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

I think the topic of whether it’s morally correct to ask someone to burp on video when they don’t know your true intentions or to view their burping video in a sexual way when it was not intended in that way is long overdue.
Personally I believe that anyone who posts anything online should be expecting criticism, love, hate or even sexualization due to the large amount of groups of people that may stumble upon that media.
Then again to pursue and actively inquire about them making more content of that kind is “shady” and maybe unethical but if it benefits more people (us sharing this content) and if the original person making the content isn’t harassed or treated to ungodly amounts of creepy comments maybe it’s sort of okay?
I don’t think there’s a clear cut answer to this. In the end we all consume content which has originated one way or the other, whether it be from inquiring or from a random post, nevertheless it’s all in a sexual way.

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I guess I just see some difference between the framing of creating art like writing, and online content creation like vlogs, tiktoks, or streams. People will post things on their social media that they know are public but also post with the knowledge that only a small circle of friends will ever see. I hesitate to deny these people the label of art but I think part of creating art is that acceptance that the work will speak for itself outside of you, but a lot of this more personal and less artistic content is made as an extension of a person’s life. I think there’s also like a gap between losing control of interpretation which is more what we’re talking about with writing, and losing control of your own image. I guess I just don’t want the discussion to boil down to “you have to accept that anything on the internet is going to be used as porn by some weirdo” because it feels like such a denial of any responisbility on our part, especially when we (as a community) are both encouring more of this content, even just algorithmically, and also asking each other to hide our true intentions from the creators.

If it does become more mainstream wouldn’t it just be like some of the other well known fetishes and just be more catered to sexually ? Rather than girls on YT, tiktok etc who didn’t feel comfortable. There’s already loads of that anyways with people making burp videos for money. So I don’t really see it as a big deal

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WE MADE IT TO THE WIKI BOYS!

I personally would love fetishes to be taken seriously and scientifically explored. There’s a stigma out there that this is all “useless” research because it deals with such embarrassing taboo subjects around gas.

I contacted this one psychologist who has been studying gas fetishes, and I told him my story. His research has been the source of ridicule. So if anything, you can imagine how irked I feel about burp fetishism being described as “anecdotal”, because in my head I’m scoffing like “You have no idea how deep this goes!” It’s simply a matter of time before someone out there breaks the mold by conducting a rigorous study and publishes a scientific paper on it.

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Because you know for a fact it was a he.

Right?

I really hope so or I’ll have to do the research by my own :face_with_monocle:

I totally agree with this 100%… And this doesn’t only happen with Burp Fetishists, it’s also with foot fetishists, cough, sneeze, arms, hair, etc… and if we’re on a social media platform publicly like that, we have to take into account that there’s people out there who could easily be fetishizing and fantasizing about us (regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation), it’s the nature of the business, if you don’t feel comfortable with it stay off of public videos as much as possible because there’s no way around it… The ones who understand this the most, I feel, are actors/actresses and singers/bands who I have heard say numerous times that they are fully aware that they have gazillions of fans fantasizing about them, they already know what’s up and are still in the business, those who are uncomfortable with it, and they do exist, eventually live a more solitary life away from social media…

Edit: I’m not excusing those people who do creep content creators out or harass them and become obsessed or something… That’s a whole different subject that I think gets erroneously conflated with your normal every day fetishists who comment on videos, those are two completely different things.

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