. If an online forum is like a town, we prefer the big cities like twitter(sorry, I mean X) or facebook - and cities tend to be a lot more socially constricting so girls tend to be a lot quieter about how they might stand out.

TL;DR - we do exist, we just really like anonymity.

I'm also curious if anyone here also shares this 1-2 year younger sibling trait.

(December 29, 2023, 1:38 am)SirenBrink I'm also curious if anyone here also shares this 1-2 year younger sibling trait.

My brother was born two months after my third birthday, but that probably doesn't count. 

I remember my mom would let me listen to her belly often though. Most of the other women in the neighborhood were pregnant at that time too.

(December 29, 2023, 1:38 am)SirenBrink Warning! Nerdy shit ahead!

Pregnancy fetishism (aka maiesiophilia) has been studied pretty intensively. The findings are pretty interesting, because researchers were able to distinguish between different types of pregnancy-oriented fetishes and even determine how some of them are acquired. The basic sexual attraction to pregnant women (focus on the large belly, and the concept of procreation) is the most straightforward (we'll refer to it as maiesiophilia from now on) and is separate from other fetishes of this nature (inflation, hyperpreg, mpreg, etc - we'll call these forms of paraphilia but it's not because I dislike them, they're just more advanced forms of the basic fetish and are more complex in acquisition).

Put simply, the vast majority of maiesiophiles (myself included) have siblings that are somewhere between 1 and 2 years younger than themselves and have a present mother figure at the time. To go into depth, babies tend to be weaned off breast milk somewhere between 6 months and two years of age with a strong preference toward the 6-to-8 month skew (because that's when babies start teething and moms don't usually enjoy that). Moms stop producing breastmilk shortly after - much to a baby's dismay even if they don't have the presence of mind to conceptualize that, much less object to it. However, a couple months after giving birth, a loving couple might succeed in conceiving again; nine months later, a new baby - the aforementioned baby's sibling - is born. At the same time, mom starts lactating again and might start giving breastmilk to the year-old baby as well. It's just convenient and it isn't abnormal for babies under two to be drinking breastmilk anyway. In the older baby's mind, they see mom grow a big belly and then suddenly start giving them breastmilk again (which babies like a lot). These stimuli seem to mix together and then manifest in the subconscious mind later in life as a sexual fascination with pregnancy.

This method of acquiring maiesiophilia seems to be the most common and is not dependent on gender/sex. Plenty of us gals are into pregnancy, although we're much less likely to place a heavy emphasis on it psychologically. To put it shortly, women tend to develop much more complex sexual aversions and propensities so maiesiophilia usually takes a backstage role. Not to mention our behavioral differences which leads most women away from niche online spaces. If an online forum is like a town, we prefer the big cities like twitter(sorry, I mean X) or facebook - and cities tend to be a lot more socially constricting so girls tend to be a lot quieter about how they might stand out.

TL;DR - we do exist, we just really like anonymity.

I'm also curious if anyone here also shares this 1-2 year younger sibling trait.

Oh, is we nerding? I love nerding!
Anywho, while I agree that there could be a Pavlovian conditioning element, I think it's more likely that there are some SERIOUSLY powerful evolutionary drivers as well, considering that evolution doesn't actually give two f**ks as to whether you're "better" or "happy", and only really considers whether you A) have a bunch of offspring, and B) that those offspring reproduce themselves: even if there's a gene that gives the bearer biological immortality, if they only have two kids before their village is pillaged and burned to the ground, with all occupants eliminated... Welp, bye-bye immortality gene! This goes doubly so considering that this kink is actually quite common: IIRC, about 25-30% of adults have had it at some point, with roughly 7-13% having it "often" (which I interpret as having the full-blown kink, at least to some degree), and the rate apparently INCREASES among trans/NB persons! As such, I have some scenarios to consider:

