THANKS TO FALSE yet persistent perceptions of masculinity in our culture, a lot of men would cringe at the idea of being thought of as short, or worse, small. (One survey found that 80% of men have exaggerated their height on dating apps.)
But for people with an interest in macrophilia, or giantess kinks, the idea of being tiny is a total turn-on. People a giantess kink may watch giantess porn, and they love the idea of a giant woman towering over them, or of being shrunk down, Honey I Shrunk The Kids style, so that their partner is a giant by comparison.
The idea of a giant woman as a sex symbol (and often figure of destruction and mayhem) has been around for a while. The early days of sci-fi cinema saw cult hits like 1958’s Attack of the 50 Foot Woman; in the movie poster, a giant woman, scantily-clad in a white bikini and mini skirt, straddles a highway. Since then, tongue-in-cheek pastiches and B movies have also featured this same hot-giant-woman trope. There’s Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader (which delivers pretty much what it promises), Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfold (ditto), and the DC Comics character Giganta. Recently, White Lotus star Jennifer Coolidge posed as a city-wrecking giantess in a quirky W Magazine photoshoot with iconic fashion photographer Daniels.
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And then there’s giantess porn. There are almost 6,000 videos for the search term “giantess” on PornHub. Some of these videos are animated, showing men climbing into the vaginas of gigantic women, being lifted up and flung about, or getting squashed beneath the giantess’ body. In other videos, real performers use false perspectives to make themselves look huge and jeer down at the camera, giving the viewer the POV of a tiny person staring up helplessly.
Why do people have giantess kinks?
Justin Lehmiller, Ph.D., a researcher at the Kinsey Institute and member of the Men’s Health Advisory Panel, interviewed 4,175 Americans about their sexual fantasies for his book Tell Me What You Want. He found that 1 in 3 expressed an interest in mythical creatures of some kind.
Based on the way it’s depicted in porn, “There tend to be strong themes of dominance and submission, so the root of the appeal likely stems from an interest in power play,” Lehmiller explains. Although many kinks involve aspects of power play, the fantasy elements of macrophilia could be a way for men to engage with a taboo with less shame, because the “giant” has removed agency from the person in the more submissive role.
Alice Faye is a New York based content creator who makes custom content and role plays for men with giantess kinks. “A request that really stuck in my head was a scenario where I used magic to shrink a guy down and then made him indestructible and unable to die,” Alice says. “Then he was assigned the task of being my food, so he would exit through my bowel movements and then be eaten and expelled repeatedly.”
As well as creating specific fantasy storylines like this for her clients, Alice creates video content where she uses false perspective. The camera might be angled up a skirt from the floor while she seems to tower high above, or a giant-seeming foot might come toward the camera, as though from the POV of a tiny person about to be squished. Some of this content she distributes through a platform dedicated to giantess kinks called LTLGiantess.com.
The platform’s founder, Dylan, says he enjoys giantess fantasies because of the “power dynamic.” There’s an appeal in “being helpless to a woman as she does whatever she wants with me, as well as being able to enjoy every aspect of her body,” he says. “Every part of her is magnified in this fantasy, so it’s about being able to enjoy her in a way you never could at normal size.”
Giantess kinks may be especially popular among men.
Dylan has noticed that his platform is especially popular among heterosexual cisgender men. The same is true for Alice’s giantess content. That tracks with Lehmiller’s findings, too. Though people with giantess kinks represented less than 1% of his sample, “Everyone who reported giant/giantess fantasies were men,” Lehmiller says.
According to one study of 4,573 Americans, 76% of men feel pressured to take care of their families financially and 68% feel pressure to be successful in their careers. In this context, it’s perhaps easy to see how becoming unimportant or unnoticed in the presence of an unconquerable creature could be a brief respite.
Giantess role-play scenes often involve the human being trapped or squashed. They’re quite literally overwhelmed by the size and strength of the giant, rendered so tiny as to become inconsequential. “One request I had was for me to be trying on underwear not even realizing the little person is there, and then they get ‘stuck’ on the inside of my bra,” says Zara Fox, another custom creator of giantess content.
This desire to be overlooked and overpowered in an offhand way appeals to Dylan, too.
“It’s a total power shift,” Dylan explains. “Even if you wanted to take control, you’re totally helpless. I know a lot of guys enjoy the element of feeling insignificant to the giantess in these scenes. She can flip your world upside down and not even know it.”
Abby Moss is a London-based freelance journalist specializing in sex and relationships.
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