NYU Fat Admirers Discover America’s Obsession With Fat Porn

We had no clue gender studies survived the millennium:

At 5-foot-3 inches and 430 pounds, Bigcuties.com webmaster Heather Boyle is on a mission: To tell the truth about being fat.

To a group of about 70 students, Boyle openly discussed fat sexuality, the movement behind it and its implications in today’s society.

“We’re somehow social outcasts,” said Boyle, who spoke last night at the Silver Center. “Diets are society’s way of telling you what you should look like, but 64 percent of America is overweight. If we’re the majority, then whey are we being treated like the minority?”

Since she was 18, Boyle has modeled for various magazines and now runs Bigcuties.com, a subscription-based fat porn website, which currently has 16 models that pose both nude and clothed and star in soft core and hard core films.

“Fat sells,” she said, describing the pornography on her website as identical to any other type of porn.

But Boyle’s appearance almost didn’t happen:

Boyle’s own reception at the Silver Center spoke to these concerns about the treatment of overweight people like herself.

Professor Don Kulick, director of NYU’s Center of Gender and Sexuality, said his department was met difficulty when accomodating Boyle for the event. When he asked the Silver Center building maintenance crew to move a couch from the first to the seventh floor so Boyle could sit in that instead of a chair, the building maintenance did not respond.

After Kulick and the center’s administrator, Robert Campbell, appealed numerous times over the course of two weeks, school administrators still denied the request. Their only response was that the couch was too heavy to move, Kulick said.