24 Sep 2008

Brandy Juggs and the BBW Mystery

Now, would you regard HER as a real BBW?

As I mentioned in my review of Brandy Juggs, I had recently had a discussion with someone about what constitutes a real BBW. To say that our views differed somewhat was definitely true, but I did make one or two discoveries along the way.

See, I felt that the BBW genre was best summed up by a lady approximately the size of that which headlines Brandy Juggs, with a little bit of leeway heavier or lighter than her. He insisted that they shouldn't be anywhere near this size.

So what IS a BBW? The Wikipedia entry for BBW says that the term applies to plus-size women as coined by Carole Shaw in 1979, and can refer to ladies that weigh anything from slightly overweight to morbidly obese.

But that really is rather a broad range of weights, isn't it? It's worth pointing out that Brandy Juggs is well within this scale. But I've seen quite a few performers listed in BBW niche sites that are certainly not within this range - they are curvy rather than 'slightly overweight'.

Not that I'm criticising it at all because it is a good network, you can see some evidence of this on sites such as Plumper Pass, which really does feature a range of performers and ladies. And ultimately we must remember that everyone has different tastes.

Some people like their ladies to be REALLY big, like Brandy Juggs. Others just like them to be a little bit bigger and have something to hold on to, as it were. As a result, it actually must be a bloody difficult genre to make a site for.

You either go for one end of the scale, and risk getting flak from fans of the other end, or you try to satisfy everyone and get flak from both sides for not focusing on one area or the other nearly consistently enough. At least with a solo site like Brandy Juggs it's pretty obvious what you're getting.

Posted by Steve 10:15:00