The “2 Girls, 1 Cup” Phenomenon
Usually the modus operandi here is to take a news story about sexual perversion and work from that. But aside from the Smoking Gun, which outed the director of the now infamous video, there really haven’t been any news stories about the “2 Girls, 1 Cup” phenomenon. It’s too bad, because there is definitely a fascinating story here — a story not about scat porn, since pornography featuring people eating shit is nothing new, but about the way in which one particular scat video has taken hold of the public imagination.
If you don’t know what this is all about, you could begin with the video itself. Made by a Brazilian director who avows his own fetishism, the video itself is actually illegal in the United States. For that reason PervScan won’t link to it. But if you know that the name of the video is “2 Girls, 1 Cup,” the url is pretty easy to figure out. It is definitely not safe for work. And be cautious about googling it, because there are sites that host the video but dump malware on Windows users. (Which raises fascinating security implications, as a concerned blogger noted: “I am concerned that… I can’t believe I am writing this… security vendors will be loathe to post warnings regarding malicious versions of the content because the content itself is so wretched.”)
After you’ve endured the video, you might want to begin delving into the really astonishing part of the story: the reaction videos showing people watching “2 Girls, 1 Cup” for the first time. To take a random example, watch these guys watch it. From there you can begin to see the enormous number of similar videos listed in YouTube’s Related Videos. There are men, women, parties, families, even a husband and wife who alternate but thankfully don’t show it to their baby. There is an entire subgenre of videos that capture grandmothers being subjected to “2 Girls, 1 Cup”: the classic one, the 91-year-old one, the grandma who says “It’s not really that bad,” and the one showing two gym rats holding down their young-looking grandmother. When you watch this and some of the “Here’s my mom watching it” videos, you start to think the incest implications are creepier than the scat video could ever be.
Without doubt the funniest reaction video belongs to Kermit the Frog. Jon Lajoie also penned a hilarious love song inspired by the thing. Feel free to sing along with the chorus that runs like this: “Some people like to kiss / Some people like to hug / Some lesbians like eatin’ each other’s shit out of a cup.”
The grassroots popularity of the video — or of the reaction videos — calls to mind the notoriety of the Enumclaw horse sex story, which was even made into a succesful documentary. In each case, an “unspeakable” perversion became something that people couldn’t stop talking about. On one hand, this is astonishing. Just when did bestiality and coprophilia become so acceptable that you can talk about it with your grandmother? On the other hand, perhaps it’s not surprising at all. Both perversions take fundamental human experiences — everyone is an animal and everyone is a shitter — and push them to “inhuman” extremes. Everyone can relate to the preconditions of the perversions, if not the perversions themselves. Everyone is only one short step away from being able to commit these perversions. All it takes is a little perforation of the membrane between your current behavior and your sense of wrong (or “wrong”). Perhaps that is why people laugh so uproariously in spite of the fact that they’re vomiting while watching “2 Girls, 1 Cup”: their laughter says “I’d never do that” and thereby reasserts their normality.
I was at the Zoo in Budapest I think it was and watched a large primate–gorilla–sitting on the perimeter of his enclosure, in defecating position. He reached around as the stool emerged, palmed it, and in one smooth move raised it up to his mouth and devoured it. Can’t have been the first time; the move was polished. My point: maybe this is some primal urge we’ve moved away from but which still resonates strongly. Then again, maybe the food budget at the Budapest Zoo is constrained….
All the great apes mouth their crap. I used to work with an orangutan, this little bastard had the worst breath in the world! He’d pick up his turds and pop them like big m&m’s.
However, ape crap just doesn’t have the yuck factor that human feces do. The apes all eat huge amounts of plant fiber, and the crap, while it stinks to high heaven, just doesn’t induce the puke response in humans the way people crap does, it’s more like big herbivore crap in smell. While I ain’t gonna be eating any cow or horse crap, I can be around it without hurling, unlike any people crap I ever smelled other than my own.
This is one of the fetishes that I just can’t comprehend. It just goes to show that ANYTHING can be sexualized in human beings because of the huge learned component in all human sexuality. If the smell of crap comes to be associated with sexual pleasure, voila!, a fetish!
It’s true, herbivore crap is a lot less disgusting than the crap from animals that are complete carnivores or even omnivores. That’s because there no meat decays or decomposes in their intestines, so the stink is different.
The zoo budget thing was funny, Margaret.
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