“An ex-hairdresser serving eight years in Peterhead Prison for scalping a woman has died… [The perp had enticed the victim] to his home by offering drinks and a free haircut. But once at the bedsit he mutilated her head, leaving her permanently disfigured, and ignored her pleas for him to stop. After 20 minutes she passed out. She escaped from the home by saying she needed to use the bathroom when she woke up. Her severe injuries were noticed by a police officer as she boarded a bus. She needed skin grafts to treat the wounds. Police investigating the attack found Bowie had been jailed for a similar assault in Glasgow 20 years ago… Edinburgh High Court heard Bowie had a fetish for women’s hair — regularly fantasising about it.” — Buchan Observer (UK)

To both men and women hair can have an erotic appeal, and in men in particular this appeal can sometimes harden into a fetish. Moreover, it is not unusual for hair fetishists to become “snippers” or, as Freud called them, coupeurs de nattes — guys who sneak up on women, cut off a lock of hair, and flee with the highly charged object. Just recently there was a guy on a college campus in New England who would break into the rooms of sleeping co-eds, cut off some hair, and then disappear into the night. It’s pretty common.

What is unusual is for the snipping to evolve into scalping. The ex-hairdresser in this case wasn’t content with a mere lock of hair. His fetish couldn’t be satisfied with anything less than the whole scalp! Jokes about scalping indians aside, you have to wonder exactly how this fulfilled his fetish. It is hard to imagine that a guy could retain erotic feelings for — could masturbate to — a human scalp, with blood and shreds of skin and chunks of flesh. It must be relatively horrific to behold (and so too the victim with her skull visible through her ravaged skin). So perhaps it was not the object itself but rather the act of scalping that titillated him. Perhaps hair was not exactly the object of the fetish but rather a means to an end — a violent end.

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