Monday, March 14, 2016

Why is a cartoonish style sometimes sexy?

Do any of you ever remember watching Saturday morning cartoons as a youth and being erotically thrilled by something that happened? I'm an 80's kid and watch a lot of loony tunes. Bugs would dress up as a lady, and I know that did it for some people. However it's the ones where they where forced to dress a certain way that got me.

I vaguely remember bugs being put in a baby outfit and force fed some gross medicine by a girl. I got excited about that. Or I think at least once he tricked Elmer Fudd into drag.

The Simpsons had an episode of Itchy and Scratchy where Itchy makes a tent out of Scratchy. It's overly gory and voilent as that show tends to be, but the theme of objectification and human (cat) furniture was exciting to me.

Later as an adult I came to love the art style of Whizzer Black who draws cartoonishly, and even today, though I don't do that style very well, and I usually try for as much realism as I'm capable, I still gravitate to the lighthearted cartoon style of many kinky artists.

I've thought a lot about why, and for me at least, I think it allows me to explore some taboos in a way that lets me ignore reality. I can have fun with gender bending topics without it too seriously causing me to think about sexual orientation issues. Or bondage and discipline that might be impossible or seriously injure a person in real life can be explored in a cartonish way without seeming too serious.

Obviously no healthy sane person would really want horrible things to happen to themselves or other people in real life, but I for one think the fantasy is absolutely acceptable as long as the good old mantra of Safe Sane Connecting Adults is rigorously applied to ones real life activities.

Here's an attempt I made at the style I'm referring to.

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