Body worship
Body worship ( engl. Worship of the body ) is a generic term for sexual practices in which individual parts of the body are revered. These practices occur predominantly in the BDSM area and in the context of sexual fetishism . But since it is obvious to have an erotic interest in intimate body regions, neither a fetishism nor a submissive inclination has to be present.
Typical forms are the ass (English buttocks ), cock (English penis ), slit (English sheath ), foot (English foot ) and muscle (English muscle ) worship. English terms are used almost exclusively within the scene.
Variants of body worship
Basically, worshiping is a voluntary humiliation of the passive partner, the worshiper ( bottom ). This practice is usually accompanied by other deliberately humiliating ritual acts, such as kneeling down . The bottom is usually allowed to lick and / or kiss the part of the body being worshiped, but not touch it in a conventional way. The worship is an act of submission; The bottom experiences an erotic stimulation, but the satisfaction and well-being of the active partner, also worshipee ( top ), is in the foreground. It is also possible that the bottom practices worship because he finds this part of the body erotic or wants to devote himself to his top.
The top behaves rather passively and distantly during the actual homage, even if he has requested the worship verbally or through chastisement beforehand . Due to the rather demanding approach of the top, practices such as facesitting and smothering differ significantly from the other types of body worshiping.
Muscle worship
The worshiper experiences sexual arousal while looking at or touching the worshipee's muscles. The top is almost always very well trained, for example a bodybuilder . The bottom is usually rather slim, slim, overweight, smaller or otherwise not “in shape” compared to the top. The sexual orientation of those involved is not important, but Niall Richardson describes that the reversal of the stereotypical role of “strong, dominant man - weak, submissive woman” is an essential component, especially in the heterosexual worship of muscular women . The degree and type of use of force or the design of the dominant role depends on the needs of the people involved. Often the top uses his physical superiority to make the bottom aware of his inferiority by physically overpowering him and forcing him to verbally admire his muscles.
Hustling , which is also widespread in the scene, i.e. the sale of sexual services by a bodybuilder, and sponsorship are differentiated from muscle worship . The latter describes a relationship in which, for example, a man is aroused by helping a woman build muscle and sculpting her body according to his imagination. This variant is described, among other things, in the novel Chemical Pink by Kati Arnoldi.
Artist's impression
The Roman Mosaico Dieci Ragazze in the Villa Romana del Casale , Sicily already shows images of muscular women. Franz Kafka describes the practice of lift & carry in his novel America . For some artists interested in BDSM, body worship, often in connection with femdom, is a common motif. One of the most important representatives of these representations is the Japanese Namio Harukawa , whose main interest is the female buttocks. Even Eric Stanton and Robert Crumb have muscular erotic drawings by pronounced and published dominant women. James Cameron's screenplay for Strange Days explores the theme of reversing the stereotypical role of "strong, dominant man - weak, submissive woman" at length.
See also
- Trichophilia (hair fetishism)
- Foot fetishism
literature
- Niall Richardson: Transgressive Bodies: Representations in Film and Popular Culture. Ashgate Publishing, 2010, ISBN 978-0-7546-7622-5 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Thomas Edward Murray, Thomas R. Murrell: The language of sadomasochism: a glossary and linguistic analysis. ABC-CLIO, 1989, ISBN 0-313-26481-3 , p. 42.
- ^ Niall Richardson: Transgressive Bodies: Representations in Film and Popular Culture. Ashgate Publishing, 2010, ISBN 978-0-7546-7622-5 , pp. 61-63.
- ^ Alan M. Klein: Little big men: bodybuilding subculture and gender construction. Suny Press, 1993, ISBN 0-7914-1559-7 , p. 155.
- ^ Niall Richardson: Transgressive Bodies: Representations in Film and Popular Culture. Ashgate Publishing, 2010, ISBN 978-0-7546-7622-5 , p. 63.
- ^ Kati Arnoldi: Chemical Pink. Forge Books, 2002, ISBN 0-312-87891-5 .