You've probably read E. F. Cherrytree's landmark essay, "Hello, Out There." (And if you haven't, it's posted here.) And Johnny Ringo's essay on his Catfight Report blog. (It's right here.)
Those are both great essays, but I was looking for professional, expert opinions. People who had done surveys, or had stuck electrodes on catfight fans while they watched tapes of Goldie Blair and Tylene Buck working each other over.
I Googled everything I could think of.
I Googled "catfight fetish".
I Googled "catfight" and "psychology".
I Googled "catfight" and "dissertation".
I even Googled "catfight" and "DSM-IV".
And I don't know any more now than I did before.
But there was interesting item on Friday's io9 science fiction blog entitled "Do you really have a sexual fetish?" There's nothing about catfighting specifically in this article, but it provides an interesting overview of where current professional thought is on the subject of sexual fetishes.
Still, the early work of Hirschfeld and Kinsey has accomplished one thing, especially in the age of the internet. Sexual fetishes are, as Stekel said almost a century ago, "normal." Instead of medical tomes with pathologizing titles, today we have self-help books devoted to finding your kink, and enjoying your (safe, consensual) fetishes. You can shop for sex toys at boutiques, and learn about erotic role playing from famous bloggers.I hope to provide links (when I find them) to other articles that might help us understand why we're turned on by catfights.
A quick sample of the universal appeal of catfights across all cultures can be found by just looking at the sheer number of female on female combat clips found on youtube where one can find catfights from Hollywood to Bollywood including the famous catfight in Destry Rides again that dates back to the 1930's to movies made today by amuter filemakers and posted right to the internet. The films made in India may not be in English but the attraction of female combat has no internationl or even time boundtries (In fact one of Thomas Edison's first movies ever made is two sisters boxing)
ReplyDeleteYour thinking too much Beest, if it works for you enjoy it. Think about this...A woman is most flattered when two men are fighting over her, why wouldn't a man be aroused with two women fighting over him. Well, that works for me at least.:)
ReplyDeleteJust like art styles, there are so many different reasons. I don't think you can box it up with reason. Also to add to Fett33...the Asians, Japan and China feature really good catfights from even the early 50s. Hideo Gosha made one of the best catfights in movies ever in my opinion.
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