The “2 Girls, 1 Cup” Phenomenon, Part 2
To be perfectly honest, PervScan’s first post on the subject of the “2 Girls, 1 Cup” Phenomenon failed to hit the nail on the head. The video is comprehensible: anyone who thinks about sexuality, deviance, or pornography has run across coprophilia (sex with excrement) and coprophagia (eating excrement). There is plenty of it in the Marquis de Sade, who actually recommends an ideal diet for those who would have their shit eaten by others. (If memory serves, Sade claims that boiled chicken makes the tastiest poop.) The incomprehensible thing, then, is not the video but the corresponding fad, in which people record their reactions to “2 Girls, 1 Cup” and post the results to YouTube.
These reaction videos call to mind The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. Darwin’s last major work, this book sought to extend the argument for evolution by comparing the expression of emotions in man and animals. It gave precise descriptions of the facial configurations of emotion and complemented these with a suite of images showing faces in states of joy, fear, sadness, wonder, and so on. Two of these images purported to show disgust, about which Darwin wrote:
The most common method of expressing contempt is by movements about the nose, or round the mouth; but the latter movements, when strongly pronounced, indicate disgust. The nose may be slightly turned up, which apparently follows from the turning up of the upper lip; or the movement may be abbreviated into the mere wrinkling of the nose. The nose is often slightly contracted, so as partly to close the passage; and this is commonly accompanied by a slight snort or expiration. All these actions are the same with those which we employ when we perceive an offensive odour, and wish to exclude or expel it. In extreme cases, as Dr. Piderit remarks, we protrude and raise both lips, or the upper lip alone, so as to close the nostrils as by a valve, the nose being thus turned up.
If you watch the “2 Girls, 1 Cup” reaction videos on YouTube, you see people’s faces undergo these contortions and configurations. Invariably faces begin with an expression of curiosity or daring, proceed from there to shock, often to nausea. The one thing you see in the videos that Darwin doesn’t mention in his description of the musculature of disgust is laughter. Sometimes people exhibit annoyance, especially when they’ve been duped into watching “2 Girls, 1 Cup,” but more often than not they alternate between retching and laughing. It’s a hoot, a riot, hey, let’s watch — let’s see if we can withstand watching — these two chicks eat their shit out of a cup, woohoo, barf!
This is the nouveau frisson that drives the “2 Girls, 1 Cup” phenomenon. The creators of the Disgust Scale, which researchers use to measure disgust sensitivity, admit that they “have also noticed, in the course of our own research, that when we ask people ‘do you want to see something disgusting?’ the answer is usually a cautious ‘yes.’” Yes, you want to be disgusted? You want to test yourself against something which is merely disgusting and not genuinely dangerous for you? “2 Girls, 1 Cup” — you want to see it but you don’t want to see it, and in the gap between these two desires there erupts a howling, almost mad laughter. Maybe that’s what explains the enigmatic popularity of the reaction videos: whether you do or don’t want to see the video, you can’t help but envy the wild laughter that explodes in the interval.
‘do you want to see something disgusting?’
That was some fasinating read, ‘Vert! It’s got my mind working over time. Especially as I’ve sinced raised the whole issue of the film(s) elsewhere and watched the ~ written ~ responses of those around me.
I’ve now actually watched ‘Finger’ (Twice! Lol! See that and ye just have to check!) ‘Cup’ won’t work for me, despite getting Flash direct from Adobe. No matter. I got the general idea.
And there I wanted the :sick: Smiley. I had that, more than any other reaction to my own exposure of others to that film. Yet I ended up Crying with laughter as I later discussed it!
As you so astutely recognise; ” the wild laughter that explodes in the interval. ” But *Why* do we laugh so much at that which ‘Disgusts’ us to the core?
I’ll be trying to tease some sort of straw poll answer from my own circle of forum members.
Mheanwhile; I’m basicly british. We crack jokes – and laugh – about some of the most depressive and disturbing things. Usually within hours of learning of an event which doesn’t directly threaten us. We’re probably known for it? I don’t know.
But who hasn’t been in a damn scarey, ‘close call’ situation …. then laughed like a drain once we’ve escaped it?
Bringing strands of that above mentioned read together with ye own ruminations; Just why Is it we laugh so much at that which we feel would surely destroy us?
Shit; That sure is food for thought!
Food for thought, hahahahahahahah!
Golden Showers I can handle. Shit-eating is a bit out of my range.
I just watched the 2girls1finger video ‘recommended’ in Husk’s comment, and I am astonished that most people seem to find it more disgusting than 2girls1cup. Whatever.
The new popular kink seems to be masochistic voyeurism, and to blame others for it.
I agree with Krovas. Shit eating, even though I didn’t see it, would probably be a bit out of my range as well… I would be more into golden showers. Pee in golden showers: You don’t drink it, as opposed to the shit you eat in those shit eating videos, and pee comes from the genital area as opposed to fecal material, so there is a much stronger component of eroticism for me in it than shit eating, or shit in general, plus it doesn’t smell as bad. I would rather have a golden shower happening to me (pisssssss), than be witness to someone eating their shit.
I can handle seeing piss and shit eating, but vomiting is where I draw the line.
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