Inside the nerdy and uncomfortable world of wedgie fetishes (2024)

If there’s a thing, there’s probably porn about it.

When said thing involves yanking up someone’s underwear right into their genitals, that makes the transition to porn a little easier. It’s also a natural fit for an underground fetish community.

For most of us, wedgies are the reserve of nerdy childhoods and bullying brothers, intent on causing you pain and embarrassment by pulling your underwear up so it digs right in between your bum cheeks.

But for some, wedgies are a new realm of sexual thrill.

Wedgie fetishes have strong ties to the BDSM community, offering a form of domination over the person getting wedgied. It brings back feelings from teasing and bullying as a child, and wedgie fetish accounts will often involve teen roleplay and requests to be called a ‘nerd’.

For Martin, known as Bullied Nerd or @wedgievictim on his Twitter account dedicated to wedgies, wedgies became sexual when he was in his teens, after years of being bullied when he was much younger.

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His first ever wedgie, he remembers, happened on the playground after school.

‘I was in the after school program and didn’t get picked up until 4.30,’ Martin tells Metro.co.uk. ‘I don’t entirely remember how it started. I just remember these two boys grabbing me and giving me a wedgie.

‘I cried after and told a teacher and they got in trouble.’

Later on Martin experienced more bullying, which he believes formed the sexual pleasure he gets from ritual humiliation from dominant partners.

‘I got bullied a good amount especially in grades 6 and 7,’ he tells us. ‘I think it definitely contributed to my affinity for wedgies and humiliation.

‘I never felt any confidence towards girls because of getting bullied and in the rare occasion I tried to ask a girl out I was always rejected.

‘It’s hard to know what caused me to be me but it seems like I developed an attraction to being humiliated because that’s what happened so often in my formative years.

‘Or maybe I always would have been into kink and it just happened to become wedgie-centric because of my experiences.’

These days, Martin is fully immersed in wedgie fetish culture.

‘For me it’s domination and humiliation,’ he explains. ‘Domination meaning the victim is at the mercy of the wedgie giver, overpowered and unable to stop it except by begging. Humiliation meaning being seen by others, preferably in a public place or being posted online.’

His Twitter is dedicated to sharing videos, pictures, and artwork depicting wedgies. Some clips are from porn actresses, deliberately appealing to the wedgie fetish, while others are innocent clips of wedgies jokingly posted by friends and family, that are now being spread across the internet and sexualised.

There are also clips from amateur fetish stars, who are making names for themselves by asking for ‘wedgie challenges’ on Instagram and Twitter.

These people will ask followers to send in their wedgie requests (some are asked to pay, for others it’s a sexual hobby rather than a side hustle), the more extreme, the better.

A scroll through the hashtags shows requests for highly coveted atomic wedgies – when the under is pulled so far up that it can go over the person’s head – along with orders for people to hang on hooks from their underwear for hours.

There’s high demand for wedgie footage, often custom made for money so the domination will be more personal.

Mainstream porn providers are offering plenty of wedgiecentric options, too, and the amount of people watching these videos shows wedgie fetishes are more than just a tiny niche.

Pornhub tells Metro.co.uk that searches for ‘wedgie’ rose steadily throughout 2016, reaching their highest point in March 2017 before slowing back down again.

Wedgies are most popular with young men (men are 17% more likely than women to search for wedgie content). Pornhub visitors between the ages of 18 to 24 are 208% more likely to search for wedgies compared to all other age groups, and the searches are most common in America, Slovenia, South Africa, Canada, and Croatia.

The most popular wedgie-related searches focus on women being wedgied, often in lesbian set-ups, along with domination and punishment. ‘Girl wedgie’ is the most popular wedgie search, followed by ‘hanging wedgie’, ‘thong wedgie’, and ‘wedgie punishment’.

The most searched wedgie terms on Pornhub:

  • girl wedgie
  • wedgie fetish
  • hanging wedgie
  • thong wedgie
  • wedgie punishment
  • wedgie spanking
  • atomic wedgie
  • wedgie orgasm
  • lesbian wedgie
  • wedgie fight
  • hardcore wedgie
  • wedgie bondage
  • wedgie wrestling
  • wedgie war
  • wedgie domination
  • self wedgie
  • wedgie catfight

It’s clear there’s content for the more casual wedgie enthusiast, but in both mainstream porn and in the depths of Instagram, more extreme wedgies are going down.

