Chubby Chasers Magazines

Chubby chasers usually refers to the male gay sex industry and chubbies means gay mean who are generally big and heavy with big bellies. This community has, for the most part, insulated themselves from the gay community at large; there are bars, organizations and social events specifically catering to this subculture, and allow for members of the chubby and bear communities to socialize with each other and develop social networks.

In some places there are now even yearly social events, kind of like pagents with titles give to the winners. In the United States, there is an annual national event, Convergence. There is also an annual event in Europe, European Big Men's Convergence. These events are held in different cities each year and are usually hosted by that city's local big men's organization.

Chubby chasers is not just the premise of the gay community and in the UK there are many erotic magazines devoted to women of the fuller figure.

Some further terminology relating to the chubby community includes:

• chubby or chub - a man with a big belly or overweight. Plural is chubbies.

• daddy - an older man, usually with big belly or overweight. Plural is Daddies

• bear - a man with facial hair, typically with a hairy chest and body and a stocky or heavyset build; often older (or older looking) and displaying a masculine appearance and mannerisms

• cub - a young version of a bear

• chubby chaser or chaser - a term that refers to someone, usually a smaller man, who is not a chubby man or bear himself, but is sexually or romantically attracted to them (this term is used in various communities to describe an outsider who has sexual attraction to people within the community)

• chub for chub (also spelled chub4chub) - a chubby who is sexually or romantically attracted to other chubbies

• Girth & Mirth - Many clubs for chubbies and chasers are called Girth & Mirth clubs. (Example: "Girth & Mirth of New York")