Rule 34 Incarnate
April 19, 2010 1:51 PM Subscribe
I heard that Quentin Tarantino was planning a 3-hour epic about this.
posted by elgilito at 2:01 PM on April 19, 2010
posted by elgilito at 2:01 PM on April 19, 2010
That's actually pretty tame compared to the pedal porn I watched a couple months ago.
posted by mannequito at 2:06 PM on April 19, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by mannequito at 2:06 PM on April 19, 2010 [1 favorite]
BP, I think you mean erotic auto asphyxiation.
posted by GuyZero at 2:11 PM on April 19, 2010 [3 favorites]
posted by GuyZero at 2:11 PM on April 19, 2010 [3 favorites]
> That's actually pretty tame compared to the pedal porn I watched a couple months ago
See, the FPP had an NSFW warning on it, and it was completely tame. Yours has nudity and snippets of explicit sex. Oh, and the video on the blog is hosted on pornhub.
posted by Decimask at 2:19 PM on April 19, 2010
See, the FPP had an NSFW warning on it, and it was completely tame. Yours has nudity and snippets of explicit sex. Oh, and the video on the blog is hosted on pornhub.
posted by Decimask at 2:19 PM on April 19, 2010
Other peoples' fetishes always look kind of sad and dull. Not like my fetishes, which are shiny and exciting!
posted by ook at 2:25 PM on April 19, 2010 [8 favorites]
posted by ook at 2:25 PM on April 19, 2010 [8 favorites]
The automobile is one of the symbols of power in society. The person who drives the automobile, therefore, is a powerful person. Having an attractive woman driving the car -- putting her foot on the pedal -- is very symbolic of an attractive woman having power and being in control. It also is related to the foot fetish, obviously. It is about desiring to be controlled by an attractive woman. What greater power could someone have over you than if you are beneath them and serve at or under their feet? That is what the pedal pushing fetish is about. It is about symbolic power. You will find that the men who are into this are going to almost across the board be very submissive.
posted by flarbuse at 2:31 PM on April 19, 2010
posted by flarbuse at 2:31 PM on April 19, 2010
I remember the first time I saw this as a category on one of the sites I visited, I thought... weird!
Then I saw an insect-crushing fetish. weirder yet.
Then I saw genki-genki.com
Do NOT go there. It's pretty much real live tentacle porn. And more.
posted by symbioid at 2:34 PM on April 19, 2010 [1 favorite]
Then I saw an insect-crushing fetish. weirder yet.
Then I saw genki-genki.com
Do NOT go there. It's pretty much real live tentacle porn. And more.
posted by symbioid at 2:34 PM on April 19, 2010 [1 favorite]
which are shiny and exciting!
Warm ....leatherette
posted by The Whelk at 2:35 PM on April 19, 2010 [1 favorite]
Warm ....leatherette
posted by The Whelk at 2:35 PM on April 19, 2010 [1 favorite]
Somehow or other (I honestly have no recollection) I stumbled across carstuckgirls back in college. I couldn't figure it out. It looked like a porn site. I looked at some of the pictures: not porn. I was confused. I watched some of the videos. They were edited like porn, with long, slow, erotic zooms on mud-covered feet fruitlessly pumping a gas pedal. But there was no nudity, no sex. For the life of me I couldn't figure out what it was. I tried to describe it to other people, and mostly what I got back was a sort of 'Yeah, right, why do you look at weird porn?' response. All of this was years ago.
The other day, when that post went up on The Awl, I felt, oddly, the largest sense of validation I've ever experienced.
posted by shakespeherian at 2:54 PM on April 19, 2010 [5 favorites]
The other day, when that post went up on The Awl, I felt, oddly, the largest sense of validation I've ever experienced.
posted by shakespeherian at 2:54 PM on April 19, 2010 [5 favorites]
Yep, that pedal pumping stuff is fascinating. I've actually made and sold a few of these kinds of videos (with my bf's help). It was fun and hilarious! Some of the fan mail I got was priceless. Many foot fetishists, I've noticed, seem to require a high degree of specificity in order for their fantasies to be satisfied. A lot of people get lumped together as foot fetishists, but they're a fairly diverse group. I felt like I'd have to make a personalized video for each viewer--much more so than with other kinds of fetishes. Pedal pumping is absurdly easy, though, and if people are getting off to it, well, that's swell.
