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The phrase "Big Beautiful Woman" (commonly abbreviated as BBW) is used by its proponents to denote an attractive, self-confident "woman of size". BBWs are also the focus of a subculture with interests centered on the acceptance, support, and admiration of overweight women. Exceptionally large women are called SSBBWs, with the SS standing for "super size". Recently, "Hypersize" has come into use to describe women upward of 500 pounds. The term "BHM," which stands for "big handsome man," is not nearly as prevalent as the term "BBW."
Men who are attracted to BBWs are known to the world at large and the media as "chubby chasers" or "fat admirers" although many men who admire such women do not use either term to describe themselves.
Some of these men are attracted exclusively to BBWs, while others are simply attracted to good-looking women regardless of size. There are also a large number of lesbian women who admire larger women, but the terms "chubby chasers" and "fat admirers" aren't applied to them nearly as commonly as they are to men.
The term BBW spread rapidly via the Internet during the 1990s. A large number of BBW websites are pornographic, and feature women who are barely overweight to those who are hypersize.
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