The burping fetish is mentioned on the Wikipedia article for "Burping"

[Dripdrip]

Burping

The direct quote from the article is:
Despite virtually no scientific research on the subject, small online communities exist for burping as a sexual fetish.[16] Online, both men and women of any sexual orientation anecdotally report some attraction to burping, with what appears to be psychological and/or behavioural overlaps with other sexual fetishes including body inflation, feederism, vorarephilia, and farting fetishes.[17] Anecdotally, the ‘loudness’ aspect appears to be an important element to burp fetishists. Despite being a rather uncommon fetish,[18] it continues to follow a general well-known pattern of sexual behaviour where hearing influences sexual arousal and response, noting that “it is the noise made rather than the action itself that appears to be what is sexualized and/or interpreted by the fetishist as sexually pleasurable and arousing”.

Has anyone else noticed this? How do you guys feel about being mentioned like this? I’d personally prefer if the fetish didn’t get mentioned like this, but there’s not really much we can do about it.

[GasGuru720]

Never knew about knew this. I wonder if this has been on there for a while or if its been added recently. Looking at some of the sources included in their explanation there are a few article’s that have been made about this fetish. Most seem to mention this forum in some way.

As for my thoughts on us being mentioned like this, as long as we have burp fetishists being wreckless/careless/creepy(whether it be on here or outside the forum) there will be more people who don’t have or know about the fetish that start to take note of it.

[MrDrProfessor]

The only good thing I see about this is representation but other than this I don’t really like it. Though I have read those articles before and they are pretty interesting so at least they have sources.

[pu_sh_it]

It’s fine in my view. Wikipedia is part of the scientific method and the collective knowledge base. Anything can be fetishised, and anything that can be is fair game to be written about in the global encyclopedia, from facefucking to being attracted to items of clothing. Maybe on the shoe fetish forum they are having the same debate we are. But also, think about it rationally but from another angle. Around 95% of people who burp without knowing this fetish exists, are not going to check out the Wikipedia page on the common bodily function they do on a daily basis. The very great majority of the risk of our fetish leaking and having cascading negative consequences comes from the perverts who make comments and can’t help themselves (on platforms like TikTok or in public like DannyWiiU), not from Wikipedia. And much as we try we can only stem the tide of that problem. That balloon cannot unpop.

Or in other words, this isn’t possible.

[DeaeRuctum]

I’m not sure I really like the implication of most of this thread. At its core, this is kind of an issue of consent and since in most cases the non fetishist party is either willing or will never know how their content is viewed, it doesn’t matter. But the fact that many people who create content (either as a one time clip or as a series) without knowing that it’s basically pornography for some people, does make me uncomfortable even if I’m still probably a hypocrite as one of those fetishists. It may mean less free content, but I’m of the mind that people should have informed consent to how their content is being percieved. Though, the more obvious extension of this is that there’s a fetish for everything and so there’s basically no action that can’t be documented to become pornography for somebody, so idk

[Q]

It seems like someone added it in June 2021. I don’t think it’s dangerous to be there but probably isn’t really necessary to mention stuff like which parts of burping are the most attractive to fetishists. I checked a couple of other body function articles and there’s no similar mention of sexuality. Probably that section would get removed if someone were to review it.

I still think it’s funny that we made it into the Independent.

[MrDrProfessor]

Some good points were raised that I didnt really think about. I don’t think anybody will actively search the wiki page for burping unless they have some sort of health condition or for research. The likelihood of someone reading every word top to bottom to stumble across the fetish part I feel is a little slim.

[Q]

Inside the world of the burping fetish community

‘I’ve never heard anyone burp like she does. It’s a major turn on’

For many people, burping is disgusting and rude. But for some, belching is a major sexual turn on.

People with the unusual fetish can find it arousing to watch other people burp, or to burp themselves.

Those who are turned on by burping seek each other out and share their desires and links belching videos on the website Burp Fetish Forums, which contains thousands of posts. Gifs and images of people burping as their profile photos are not uncommon on the website.

One 42-year-old user RobbyBoy0 revealed that he “likes guys who can burp on command”. On the same thread, a 25-year-old fetishist called Burpboy wrote: “I do some very good burping of my own!” and invited others to contact him.

“I have a friend that I just found out is an amazing burper. He showed me his ‘talent’ and yeah it was pretty exciting to say the least. I had to sort of, shift my position to hide my shame.”

“Would it be OK to record someone burping without them knowing if it’s just a one time thing?” asked one anonymous user.

Describing a girl in his class who “out of nowhere lets out these huge burps”, he asked other members of the community if it is “wrong” to get a recording of her.

“I’ve never heard anyone burp like she does. NEVER. before and obviously it’s a major turn on. I kept shifting around in my seat and I could barely control myself. I couldn’t take it anymore so at the end of class I took out my phone and started a recording (discretely, no one saw) and quickly put it back in my bag while it was recording. Sadly, she didn’t do it again.”

“It’s just really hot and obviously I’m not going to straight up ask her. It’s weird and I don’t even want anyone to know I have this fetish. It’s extremely embarrassing to me but it’s beyond my control.”

