{"id":53283,"date":"2022-06-30T22:22:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T13:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nissin.org\/sunny\/?p=53283"},"modified":"2022-06-30T22:30:35","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T13:30:35","slug":"in-another-video-a-woman-rubs-her-belly-sensuously-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nissin.org\/sunny\/shop\/53283.html","title":{"rendered":"In another video, a woman rubs her belly sensuously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><title>In another video, a woman rubs her belly sensuously<\/title><\/p>\n<p>Reclaiming the ubiquitous imagery of \u201cheadless fatties\u201d (Cooper) in media discussions of obesity, one video begins with a full-screen shot of a woman&#8217;s stomach. The camera pans to reveal a box of chocolates balanced on her lap and a hand reaches down to take one. Over the next three wordless minutes, as her fingers move between half-glimpsed chocolate box and unseen mouth, the woman rubs her belly with her other hand, folding and kneading her fat before letting it tumble onto her thighs. In other videos BBWs hold their stomachs to the camera to show how \u201cfull of food,\u201d as one woman puts it, these are. Others adjust their position, clothing and webcams to enable a better view of their stomachs, or as they are more habitually called, their \u201cbellies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rather than read this focus simply as a fetishisation of dislocated body parts, which echoes pornography, here bellies take on significance precisely because they are the \u201csite of incorporation\u201d (Carden-Coyne and Forth 1); they are indexical of eating. \u201d Bellies, thus, gain meaning from eating rather than the other way around. This shift from visuality to viscerality draws us back to the viewpoint of the BBWs; their agency, pleasure and lived materiality is brought literally into the line of the camera.<\/p>\n<h2>Rather, it is turned inwards as women look down at their bodies, roll food around their mouths and lick their fingers<\/h2>\n<p>A family size lasagne a double milkshake a pound of butter melted in mash potatoes with a can of cheese for lunch wait till i get finished stuffing myself becoming fat is the ultimate pleasure.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This woman is not alone in asserting the pleasure of becoming fat. Juxtaposed with articulations of the pleasures of food, together these statements suggest that eating on camera is not so much directed outwards to a desiring gaze. A video in which a woman eats in her parked car begins:<\/p>\n<p>Okay, for lunch I&#8217;ve got some fried chicken; it&#8217;s two pieces with fries, and there&#8217;s lots of ketchup here&#8230; I also got a gravy and a macaroni salad to go with it&#8230; on yeah and I did pay an extra dollar for an extra piece of chicken so it&#8217;s three pieces of chicken.<\/p>\n<h2>Momentarily altering our viewpoint to elucidate this, on the comment board of another video a viewer has simply written \u201cdigestion yeah!<\/h2>\n<p>Here the BBW&#8217;s eating and its pleasures map the space of this video as closed. Yet her simultaneous narration also opens up this savoured moment of ingestion to a listening and viewing Other. This suggests that it may be not so much bodies that are shared or desired in these videos (as they are in pornography, perhaps), but rather the act of eating itself; these spaces invoke a \u201cmimetic desire\u201d (Girard) to be in this food-consuming moment.<\/p>\n<p>In another video a woman talks the viewer through the various flavours of cotton candy in her hand before deciding to try the pink vanilla. After taking <a href=\"https:\/\/hookupdate.net\/cs\/xdating-recenze\/\">xdating rande<\/a> a bite she offers this to the camera, saying, \u201cyou can eat that part [&#8230;] does it melt on your tongue?\u201d Although the sharing of eating is verbally articulated here, there are many other instances in which this is less explicit but also present, as visceral viewing becomes a moment of eating from afar (Lavis). That viewers often leave comments such as \u201cI can taste that burger\u201d suggests that these videos engender \u201cvicarious consumption\u201d (Kirkwood) that may be a form of eating as affective as taking food into the mouth. As such, here we glimpse the multi-directional flows of agency, affect and sociality engendered by eating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In another video, a woman rubs her belly sensuously Reclaiming the ubiquitous imagery of \u201cheadless fatties\u201d (C [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nissin.org\/sunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53283"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nissin.org\/sunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nissin.org\/sunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nissin.org\/sunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nissin.org\/sunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.nissin.org\/sunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53284,"href":"http:\/\/www.nissin.org\/sunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53283\/revisions\/53284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nissin.org\/sunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nissin.org\/sunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nissin.org\/sunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}