Very Sexy Tinkerbell by CreepingNinjas
"It was a girl called Tinker Bell, exquisitely gowned in a skeleton leaf,
cut low and square, through which her figure could be seen to the best advantage.
She was slightly inclined to embonpoint." [1]
I.
An anonymous correspondent emails:
As a member of the SW community, I was intrigued to see you close a recent post featuring the Mothra twins by making reference to your own microphilia. I do hope that, as indicated, you intend to say more on this often overlooked form of love. [2]
So, not wanting to disappoint a reader (since I have so few), here's a post for him [3] and all other members of the shrinking women community ... [4]
II.
Somewhat ironically, it seems that the number of individuals erotically fixated with tiny women and who derive sexual pleasure from fantasies involving such fairy-like figures is increasing in size, just as the number of self-identifying macrophiles begins to shrink. [5]
But then, when one starts to investigate the subject, it soon becomes apparent that microphilia has always been present within mainstream art, literature and film - and that it is not something only found at the kinky margins of society.
In order to demonstrate this, I thought it might be fun to examine the case of Tinker Bell ...
III.
As most readers will know, Tinker Bell is a fictional character from J. M. Barrie's play Peter Pan (1904) and its later novelisation as Peter and Wendy
(1911). She has since established herself as an iconic figure within
the Disney universe - where she is often misclassified as a pixie -
wearing a bright green strapless mini dress in order to best display her hourglass
figure and lovely long limbs.
Although some people like to believe that the original animated version of Tinker Bell was modelled after blonde bombshell Marilyn Monroe, the primary point of reference was actually the dancer and actress Margaret Kerry who, in 1949, was said by Hollywood insiders to have the World's Most Beautiful Legs.
The key point is that, from the first, Tinker Bell was imagined as a sexually alluring woman in miniature; not a pre-pubescent girl. Thus, there's nothing innocent about foul-mouthed, orgy-loving Tinker Bell [6] and nothing criminally deviant about finding her sexy; microphilia is not a form of paedophilia [7].
This perhaps explains her broad and continuing appeal. Not only, for example, does she have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame,
but in 2009 she became the smallest waxwork ever to be made by Madame
Tussauds, measuring just five-and-a-half inches in height.
Arguably, as I said earlier, this illustrates that whilst microphilia
is rooted within the pornographic imagination, it also has a central position within mainstream popular culture and so isn't really a hidden or secret fantasy as some claim; young or old, male or female, queer, kinky or straight, we all love women in miniature (particularly those who, when spanked, sprinkle fairy dust upon our otherwise drab lives).
Notes
[1] J. M. Barrie, Peter and Wendy, (Hodder & Stoughton, 1911), Ch. III, p. 35. This work can be read free online thanks to Project Gutenberg: click here.
[2] The post that my correspondent refers to was published as 'Ravishing a Universe for Love: In Praise of Mothra and the Shobijin' (25 Sept 2022): click here.
[3] Although I'm assuming my kinky correspondent is male, it's important to note that there are female microphiles who might, for example, desire to be miniaturised and then sexually pleasured by a normal-sized partner (which might, I suppose, be just as legitimately discussed in terms of macrophilia).
[4] I'd like to make clear at the outset, however, that I'm not an expert in
this area and do not wish to be seen as a spokesperson for those with a fetishistic penchant for women of a radically reduced stature whom one might literally hold
in the palm of one's hand. The views expressed here are my own and I'm sure some microphiles will object to my focusing on Tinker Bell - a fairy - rather than a real human female in shrunken form - such as Raquel Welch in Fantastic Voyage (dir. Richard Fleischer, 1966); or is Cora Peterson so tiny that even the most devoted or hardcore of microphiles draws the line?
[5] According to Dr Mark Griffith, the go-to academic for information on a wide range of paraphilias, the reason microphilia appears to have increased in popularity over recent years is because of the rise of the internet
and social media:
"Because the paraphilia is almost totally fantasy-based, much
of the material from which microphiles gain their sexual gratification
is placed and distributed online. There is a wide range of microphile
artwork, photographs, and video on the internet. Applications such as
Photoshop are widely used to create collages of fake miniaturized
people."
See the post published on his website entitled 'Shrink rap: A beginner's guide to microphilia' (9 Nov 2012): click here.
[6] Re Tinker Bell's tendency to sprinkle her speech with expletives, see Peter and Wendy, Ch. III, p. 48 in the edition previously cited, where Barrie writes: "Tink was darting
about again, using offensive language". And for the reference to fairy orgies, see Ch. VI, p. 109.
I am grateful to Hannah Lucy, writing on her blog - Hannah Lucy's Literary Adventures
- for reminding me of these lines. See the post
'Tinker Bell's Disturbing Sexuality' (19 November 2017): click here.
As much as I enjoyed this post, however, I couldn't help thinking that Lucy's
conclusion - that Tinker Bell is "essentially a lascivious tart" - is a
bit harsh.
[7] It is always questionable when one paraphilia is reduced to another, or different forms of kink are confused and conflated.
Having said that, Mark Griffith insists that when it comes to microphilia "there are crossovers with other sexually paraphilic behaviours such as
sadism and masochism [...] For
instance, some male microphilic fantasies involve sexual violence
against shrunken women who they hold as a captive and/or prisoner. Here,
the microphiles may also be sexually aroused by the fact that the
shrunken women may be in a distressed psychological state [...] as a result of being
miniaturized". See 'Shrink rap: A beginner's guide to microphilia' (the link to which has previously been given).
Readers might be interested in some of the posts published on Torpedo the Ark discussing macrophilia, i.e., the opposite of microphilia in which the amorous subject derives sexual pleasure from human giants. These posts include: 'In Defence of Giant Lovers' (15 June 2015); 'Bigging Up the Gibson Girl' (23 July 2019); and 'Into the Valley of the Giants' (3 April 2022).
