did you feel like you were fetishized during your pregnancy simply for being pregnant?

Yeah definitely! I had one follow me around a store and ask for my number when I was like 9 months pregnant. Then another was stalking me at WalMart, also around 9 months pregnant…I literally had to wait in the bathroom for 20 mins in hopes he’d leave me alone lol fucking weirdos out here

hard question to answer and i guess more context for what you mean. my partner finds me insanely attractive whilst pregnant. he of course finds me attractive even when i’m not, but he just thinks im a milf 🤣and he thinks being the mother of his kids is a huge turn on, which i don’t think makes him a pedo or weird, i think it’s flattering. if it’s random men, then i may question that, and what i’m describing may be completely different to what you’re meaning but im taking your post as “*anyone* who fancies a pregnant woman gives pedo vibes”, so i could be misinterpreting. but my partner thinks me being pregnant makes me even hotter and more attractive to him because i am carrying his children and growing them / creating a life WE created together and he loves that. again though i could be wrong by what you’re meaning as such xx

I had this the other day a couple of men gave me some disgusting looks and gestures I am 8 months pregnant! Totally weirdos. Never had this before in the UK.

I was pregnant when I was 20, 30, and now at 32. I noticed it more with my first but now being pregnant and carrying around and little cherub of a 1 yr old by myself; particularly if I'm in a summer dress or dresses up, I definitely notice the attention! And my husband tells me he find me pregnant adorable. But I never feel more uncomfortable being creeped on than when I'm pregnant with my child with me. Like I obviously have a wedding ring on too and I think it just makes me feel vulnerable.

Why does it give you pedo vibes?

@Raqi if anything I think pregnancy is the biological height of a woman's femininity but I DON'T think there's any correlation between men being attracted to a pregnant woman and pedophilia. Yeah, kind of an offbeat comment

Yep.. My friend had just started seeing a guy and she sent him a Snapchat of us together one day and he went on on to her about how much he loves pregnant woman and then tried to add and message me on insta 🤢

@Tiffany I'm all in on how a lot of beauty standards and ideals for women are borderline pedophiliac, but the idea that pregnancy gives someone pedo vibes was new to me! I'm super curious

@Raqi I don't feel that way, I get men are attracted to youth because that on a biological level= child bearing age. But there's a definite line between being attracted to children vs young women. Most actual pedophiles loose attraction to girls that hit puberty.

@Tiffany a lot of beauty ideals for women specifically mimic prepubescent girls, like hairlessness for example. Here's a piece that conveys what I'm trying to express more eloquently if you're interested https://medium.com/@taylorpercella/the-infantilization-of-women-and-pedophilic-beauty-standards-in-western-culture-5c076e61621c

Yes ! We had one guy in the restaurant I worked at who gave me some weird vibes but I try to be friendly to everyone and anyways he told me about being in town for work and asked how far along I was and then kept trying to give me advice on how I can get my figure back in shape after having the baby . This man put all my female coworkers on edge so our boss and manager agreed that we all had to leave work in pairs when walking to the parking lot for safety reasons and he was later banned from the restaurant for his behavior towards another coworker.

I hope not lol 🤣 I try not to judge but like this one is very uncomfortable lol , especially when people make a fetish out of breastfeeding 💀🤢🤮

I dont think I’ve experienced this but I wonder if it’s related to fertility

@Raqi because i supposed it could be like an inflation kink but when they just harp on and on and on about how my big belly is “sooo sexy” it’s like well its big all the time 💀. and i don’t get that when there’s not a baby in there so the only difference is her existence. (maybe it’s my body dysmorphia but i felt like i looked the same pregnant as i did not pregnant.) also if you haven’t spoken to or dealt with a man directly who does idk how to describe the vibes they give off bc it’s always creepy as can be

@Victoria~ ya idk i had a guy say the thing for him was that he would get to get a woman pregnant and that was hot somehow?? but then in the same breath he just thought all pregnant ladies were sexy. and it’s like obviously he didn’t impregnate all of them. and he watched (lesbian) pregnant / breastfeeding porn which is a whole other beast. bc it’s like why are you already exploiting the baby before it’s even alive? and especially in that fashion?? because if i guy wasn’t into the pregnancy aspect they wouldn’t watch / seek it out. and obviously i haven’t seen it but i can imagine they play up the pregnancy aspect and i assume you can see the baby moving the whole time? my babies dad thought it was fun to do the do. but once i got pregnant he wouldn’t have sex w me bc he was a “well i don’t wanna hurt the babes head” guy and thought it was weird that she was just right there between us. despite being told by multiple ppl it doesn’t work like that 😂

Oh goodness. The porn thing makes me uncomfortable 😬

@Raqi I get what you're saying to an extent but some of it sounds like feminist bs too. My husband knew he wasn't gay as a kid because he found body hair repulsive, as a masculine trait, doesn't mean he's attracted to minors. I think in the instance of body hair, women having it has been seen as the opposite of feminine for a long time and is a cultural thing. I don't see it being any connection to pedophilia. That's a stretch

My cousin definitely was. Her baby’s father left her when she found out about the pregnancy. She dated someone during the last couple months of the pregnancy who would suck her colostrum out and post the weirdest sexual photos of her body. He’d constantly rub her belly and she’d tell me stories about their sex life that were so bizarre. He even lied saying he was in college so they couldn’t see each other during the day and could only spend time together at night. She asked him to go to the hospital with her during the baby’s birth and thought he’d want to take on a stepdad role. The day she went into labor, he blocked her number and social media. Never heard from him again. It was wild.

@Tay that is horrific 😭

@Cerys I just remembered the worst part- my cousin had just turned 18 and the man was 26 years old. She didn’t even graduate high school until after the baby was born. He completely fetishized her youth, her pregnant belly, producing breasts, and unborn baby made by another man. Totally fucking weird.

Definitely 🤢 I post tiktoks and the number of "saves" I get on videos where you can see my bump vs not is really jarring. Also lots of creepy comments and messages.

@Raqi oh gross I never thought of that 😩