Catfight

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Bettie Page fighting another woman, Irving Klaw (1950s)
Two women in a wrestling match

The term catfight comes from the Anglo-American language area and is the name for a dispute between women . The confrontation can be carried out physically as well as verbally, whereby actions such as scratching, biting and hair-pulling, which are generally regarded as typical for women, can also be used in the physical confrontation. The opponents resort to both fair and unfair means (in verbal form e.g. intrigue ). It can be about men, a certain position of power or specific female rivalries.

history

The term catfight first appeared in 1824 in the title of a poem by Ebenezer Mack The Cat-Fight a Mock Heroic Poem . In 1919 Catfight was added to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary .

Entertainment area

The subject was taken up in films as early as the 1930s. E.g. in The Great Bluff between Marlene Dietrich and Una Merkel . In the 1970s there was a real boom in film catfights due to the blaxploitation films with their style icon Pam Grier , roller derbies and various women's prison films. In the storylines of professional wrestling , catfights of the actors have been an established part of the show for several years. Catfights in movies and cartoons often end with the loss of clothing. There is also mud and oil catching as an erotic form of entertainment at events such as B. in discos or at biker meetings . As a prime example of catfights in the entertainment arena, a number of TV commercials by the US brewery Miller from 2002 can be considered. The two models Kitana Baker and Tanya Ballinger achieved widespread fame as Miller Lite Catfight Girls . In addition, they had a joint appearance with Stacy Keibler and Torrie Wilson in 2003 at WWE WrestleMania XIX.

  • Kitana Baker

  • Tanya Ballinger

eroticism

Catfight is also the collective term for a fetish-like tendency , which has its erotic attraction in the sporty as well as played power comparison between women. This tendency is primarily voyeuristic and mostly affects wrestling , arm wrestling and boxing .

Homosexual and bisexual women sometimes also use the wrestling match as a means of physical contact, since it offers itself almost as an opportunity for a pleasurable encounter with other women. This aspect is supported by the fact that very intimate wrestling matches sometimes lead to orgasmic entanglements and open tribady . In an interview, two German wrestlers confirmed the assumption that there are moments of excitement during a fight. Even if no "sex fight" is sought, mutual orgasms can occur. In some cases sexual arousal and climax are the stated goals of a female wrestling match. As a rule of such Sexkampfes ( engl. Sexfight) usually applies: first come to orgasm, lost. Nonetheless, multiple orgasms are possible in a clitoridally stimulated woman. An orgasm can be achieved again with the next opponent, even in the same fight. Tribadic scenes and erotic fights cannot therefore always be distinguished. So-called pussy , sex or trib fights form separate categories under commercially produced videos.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "A mock heroic Poem" Google Books (Eng.)
  2. ↑ Merriam-Webster Online catfight
  3. ^ Miller Lite - "Catfight". In: AdForum.com. Retrieved December 5, 2019 .
  4. ^ Full WrestleMania XIX results. In: WWE.com. World Wrestling Entertainment Inc., accessed December 5, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Catfight fans: FAQ (German)
  6. ↑ Werner Sonntag: Kampfes Lust. About the eroticism of body encounters in a duel * Description of a scene * When women fight and men watch: emancipation, stimulation, obsession? Verlag Laufen und Leben, Ostfildern 2002, ISBN 3-9802835-2-6 , p. 221, 274, 383, 384, 386, 618 .

literature

  • Ernst Schertel: Fetish and Fantasy. Eros Publishing, Hamburg 1975, OCLC 499328212 . (It contains a chapter on "Amazonism", a term invented by the author. Probably the first publication on the passion for women's wrestling. Reprint of the original edition, which disappeared in 1933, from which a number of text passages have disappeared, so text was also broken off during reprint)
  • Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Ralf-Rainer Rygulla (eds.): Acid. New American scene. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1983, ISBN 3-499-15260-6 . (In it the confession of the catfight fan E. F. Cherrytree - of literary quality)
  • Werner Sonntag: Fighting lust. About the eroticism of body encounters in a duel * Description of a scene * When women fight and men watch: emancipation, stimulation, obsession? Laufen und Leben Verlag, Ostfildern 2002, ISBN 3-9802835-2-6 . (The standard work on catfight, around 200 partly historical illustrations)
  • Doris Masius: The boxer. Innaron-Verlag, Zurich 1996, ISBN 3-9520850-4-9 . (Novel by an emancipated woman about the private fight scene, bound)