loppoio said: Yeah I love guro, even ero-guro. Snuff and blood is a fetish of mine, gore is also something artists can do super creative things with in their art. That's just something I can't understand turning away from and saying "that's gross". Maybe it's gross but this artist put so much time to make this creative pic, turning away because a boy's intestines are falling out as his friend eats them. I don't know. Real gore isn't my thing per se, but guro (which is illustrated) is as great as any art really, and more visceral in many cases. It is just interesting.
Isn't snuff meaning REAL gore/deaths? (pardon my accusation that follows if I'm incorrect on what snuff is) ...... That's where I draw the line on being open minded. It is in no way cool to see someone actually die. I have a friend who watches that stuff because death interests her, but she sure as fuck to my knowledge doesn't get off on it.
I'm personally not in anyway a gore, it took me years to even be able to watch a movie with blood in it (Mulan made me leave the theater for a minute as a child and Brothers Grimm where the kitten dies and the gingerbread man part scarred me for life) but I was able to work my way up and over come some of my fear to watch Sweeney Todd because the story fascinated and was important to me (wrote my college essay on it too).
All that being said, I have a fetish for small amounts of blood, like a cut here or there or a bite with blood in drawings can be intriguing to see. I don't mind it in a sexual context either, but when it goes far enough to hit the appendages coming off or disembowelment, and especially beheading (just here, have all of my nope) it starts hitting that NO territory for me.
Because of my fear, I'm at the same time fascinated by why people like it and why it exists. Considering most humans are terrified of death, there seems to be a ton that love horror, gore, macabre in both drawings, movies, stories and even real stuff (though, I'd honestly stay away from people who either get off to the real thing or try to recreate it in real life, for obvious reasons)
From a psychological standpoint, and as really with any fetish, from liking light biting or leather to liking inflation and scat, it's really about that it's taboo and humans love taboo. I honestly think it's probably healthier to admit a fascination or fetish that could be construed a host of unpleasant ways then hide it. It's part of you and from what I learned in psychology, most if not all fetishes develop in childhood and it's really hard to change them.
One other thing I learned as well is that it's probably all a coping mechanism with your fears. This explains a lot as to why anyone would be into something humans are evolutionarily designed to fear, such as horror, gore and anything disgusting (bugs, scat, guts) I personally don't deal well with my fear and so instead of either being able to shrug it off when seeing it and just putting on a frowny face or even being able to enjoy it for the adrenaline rush, I instead cry and run away. A bit of a personal note here, I also have a mental (illness, disorder, condition, I don't really know what it's classified as) called obsessive thoughts, meaning I get intrusive (unwanted) thoughts some times that usually have to do with me harming others in horrible ways or people including myself being harmed and dying. These terrify me to no end and it's probably another reason I can't deal with gore very well and in my case, it's kinda imperative that I come to terms with it instead of fearing it the way I do. It's probably the reason I'm fascinated and terrified of say surgical or medical pictures/drawings/characters or even find the doctor/hospital thing attractive. I'm terrified of surgery so I develop this weird fascination to it.
I'd like to say to that any thing humans do/like/are fascinated with are probably just a random blip or change in mental wiring meaning, it in no way improves our survival chances and is evolutionarily speaking, completely useless. I honestly don't care, so long as people aren't harming others mentally/physically against their will, it's not anyone's business to judge what people like I think, as hard as it is for me to understand some fetishes (even more then guro, I don't get the inflation or vore fetishes at all.)
Sorry for a lot of jabber on my part. It's both a personal thing and an interesting one for me, so I felt like sharing my views/experiences. |