The fetish I find even stranger is the "OMG her break lines have been cut!"thing. The only thing I can think of is that they must love the furious break pedal pushing the woman does as she realizes her brakes have failed.
posted by apis mellifera at 2:56 PM on April 19, 2010 [2 favorites]
The fetish I find even stranger is the "OMG her break lines have been cut!"thing. The only thing I can think of is that they must love the furious break pedal pushing the woman does as she realizes her brakes have failed.
posted by apis mellifera at 2:56 PM on April 19, 2010 [2 favorites]
Suddenly I feel almost normal.
This reminds me of the scene right before the car crash in Vanilla Sky.
posted by localroger at 3:00 PM on April 19, 2010
This reminds me of the scene right before the car crash in Vanilla Sky.
posted by localroger at 3:00 PM on April 19, 2010
Okay, so I misspelled "brakes" a number of times. Feh.
posted by apis mellifera at 3:01 PM on April 19, 2010
posted by apis mellifera at 3:01 PM on April 19, 2010
, I've noticed, seem to require a high degree of specificity in order for their fantasies to be satisfied.
There was an article on ...I wanna say nerve a while back about how a new female editor at "Hustler's Leg World Magazine" turned the publication around by polling the men and finding out what *exact* position, clothing, lighting, whatever, was getting them excited and then carefully composing the photographs around them down to exact angle of the arch or something. I'm trying to find it but goggling "magazine, hustler, editor, leg world" is returning lots of things you'd expect.
posted by The Whelk at 3:05 PM on April 19, 2010
There was an article on ...I wanna say nerve a while back about how a new female editor at "Hustler's Leg World Magazine" turned the publication around by polling the men and finding out what *exact* position, clothing, lighting, whatever, was getting them excited and then carefully composing the photographs around them down to exact angle of the arch or something. I'm trying to find it but goggling "magazine, hustler, editor, leg world" is returning lots of things you'd expect.
posted by The Whelk at 3:05 PM on April 19, 2010
Many foot fetishists, I've noticed, seem to require a high degree of specificity in order for their fantasies to be satisfied.
Really? To a greater extent than other fetishes? Why do you think that is?
posted by zarq at 3:16 PM on April 19, 2010
Really? To a greater extent than other fetishes? Why do you think that is?
posted by zarq at 3:16 PM on April 19, 2010
This sexual fetish is only slightly "weird." Foot fetishists are probably the largest group of sexual fetishists, and America has a huge car culture. You'll likely find as many or more videos of women stimulating men's genitalia with their feet. The car pedal is just another displacement.
Hardly rule 34. Rule 34 would be something like ... the hard, flat gum you used to get in baseball cards. Or dry-erase markers.
posted by mrgrimm at 3:22 PM on April 19, 2010 [1 favorite]
Hardly rule 34. Rule 34 would be something like ... the hard, flat gum you used to get in baseball cards. Or dry-erase markers.
posted by mrgrimm at 3:22 PM on April 19, 2010 [1 favorite]
symbioid : Do NOT go there. It's pretty much real live tentacle porn. And more.
I've always been vaguely proud of the fact I'm fairly unshockable when it comes to porn.
That's now in the past tense...
posted by sodium lights the horizon at 3:28 PM on April 19, 2010
I've always been vaguely proud of the fact I'm fairly unshockable when it comes to porn.