1: LESBIANS! and other LGBT+ "Birthing Persons"
This one is *quite* personal, as some folks may have figured out by now. Consider this: had I been born only about 30-50 years earlier, lacking the resources and psychological support I have access to growing up, I could well have ended up in a (rather unhappy) marriage to a man. Had that been the case, probably the only thing preventing "self termination" so to speak would likely have been my reproductive fetish! Considering that roughly 1-10% of women IIRC identify as lesbian depending on definition, social pressure/culture, and so on, and that's A LOT of, eh, "less than pleased" mothers. That right there is a powerful evolutionary selector, especially if you have a male with a "harem" of females at his, ahem, "disposal": if one or more of the women of said harem is LGBT+, if she isn't "turned on" by pregnancy, that could have catastrophic social repercussions across the entire harem if said male basically goes and forces her repeatedly: for one thing, if he can do it to her, he can do it to YOU. That would result in a strong, negative drive of the harem toward the male, possibly leading to sterilization and/or death, reducing his reproductive success rate. But if said LGBT+ "birthing persons" have said pregnancy kink, they're probably going to be MUCH more cooperative in the harem environment, especially if it means a sexy pregnant girlfriend, or that wonderful pregnant belly for themselves.
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2: Forceful reproductive biology...
As folks here are doubtlessly aware, females of our species have *delightful* monthly experiences (roughly, varies by person). This is because we have a rather nasty thing called an "invasive placenta", which is incredibly rare across the placental mammals, and for good reason. See, the NORMAL placenta seen in probably 99% of placental mammals sits calmly on the surface of the uterus, passively absorbing nutrients until *ding* out pops the baby. This is GREAT, because it doesn't really f**k up the mother's biophysiology or neurology much, and keeps fetal cells OUT, preventing them from further screwing with her postpartum and potentially even causing cancer due to the genetic chimerism. This also means mama is ALWAYS in charge: stress out a NORMAL placental mammal enough, by say, repeatedly sexually assaulting or forcing her, and she may even REABSORB your would-be offspring, or kill them postpartum as they haven't f**ked with her brain wiring as much. Congrats, your bioevolutionary success is now ZERO! This is similar to how reproduction choice can occur in oviparous species: if mama doesn't like a suitor, she can roll the eggs out of the nest. Bye-bye!

Humans, a bunch of higher primates, dogs, and certain species of bats though, we don't have it NEARLY as easy: the placenta invades like a cancer, resulting in what's closer to a biological version of Antietam or Verdun between the placenta and the mother's main tissues, and of course various infiltrating cell lines that release hormones to force mama to dump further nutrients into the fetal area and rewire her brain to force an increased maternal attachment (needless to say, the neural rewire doesn't always seem to "take", which can result in, eh, "hazardous" mamas). IIRC, it's estimated that some 75% or more of the energy a human mother uses in that later stages of pregnancy is dumped into this absurd biological battle. This is also why human pregnancies result in immunodepression: the fetus is doing literally everything in it's power to enslave mom's biology to its bidding. Thus, the reason for everything from the menstrual cycle (you need a way of clearing out any and all possible "failures" as we cannot simply reabsorb the biomass like most SANE species) to "morning sickness" and random pregnancy hair/pimples (fetus hormones, please kindly eff off). I find it quite telling that basically all maternity related issues with humans are a result of either this hostile pregnancy or bipedalism (which selects for relatively narrow hips, producing a rather familiar problem).