“Don’t do it man it’s just wrong,” stressed Trappin, adding that he also recorded a girl burping but “couldn’t even enjoy the recording because I felt so damn guilty. That guilt will eat you up bro.”

Another similarly frustrated person wrote: “I’m honestly starting to hate it… Can’t find the perfect person I have to find a cure,” admitted one user on the “So bored with fetish” thread.

In a blog post about burping, Dr Mark Griffiths, Professor of Gambling Studies at Nottingham Trent University, who is an expert in obsessional behaviours, wrote that burping is one of the “strangest and perhaps one of the least commonplace” fetishes he has come across.

“There is (perhaps unsurprisingly) absolutely nothing in the academic or clinical literature on burping fetishism,” he said.

“The ‘loudness’ aspect appears to be an important element to burp fetishists,” he argued, adding: “In this sense, it is the noise made rather than the action itself that appears to be what is sexualised and or interpreted by the fetishist as sexually pleasurable and arousing. In sexual behaviour more generally, hearing quite clearly influences sexual arousal and response.”

[pu_sh_it]

They neglected deep belch addiction in their research, I daresay that element is more important than loudness for many of us. But, cool article.

[pu_sh_it]

It’s like I said, you can’t really make people forget certain things unless you have some hypnosis witchcraft skills. Information spreads like fire.

[anon76871659]

Yeah surely it isn’t a common enough fetish to warrant a mention in the Wiki. I would imagine it’s someone very close to the community who added it. Feet, leather, balloons… maybe. But not burping

[DeaeRuctum]

Judging by the fact that this was added by an anonymous user with only an ip address and no username and it’s their only edit, I would imagine it is someone with the fetish or otherwise linked

[Skyvessel]

Do people think it would be better or worse if the fetish was more mainstream?

[sexygirlburp]

I would assume worse, we already have way too many people who ruin the fun for us quiet observers

[anon76871659]

Worse. I feel like We’re already getting to the point where it’s going to be taboo to burp on the internet. I wouldn’t be surprised if it eventually reaches foot fetish level of visibility, even though way fewer people have a burp fetish than a foot fetish.

[DeaeRuctum]

At the risk of repeating myself, don’t you think people should be able to properly consent to creating the kind of content that’s getting put online? If the knowledge of the fetish would stop someone from publishing someone, then you’re using their ignorance to your benefit. The greatest impact would be a decrease of free content from unknowing participants and there’s an argument to be made that such shouldn’t exist.

[Q]

It’s a difficult issue. Essentially you’re asking whether a person is allowed to regard another person in a sexual way without first getting permission from that other person. I can’t think of any solution to that problem that wouldn’t be unrealistic. For example you could make all sexual interests known in advance in any interaction you have with another person, but that would be rather a strange way to behave.

I think really the most sex positive solution is to just accept that sometimes people are going to find each other sexually attractive. A good way to think about it is to think about how you would feel yourself in that position and whether or not it would bother you. If someone (who I didn’t find sexually attractive at all for the sake of argument) was thinking about me in a sexual way, I wouldn’t really be offended. If they tried to get me to do something I didn’t want to do, that would be another issue, but just looking at me, in the way that people on this site might look at youtubers etc, I don’t think that’s a sin.

[DeaeRuctum]

At some point I’m going to write a whole essay or something about this subject, but in short, this issue intersects with internet culture and people seeking fame. A lot of people seem to follow what the algorithim encourages in terms of likes, so even if we, the fetishists, don’t interact at all, we still algorithmically tell these people to make more content and thus to unknowingly create essentially porn to appease an audience that they don’t understand.
I think the important difference in the fetish and just finding someone sexually attractive for other reasons, is the expectation of some control. Isn’t a major part of the reason we have age laws for people to create (even solo) pornography because they need to be able to fully understand what they’re getting into and how people will engage with it? A lot of women wouldn’t walk around in just a bra because they understand how (unfortunately) many creepy guys would see them, even outside of any nonconsensual action that might happen as a result. They have the agency to try to control how their body is seen because of how they understand “standard” sexuality. Fetishism complicates that.
What I’m trying to get at has more to do with content creation (by which I mean beyond single pieces of content) rather than real life interactions. If you think people would be grossed out to learn that what they’ve been making because they think people find it funny is actually a sex thing, then maybe it’s not ethical to encourage them to make it without a proper understanding of how it appeals to its audience

[ruttofan]

Wikipedia isn’t the definitive source for facts. Many people can edit articles. If I were to look up burping on Wikipedia, I would prefer a more old school Encyclopedia article about the medical and physiological aspects. I think the fetish idea doesn’t belong there as much as I wish my arousal by burps to be more normative in society. I’m torn.

[anon76871659]

Idk I’m a writer and I publish stuff and I know that I have no control over how some people take my work. It’s my “content” or IP but the nature of publishing anything is that you relinquish some control over it. So while I think it’s fair and right for someone to be free of harassment for sure, I can’t say it’s reasonable for someone to expect to know exactly how everyone online is interpreting or using their published content