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April Would was first introduced to giantess porn last year. Working as a phone sex operator and audio narrator, she received a custom order for three recordings: "one where I played a very cruel giantess [crushing him at the end], one where I played a very romantic giantess, and one where I could take it in whatever direction I wanted.”

When Would made these first audios, she had no idea how prominent this fantasy was, or that doing these early audios would open the door to providing audio for Virtual Reality giantess porn. That genre of pornography uses camera tricks and green screens to portray larger-than-life women stepping on men, inserting them into their bodies, and threatening to crush people and things.

“[VR] is the perfect medium for giantess fantasies," she says. "Everything is animated in 3D and because it is so immersive, the viewer really does get the feeling that [they are] small and the giantess is very big.”

VR technology, however, is not necessary in order to create the giantess illusion. Phone sex operator and adult model Sammy Rei Schwarz says that it is all about perspective.

“I place the camera at a very low or close perspective, making myself seem as massive or as tall as I want. It is amazing what can be done just by playing around with camera angles.” She adds, “It can also be fun to take shots of myself holding a small figure to represent the man.”

In perhaps the lowest-fi iteration of this fantasy, aural smut recording artist Muse uses hypnosis to make her customers feel as if they are small. She started her career as a clinician using hypnosis to help folks quit smoking, but realized that there were more lucrative and creative uses for her skills. “I can make men feel as tiny as I want them to,” she says.

Muse’s hypnosis customers often request that she use their small bodies in very specific ways, like the time someone asked her to use him as a toothbrush. She says, “I had to ask him if he wanted to be held like a toothbrush or if he wanted to walk around in my mouth.”

While giantess customers often ask for specific things, Schwarz says that the fantasies themselves tend to fall into three broad patterns: “In the first, the woman is simply a giant, larger than all other humans. In the second, the woman is normal-sized human, but uses a drug or magic to shrink the man, making him so small that she becomes a giant. In the third, the woman is normal-sized, but uses a drug or magic to grow into a giant.”

Fetish model Lux Lives says, “I think there are a few core dynamics in giantess [porn] that draw people in — powerlessness, insignificance, and subversion of social taboos surrounding gender and size.”

Why people are aroused by giant women is perhaps a topic for another column. But we certainly shouldn’t assume that those who have this fetish actually want to be swallowed whole, or crushed, or used as a dildo. Instead, we should consider that some fantasy is meant to remain fantasy, as play. In Schwarz’s words, “Since it’s purely fantastical, it really stimulates creativity and makes the femdom experience larger than life (pun intended)."