Although I've been through many transitions that have kept me busy, I still often think of ways to keep my blog fresh. Sometimes, a barrier i think that gets in the way is the assumption that what i write has to have some profound analysis, and if I don't feel i have something to discuss that meets that criteria, i do not write. This overlooks the other reason i wanted to start blogging, and that was for fun. One thing i absolutely enjoy is curating embarrassed naked scenarios from media.
Today I wanted to focus on the shows that planted the seeds for my embarrassment fetish. Of course, it did not start with
the erotic humiliation I've grown to write about. It happened with
the earliest depiction I would have had access to as a kid, cartoons.
The
embarrassed naked genre's roots stem from comedy. I have previously
discussed how comedy gags involving exposure have included skirts blown
up, fur/feathers being shaved, and pants falling down to expose
underwear with a pattern printed over it. Many cartoons have
utilized some form of these tropes for the purpose of amusement.
One early example is the Looney Tunes episode, "Wise Quacking Duck". It was not the first episode i saw depicting
forced exposure, but I think it's one of the best examples from Looney Tunes. I
think much of the comedy in Looney Tunes walked a fine line between
child appropriate humor as well as inserting jokes that were more tongue-in-cheek. I think
pinup/cheesecake style erotic art was popular during that era and
it seemed like animators were willing to take the risk to put it in the
episodes. Many times, it was the villain of the episode who would be
stripped. Elmer Fudd was often pantsed by Bugs Bunny, he was even once
exposed wearing a girdle.
But the episode I
often call back to was the aforementioned episode where Daffy Duck is chased by a hunter. The
first moment he is stripped, he willingly does so, slowly doing a
striptease by undressing out of his feathers as if it were a suit. He
even uses lettuce as feathers to tease his audience. It is when he
raises his arms, his suit falls down and exposes polka dotted boxers. We
see him cover up in embarrassment before running away.
Later on, he is cornered
into a wall, gun against his chest. He begs "Not twice in the same
picture!" and his feathers are blown off, leaving him with his arms
crossed over his body to cover up.
I do recall
feeling a physical excitement anytime I saw this kind of
trope. It happened again watching a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episode where Leonardo cuts
Rock Steady's pants off, exposing his heart-print boxers. I found this
frustrating, because i didn't want to be distracted with the stimulation I felt. Most of the fight scenes in cartoons had a serious tone, so when the humor of a character being humiliated was depicted, my body reacted.
One scene that actually made me hard was when I never expected an embarrassed exposure scene, such as in the cartoon the Adventures of T-Rex. This was a superhero themed tv show where a group of armored dinosaurs fought crime. In the episode, Screwloose, they fight a robber whose named after the episode. In the end, Screwloose manages to loosen the screws to the armor of the team, pantsing all of them. I remember being struck by this scene because at that point, I believed superheroes were never supposed to look bad. Here they were in the street exposed in their boxers, the idealized heroes humbled as they were made to look ridiculous. But that is the point of the humiliation kink.
I
highlight these examples today to highlight how our minds come to resonate with our kinks. As a psychologist I enjoy processing how different
factors can affect us developmentally as we come to understand ourselves
and what we desire. When I was young, I did not know I had a kink for this. I was not sexually active, but the imprint of humiliation with
excitement was there.
This does not mean
that all kinks start from cartoons. What I like is that even as a cis-heterosexual male, I can
find the erotic excitement in seeing male-identified characters being
humiliated. Without these scenes, I'm not sure i would have had the same
connection to the embarrassment kink as I do. In reviewing these cartoons, The Adventures of T Rex has me realizing where my inspiration for Riot may have come from
If
you have an interest in the embarrassed naked genre, where do you
recall your first moment that may have had it click for you? What about
for your other kinks?
I think the next entry will focus on how I first got into the ENF genre.