Yes, there are the videos of light, teasing wedgies, with one woman playfully pulling up another’s deliberately too big thong. But then there are clips of people violently yanked up by their underwear, left hanging from hooks, and begging to be let down.

The majority of those who identify as having a wedgie fetish also have ties to BDSM, so this makes sense. Pornhub tells us that the most common searches users make before they head to wedgie videos include ‘spanking’, ‘bully’, and ‘bondage’. If you’re into domination, being tied up, and discomfort, wedgies are a natural progression from rope play and role play.

The most common things people search for on Pornhub before they search for wedgie porn:

  • spanking
  • thong
  • bully
  • cameltoe
  • JOI (jerk-off instructions)
  • wrestling
  • catfight
  • lesbian
  • crotch rope
  • diaper
  • spank
  • bbw catfight
  • panties
  • bondage

Cinnamon, in her mid-thirties, regularly gets tagged in wedgie challenges, and has shared plenty of pictures and videos of herself being wedgied for #WedgieWednesday. But she doesn’t have a wedgie-specific fetish. Instead, partaking in wedgies is part of her submissive/dominant relationship with her mistress.

‘I didn’t know there was a specific wedgie community,’ Cinnamon tells us. ‘For me it’s more about pleasing Mistress by doing as she asks.

‘I guess my first wedgie was at some point in school, nothing sexual about it.

‘In a naughty way it was probably only last year I experienced my first one. Mistress decided she wanted my cheeks more exposed, I guess.’

The pleasure Cinnamon gets from being wedgied isn’t down to the wedgie itself, but being submissive and allowing herself to be humiliated.

‘I do get uncomfortable with them,’ she explains. ‘I wouldn’t say it’s a pain as such, I just find it an uncomfortable feeling. Maybe it’s the extra pressure on certain bits.

‘Emotionally it’s more the embarrassment when I have to share the pics. It’s my bottom – having it on show is a little embarrassing.’

One wedgie Instagrammer I spoke to, whose account was removed soon after our chat for sexually explicit content (that’s a common occurence in the wedgie community. It’s hard for accounts to rack up many followers as they’re so quickly caught and reported), gets off on the feeling of wedgies.

‘The fetish came for me at a younger age when I was more experimental,’ they told us. ‘It was more of a childish joke from the giver, but gave me a sense of awkwardness because of how I felt about wedgies.

‘They’re embarrassing, yet getting one touches you in ways that can’t really be replaced. It’s just a feeling you gain, kind of how people don’t like drinking beer right away. It’s acquired.’

The community of wedgie-lovers is fairly close-knit and supportive. The Instagrammer we spoke to said that while some people who message them ‘don’t know when to give up’, the majority are respectful – ‘it’s just the demand for wedgies is way higher than the supply of content’.

Those within the wedgie fetish family simply want to be able to share their fetish on social media platforms, meet other people who share their love for wedgies, and have free rein to do the wedgie challenges that have become a massive part of their usage of social media.

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When Instagram takes down remotely sexual accounts ever other week, that’s tricky. Many wedgie accounts aren’t showing more nudity beyond your standard Kardashian belfie, but the sexual comments and hashtags used to connect with other wedgie lovers often results in a speedy ban.

Most of all, the wedgie fetish community just wants to be left to go ahead and enjoy their wedgies without restriction or judgement, just like any other sexual preference.

‘In high school I started looking at wedgies online and found that there were other people who also liked them, like wedgie message boards,’ says Martin. ‘Then a few years ago I found the twitter wedgie community.

‘I just wish it was more well known and accepted.

‘It’s pretty embarrassing to have a wedgie fetish, or to tell someone you have one because most people don’t even know it exists. And they think it’s weird.’

The Instagrammer we spoke to doesn’t talk about their fetish publicly, instead relying on social media to find like-minded people.

They add: ‘Nobody knows I have the fetish, but ripped underwear and hooks around the place should definitely bring up suspicion.’

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