That's now in the past tense...
posted by sodium lights the horizon at 3:28 PM on April 19, 2010
mrgrimm : Or dry-erase markers
There's a lass I used to work with who used to get bored at work. The rest of this story could probably be replaced with "one time, at band camp"...
posted by sodium lights the horizon at 3:30 PM on April 19, 2010 [2 favorites]
There's a lass I used to work with who used to get bored at work. The rest of this story could probably be replaced with "one time, at band camp"...
posted by sodium lights the horizon at 3:30 PM on April 19, 2010 [2 favorites]
Thanks symbioid. I see what you did there. And I saw what they did there.
posted by Xoebe at 3:38 PM on April 19, 2010
posted by Xoebe at 3:38 PM on April 19, 2010
Surprisingly few car/ sex puns in these comments.
I'm gonna fuck you with my red hot car?
posted by ennui.bz at 4:24 PM on April 19, 2010
I'm gonna fuck you with my red hot car?
posted by ennui.bz at 4:24 PM on April 19, 2010
You will find that the men who are into this are going to almost across the board be very submissive.
You have the power dynamic exactly backwards here. The woman in these videos isn't driving the car, she's unable to start the car -- she's helpless, stuck, a little bit desperate, in need of (presumably male) help.
I'm honestly finding the fact that these exist fascinating. There are all these ingredients I can point to and recognize why they could be sexy -- cars, feet, woman in distress, all the pumping and thrusting, etc etc -- but when you put them all together it's about as sexy as waiting in line at the DMV.
Which, presumably, is also someone's fetish.
Humans are strange beasts.
posted by ook at 4:49 PM on April 19, 2010
You have the power dynamic exactly backwards here. The woman in these videos isn't driving the car, she's unable to start the car -- she's helpless, stuck, a little bit desperate, in need of (presumably male) help.
I'm honestly finding the fact that these exist fascinating. There are all these ingredients I can point to and recognize why they could be sexy -- cars, feet, woman in distress, all the pumping and thrusting, etc etc -- but when you put them all together it's about as sexy as waiting in line at the DMV.
Which, presumably, is also someone's fetish.
Humans are strange beasts.
posted by ook at 4:49 PM on April 19, 2010
ook, I think you're missing something here which I can attest to from more the S&M side of things: A lot of people who are into dominance and submission aren't all that concerned with whether on top or bottom as long as the power imbalance exists. Most surveys of fetish groups seem to suggest that people overall prefer to be submissive (after all it's the dominant partner who has all the responsibility and does all the work).
I think what's happening here is that you've got the li'l lady stomping her pretty foot of oppression on the pedal of the big hulking manly but submissive driving machine and it's balking her. And here comes the fetishist in his fantasy to put the li'l lady right with her beast. He's identifying with the car as her servant and as her powerful car-fu rescuer at the same time, which is a pretty cool hack.
posted by localroger at 5:05 PM on April 19, 2010 [2 favorites]
I think what's happening here is that you've got the li'l lady stomping her pretty foot of oppression on the pedal of the big hulking manly but submissive driving machine and it's balking her. And here comes the fetishist in his fantasy to put the li'l lady right with her beast. He's identifying with the car as her servant and as her powerful car-fu rescuer at the same time, which is a pretty cool hack.
posted by localroger at 5:05 PM on April 19, 2010 [2 favorites]
Also, I find it interesting that in most of the videos, the cars remain stuck, unable to “perform.” Erectile dysfunction anyone? The whole scenario could be interpreted as a metaphor for a man’s feelings of inadequacy.
Alternative explanation: The woman is unsatisified by the car, but then the Hero (i.e. the watcher) comes along.
posted by DU at 6:27 PM on April 19, 2010
Alternative explanation: The woman is unsatisified by the car, but then the Hero (i.e. the watcher) comes along.
posted by DU at 6:27 PM on April 19, 2010
Admittedly I'm not an expert at stuck car fetishes, but why don't they have the girl rapidly yanking the shift lever from forward to reverse to rock the car out of it's stuck position?
posted by digsrus at 7:34 PM on April 19, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by digsrus at 7:34 PM on April 19, 2010 [1 favorite]
Yeah, that genki-genki thing is far far more disturbing than lemonparty et. al.
