Gay shrinking stories, one lost inch at a time

Gradual, sudden, willing or not

Shrinking comes in flavours, and most men know theirs within a page. Gradual shrinking is the slow burn: a sleeve that suddenly hangs loose, a shelf that was never that high, a tape measure that keeps telling the truth. Shrink Files Issue 26: Shrinking on the Job does exactly that to a towering construction worker while his apprentice gains the upper hand. Sudden shrinking is one zap or one pill, and the room is enormous. Fetish Audio 23: Shrink Ray is the shrink ray story in its purest form: a muscular scientist, a new toy, and you as the test subject.

Then there is consent. Some men take the pill knowingly. Some are slipped it. Some sign a contract without reading the small print, which is the funniest place for small print to be. And there is the question of how far: a few humbling inches, doll-size, or a speck on somebody's mousepad. A shrunken man at four foot still has a voice. At four inches, he has a keeper.

Where shrinking meets everything else

A shrunken man rarely stays alone for long. Every lost inch makes somebody else look bigger, so shrinking sits right next to giants and macrophilia and life at the tiny end. Together they make up G/T, the community's shorthand for giant/tiny, and the size difference is the whole point. Add humiliation when the shrinking happens in public, alpha and beta dynamics when the pecking order rewrites itself, and SPH when the shrinking gets very personal indeed.

Where to go next

New to all this? Gay Shrinking Stories: Where to Start is the obvious first stop, and Macrophilia vs Microphilia: What's the Difference? untangles two words that get mixed up constantly. For the slow, thorough version, Shrink Files 54: Shrinking Champ measures, films and shrinks a national bodybuilding champ, inch by humiliating inch. And for the long haul, DIMINISHED by Thomas Grande gives you 60,000 words set in a compound where men shrink and only one will survive.