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3: ... And nasty social pressures
Taking all this into account, what the F**K keeps humans reproducing throughout history and prehistory?!
Well, part of it seems to be a powerful male drive to dominate and control: looking at most of human history, stories, and even our smut, you'll quickly find a theme of male power fantasies, ranging from "kidnap the Female Knight to make her fall in love with you", to "sleeping beauty falls in love with whoever kisses her", to "force her 'till she gives consent", and beyond. Oftentimes, such cultural materials will sanitize and glamourize what is, in reality, absolute SUCK for the poor women on the dirty end of the stick. This suggests that throughout human and likely much of prehuman history, females of the species were often "forced", meaning that any adaptation that would increase the reproductive rate of a "forced" female is going to get passed on, especially considering our social nature provides support to the "forced", somewhat balancing out the truly massive biological costs associated with non-consensual reproduction. We also see this, again, culturally, in the form or common "paternalistic" and patriarchal governance/religion.
However, we're a SELF AWARE species, adding a further twist: we can ignore biological drives! As such, enter maiesiophilia: if a male finds a pregnant female "hot", he's going to do EVERYTHING he can for the "hot". Likewise, if women find they're "turned on" by being pregnant, well, suddenly we're probably willing to put up with A LOT more s**t than we otherwise would have! Behold, another huge evolutionary driver for a seemingly niche kink. Ironically, if humans had reproductive functions that WEREN'T all kinds of f**ked up, and human males didn't have such a strong "dominate/force" driver, maesiophilia would likely be even more common, as many of the negatives associated with pregnancy would be gone right to the bin, likely giving maesiophiliacs further increased reproductive fitness. Example: if I HAD to have a husband and do the "straight thing", I'd want a guy who was small, gentle, polite, and generally as minimally masculine as possible. I'd say this section ends up combining what's been covered in sections 1 and 2 to a certain degree.
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Anywho, that's my bioevolutionary layperson analysis on the potential origins of maiesiophilia. Moving on, as to WHY we tend to keep quiet in the ladies section, I'd say SB has it nailed: we exist, but we don't make NEARLY as big a deal out of it publicly, and additionally I'd say the sort of inherent awareness of the costs and drawbacks of the whole "mom thing" gives a sense of empathy toward other women who happen to be pregnant, along with an understanding that while we might find in majorly hot, we may not actually want to experience it ourselves due to the huge social and health costs involved (example, my bod has enough problems as-is, and I LIKE being able to work 9-5 with breaks, instead of 24-7 with no breaks).

Yeah, I'm a woman who has the fetish and has been pregnant. I've been visiting this site since December 2019, though I only recently signed up. I sort of wish there was a way to verify it with the website, because it seems as if the instinct in heavily male spaces like this is to assume women who visit have an economic angle or are actually men who like to roleplay as women.

Part of why I visit here is to feel less alone in my fascination/love/fetishization of pregnancy, but then I'm beset by another type of loneliness that women are rarely partaking in this kind of thing and that a percentage of the user-base only regard women as sexual objects.

They do absolutely exist. As already discussed - there's numerous examples out there on the likes of Tumblr, DeviantArt e.t.c. Many years ago you'd also find them on the likes of YouTube until they cracked down on such content.

Personally, I've never met one face to face. Or to put it more fairly, I've never met one who has openly stated anything which could be interpreted as the pregnancy fetish. About the closest I've come to knowing/meeting a woman knowing about the fetish is a work colleague of mine who I do genuinely get along quite well with. She wasn't speaking to me directly at the time but there was an occasion several years ago where she was talking to another colleague about "some men being into that kind of thing" with a negative, dismissive tone. This was whilst she was discussing her last pregnancy. My ears pricked up at this point and I will admit I did feel rather disheartened. 

To answer SirenBrink's question - I'm the youngest!

(December 31, 2023, 4:49 am)Twinmom ...it seems as if the instinct in heavily male spaces like this is to assume women who visit have an economic angle or are actually men who like to roleplay as women.

...women are rarely partaking in this kind of thing and that a percentage of the user-base only regard women as sexual objects.

I'm male, but here's my thoughts on this. 

There's also the trend of women getting at least one creepy DM after making their gender known in male dominated spaces, so the average female poster will stay ambiguous. That leaves the women with a business angle and role-players. I think this leads to a feedback loop, and thus the stereotypes and kneejerk reactions.

It doesn't help that the men on niche and/or sexual sites tend to be both socially awkward and sexually starved.

I (female) am massively into it! I loved being pregnancy and all the sexual activity during it and also love meeting pregnant women ?