All I registered in the brief glance I could stomach were Graphic close-ups of bugs, worms, snakes and dead fish put places they shouldn't be. How that would arouse anyone I have no idea.
posted by Antidisestablishmentarianist at 11:11 PM on April 19, 2010
All I registered in the brief glance I could stomach were Graphic close-ups of bugs, worms, snakes and dead fish put places they shouldn't be. How that would arouse anyone I have no idea.
posted by Antidisestablishmentarianist at 11:11 PM on April 19, 2010
Many foot fetishists, I've noticed, seem to require a high degree of specificity in order for their fantasies to be satisfied.
Really? To a greater extent than other fetishes? Why do you think that is?
posted by zarq at 3:16 PM on April 19 [+] [!]
That's a very interesting question.
All my evidence is, naturally, anecdotal. I'm pretty much an amateur in the world of fetish porn. It's something I started doing just for fun with my bf. In case you didn't know there are guys out there who really like being kicked, kneed, punched in the groin. (Or at least they like watching it happen to some other poor fellow on the internets.) Now these guys do have specific requests--hell, many of us have that one dirty little thing we need to see/think/hear to push us over the edge. However, in my experience, guys who want to be "beat up", humiliated or kicked in the junk by pretty girls have more generally similar fantasies than guys who are more exclusively into feet.
We decided to start doing foot fetish stuff, in addition, because it seemed an incredibly easy way to make extra cash at first. I mean, dudes worshiping my feet. How hard could that be?
Then the foot fetishists started writing in with their many varied and amazingly detailed requests. Requests like: Could you please crush Oreo cookies (they have to be Oreos, not Hydrox--I can tell!) with your feet, then shove your bf's face in the cookie dust, stepping on his face with your feet (PLEASE wear polka dot socks!!) and PLEASE say, "I'm crushing these Oreo cookies and then I'm going to crush your face into the Oreo dust with my polka dot socks!"*
*This is not a verbatim request--I would never out one of my clients like that--but you'd be surprised how similar it is to an actual request I received. And there were so many like that! In the end, we decided it was just too hard to keep up with the individual requests these folks had. Guys who just want to be kicked in the groin are so much easier to please.
posted by apis mellifera at 12:28 AM on April 20, 2010 [5 favorites]
Really? To a greater extent than other fetishes? Why do you think that is?
posted by zarq at 3:16 PM on April 19 [+] [!]
That's a very interesting question.
All my evidence is, naturally, anecdotal. I'm pretty much an amateur in the world of fetish porn. It's something I started doing just for fun with my bf. In case you didn't know there are guys out there who really like being kicked, kneed, punched in the groin. (Or at least they like watching it happen to some other poor fellow on the internets.) Now these guys do have specific requests--hell, many of us have that one dirty little thing we need to see/think/hear to push us over the edge. However, in my experience, guys who want to be "beat up", humiliated or kicked in the junk by pretty girls have more generally similar fantasies than guys who are more exclusively into feet.
We decided to start doing foot fetish stuff, in addition, because it seemed an incredibly easy way to make extra cash at first. I mean, dudes worshiping my feet. How hard could that be?
Then the foot fetishists started writing in with their many varied and amazingly detailed requests. Requests like: Could you please crush Oreo cookies (they have to be Oreos, not Hydrox--I can tell!) with your feet, then shove your bf's face in the cookie dust, stepping on his face with your feet (PLEASE wear polka dot socks!!) and PLEASE say, "I'm crushing these Oreo cookies and then I'm going to crush your face into the Oreo dust with my polka dot socks!"*
*This is not a verbatim request--I would never out one of my clients like that--but you'd be surprised how similar it is to an actual request I received. And there were so many like that! In the end, we decided it was just too hard to keep up with the individual requests these folks had. Guys who just want to be kicked in the groin are so much easier to please.
posted by apis mellifera at 12:28 AM on April 20, 2010 [5 favorites]
I'm sure I'm not the only one who got all excited thinking this was going to be about bicycle pedals.
