Bursting World Building

Bursting World Brainstorm:

Normal arousal causes small bits of inflation. Even just having sex or masturbation causes a sort of...... hyperventilation or gasping that bloats up the body. Staying to the stomach and maybe some breast.

Men are programmed to find teh growth arousing. Women do too, but not as much.
There is a brain chemical that causes greater arousal and happiness seeing or experiencing inflation.

That special breathing in, is a form of erotic meditation. And can be done just by breathing properly, and some explicitly do it to make sex better. To get bigger during sex and so it feels better.

In ancient times this was used to make sex more appealing, sort of like a woman's peacocking. If she could inflate bigger, she'd get more of a man's attention
Because of the brain chemicals that makes people love inflation and the round shape- the women that could inflate the biggest got the most sexual attention. Eventually leading to them being the most likely to get pregnant.
Given women explode to give birth, and have more babies in relation to how big they can get. This only encouraged inflation to sustain communities.
So, mediation inflation became a religious experience due to positive association, being a learned skill, and causing erotic, peaceful, and other such feelings.

Women inflate with amniotic fluid and babies during pregnancy, reaching their maximum possible size (for people who don't inflate that's about their height) and explode. In the course of about a year, maybe a year and a half?
Exploding to give birth, means that popping (death) is associated with giving life. A woman has to explode to have children.
Because this was the ONLY way children are born, it means that exploding is seen as a good thing.
Because getting pregnant took LOOOOOTS of sex, it was rare, and thus especially a blessing.
Positive association with pregnancy bursting made popping a “good” thing.
Because of the brain chemicals, a total sphere of a woman was the sexiest thing ever. Made men unbelievably horny, happy, and made women envious.
Because of the brain chemicals, and popping to give birth, and being a total sphere right before explosion- bursting was the “climax” of inflation. Some men and women explicitly got more brain chemical seeings omeone explode.

Lots of diseases and allergic reactions cause inflation to exploding.
“Cold” a sort of lung thingy that causes constant sneezinga nd a rapid inhalation, leading to a fast explosion in the first day if it doesn't stop.
“Hiccups” a slower more stomach related constant hiccup. Slooooowly inflating someone over days if it can't be cured.
Various allergens. Like blueberries. Cause rapid production of some kind of fluid- juice, cum, watery mucus, etc – to bursting. In some cases minutes, in some cases days
Spontaneous False Pregnancy- a sudden slow swelling of fluid. Almost reminiscent of pregnancy, over the course of a few months, years, person swells up and eventually explodes.

Because of these diseases and allergies, causes of sudden inflation to bursting were common and seemingly random. Because of the positive association with bursting, society didn't know how to feel about it. Especially cause some allergens like blueberries were so delicious, they were almost drug-like to men and women. Seeing continued consumption even given the immense popping risk.
because sudden inflation could happen at any time. And pregnancy bursting hormones made it a good thing. Death by popping wasn't seen as bad.
Due to inflation meditation, pregnancy, and brain chemicals- bursting came to be associated with dying the “right way”
Dying the “right way” meant that women ideally exploded to pass on. Other kinds of death were seen as bad.
This possibly lead to inflation harakiri thingies- if someone was ill, starving, or real;ly hurt- maybe they'd inflate and explode themselves.
This led to the idea of popping for honour or eligious reasons.

Pop of honour. Because inflating to exploding, even by accident was a good thing. This led to the idea of exploding one's self willingly was the best thing. Inflation meditation developed a side philosophy of inflation one's self until they exploded. All through breathing. Given this could be hard- it became an even-t something you did in front of others. And seen as the ultimate way to pass on besides pregnancy.
It became the “end goal” for the majority of society. To practice inflation so one day they could pop themselves just by breathing.
At first, it was to explode to die instead of any other way. Back then, it was mostly to avoid old age, (which was still young- the only frame of reference was the few old women and men) So then women would purposefuly burst themselves before they wre twenty-twentyfive-thirty if they could
And again- positive association- led to “if someone pops today, it's a good sign” and so popping, especially intentional pops of honour- meant good luck.
As inflating became so common- and still the biggest inflators got the most male attention- pregnancies got bigger too. So, a signle pregnancy could give more babies (most of them girls) than a community could do with. This meant population boom, which then again encouraged more popping.

