Imagine being loved for a quality you don't love about yourself. Imagine growing up in a world where what you think is most beautiful is considered most grotesque. There is a landscape of desire where this all transpires and where these people meet. This is a place where fat is beautiful, powerful, and erotic. It's a place author Dan Oliverio calls the Round World. The Round World is the first book to explore obesity from the perspective of the people who find it erotic and seek fat people as romantic partners. In a personal and conversational style, Oliverio discusses existing prejudices against and medical issues around people of size, obesity, kink, and general fat acceptance. With humor and practicality, The Round World provides a primer on loving yourself as you are—fat or not. Going beyond a discussion of sex and relationships, the book also encompasses what the Round World has to teach even those who don't share a sexual attraction to obesity. By investigating language at the level of words, phrases, and societal dialectics, Oliverio introduces us to what he calls the Taboo Conversation, a way of speaking that alienates human beings from each other whether we're discussing obesity, or race, or gender, or religion, or money, or any taboo topic.