posted by Joe Chip at 1:35 AM on April 20, 2010
posted by Joe Chip at 1:35 AM on April 20, 2010
Metafilter:Guys who just want to be kicked in the groin are so much easier to please.
posted by Slap*Happy at 6:34 AM on April 20, 2010
posted by Slap*Happy at 6:34 AM on April 20, 2010
Having seen the BBC documentary about men who were sexually aroused by cars and cars alone this seems, if you'll pardon the pun, a little pedestrian.
posted by ob at 8:12 AM on April 20, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by ob at 8:12 AM on April 20, 2010 [1 favorite]
There was an article on ...I wanna say nerve a while back about how a new female editor at "Hustler's Leg World Magazine" turned the publication around by polling the men and finding out what *exact* position, clothing, lighting, whatever, was getting them excited and then carefully composing the photographs around them down to exact angle of the arch or something. I'm trying to find it but goggling "magazine, hustler, editor, leg world" is returning lots of things you'd expect.
Dian Hanson, The Whelk. Coincidentally, I've been trying to recall her name for days now, so thanks!
She is an ex-girlfriend of Robert Crumb. She's the tall, hot blonde he piggyback-rides in the documentary on his life, made as he was leaving to live in France. And, she's brilliant.
posted by IAmBroom at 11:04 AM on April 20, 2010 [1 favorite]
Dian Hanson, The Whelk. Coincidentally, I've been trying to recall her name for days now, so thanks!
She is an ex-girlfriend of Robert Crumb. She's the tall, hot blonde he piggyback-rides in the documentary on his life, made as he was leaving to live in France. And, she's brilliant.
posted by IAmBroom at 11:04 AM on April 20, 2010 [1 favorite]
i think foot fetishes are so varied because it's actually a lump of a bunch of different fetishes.
off the top of my head:
feet
toes
soles
extra dirty
extra clean
socks (which branches into ankle, mid calf, knee high, over the knee, scrunched)
stockings/pantyhose
shoes (branches for every kind of footwear)
CBT by way of feet
foot worship
foot binding
feet washing
tickling
crushing
and now - pedal pushing
it's also one of those fetishes where i think you'll find equal numbers of dominate and submissive desires - some want to be stepped on by the feet, some want to tie a girl up and hit the bottoms with switches.
posted by nadawi at 1:58 PM on April 20, 2010 [2 favorites]
off the top of my head:
feet
toes
soles
extra dirty
extra clean
socks (which branches into ankle, mid calf, knee high, over the knee, scrunched)
stockings/pantyhose
shoes (branches for every kind of footwear)
CBT by way of feet
foot worship
foot binding
feet washing
tickling
crushing
and now - pedal pushing
it's also one of those fetishes where i think you'll find equal numbers of dominate and submissive desires - some want to be stepped on by the feet, some want to tie a girl up and hit the bottoms with switches.
posted by nadawi at 1:58 PM on April 20, 2010 [2 favorites]
i was going to say, the whole foot thing covers so much ground and you're bound to have lots and lots and lots of variation. Footwear alone.
posted by The Whelk at 4:35 PM on April 20, 2010
posted by The Whelk at 4:35 PM on April 20, 2010
I remember Dian mentioning in an interview that foot fetishists always amazed her with the specificity of their fetishes. One month she'd get letters complaining there weren't enough dirty feet; they'd do a dirty feet photoshoot, and she'd get hate mail complaining about the disgusting images, "That's not what I want to see!" (from a different fan).
Undoubtedly true. Cross-dressers are famously supportive of each other; foot fetishists seem to be more "I want it myyyyy wayyyyy".
NTTAWWT. Just interesting, 't's'all.
posted by IAmBroom at 5:12 PM on April 21, 2010
Undoubtedly true. Cross-dressers are famously supportive of each other; foot fetishists seem to be more "I want it myyyyy wayyyyy".
NTTAWWT. Just interesting, 't's'all.
posted by IAmBroom at 5:12 PM on April 21, 2010
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