Popping to control population. Because pregnancies could get so huge, dozens, hundreds, of babies born in a single moment. And because popping was a good way to go, and because people were TRYING to pop themselves to go honourably. People popping, by pregnancy, accident, or intentionally- almost became the norm. Soon, people came up with excuses to pop. Spreading the “Pop of Honour” to things other than old age.
Popping for weddings of loved ones becamea thing. If someone popped it'd be good luck.
“Weddings” are both man and woman for trying to have a baby, and a couple (or more) women joining together to raise children. Maybe? Dunno
Children “growing up” became a reason to pop. Coming of age (teenager?) or finishing training/education, or even first being able to inflate.
Feasts, holidays, and new years became reasons. If someone popped- it was good luck or fortune.
As popping was a good thing- people did it for lots of reasons- it changed religion.

Popping in Religion. Popping was a good thing, pregnancy, pop of honour, even accidental- so naturally, if you popped you got a better afterlife. With people who pop by pregnancy at the top, people who pop of honour next, then accidental poppings. Being popped by another person intentionally would come after that when it became a thing. And because the sun and moon were round. In many cultures- they became Goddesses. The eternally round sun, the cycling inflating then deflating moon. And eventually the earth itself. All spherical goddesses. There are lots of different ones of course, but that's the gist.

Popping someone else intentionally- A combative version of inflation became a thing. Using inflation meditation to not only inflate one's self- but to expel that air into someone else. The “inflation kiss” became a thing. Popping up for many different reasons.
“Dance” a sort of stage performance in which the dancers or performers inflate one another. Accidental or intentional popping lead to
Gladiator- inflation martial arts, as a form of sport or performance. As exhaling forced in air was harder than expelling intentionall breathed in air. Inflation either to immobility or popping became the competition.
This developed several inflation soprts and martial arts. Including moving while inflated, breathing techniques to expel as much air as possible, various grapples to force someone into an inflation kiss. (doesn't have to be on the mouth- anus, vagina, belly button, and nipples work too)
When popping someone by inflating them became a combat thing,i t became “respectful” to kill an enemy by popping them. Killing someone any other way in combat was seen as being “needlessly hateful”
Popping murders became a thing too- because inflation to popping was a good thing. If there was no evidence other than an exploded person who was alone. People assumed they popped themselves either cause of a disease, or pop of honour alone. Strange but not weird. And if twas ruled to be foul play, it was met with the same “ah well” But, if the perpetrator was caught, it was eventualy deemed “fiar” to pop them too
Men could not inflate women as fast, because they couldn ot inflate their lungs- but it became a romantic thing. And a way some popping fetishists could pop their sex partners- willingly or not. It even became a ritual for “breeding marriages” for a man to try to pop his bride by breathing into her a number of times, Usually 10.

The Intrusive Air Revolution- things like bellows, hoses, pumps, and eventually compressed air tanks revolutionized inflation. For all reasons- pleasure, performance, sport, pops of honour, sex, combat. It became so easy for people to inflate tehmselves and each other. So now there is no excuse for women “not” to inflate. Before the Intrusive Air Revolution- not everyone had the time, energy, or skill to excel at inflation. The revolution allowed anyone to inflate, and anyone to becomes pherical, and anyone to even pop themselves. Some people still hold being able to pop yourself through your own personal effort- is the “True” pop of honour. And- intrusive inflation meant that pregnancies could become huger than ever before. As machine inflation would lead to greater sizest han ever before, it taking less time and effort to reach max size, meaning greater growth, meaning bigger sizes. The discovery of things like helium- also changed the types of infaltion one could do- such as basic flight.