Fetish of strength is a type of fetishism in which sexual arousal is caused by such qualities of a partner as volume and elasticity of muscles , ability to perform strength (lifting and holding weights, bending, tearing, crushing solid objects) and acrobatic stunts, martial arts achievements. Sometimes, less often, it is expressed in the desire to achieve similar results yourself and demonstrate them to others. It does not have a special name in Russian; the terms "sthenolagnia" and "cratolagnia" are accepted in English literature.
It is satisfied in various ways: visiting, or watching in the recording, bodybuilder competitions, participation in mixed wrestling ( en: Intergender wrestling ), touching the muscular body ( en: Muscle worship ). In some countries, it has led to the emergence of professional “session wrestler,” women with athletic training and willing to fight men for a fee. Apparently, largely determines the interest of heterosexual men in the struggle of submission and catfight ( en: Catfight ).
In art, he gave rise to the female muscle growth comic book genre, whose heroines possess huge muscles that are impossible in reality, as well as a kind of muscle furry furry art . In hentai, he created the subgenre of the setakon “Kinset”, whose heroes are teenagers of secondary school age with strong, muscular muscles beyond the years.
It can be combined with other types of fetishism, for example, the practice of “head scissors” (a woman grabs and squeezes a man’s neck with her legs) is at the junction of a force fetish and a foot fetish . It is partly connected with sadomasochism , since the dominant partner, as well as the audience, can enjoy the pain endurance shown by the subordinate (which is also a kind of “strength”), as well as the subordinate himself from the opportunity to show it.
Related Fetishes
- L&C, Lift and Carry (the desire to be raised and carried on the hands). The literal translation from English is to lift and carry (hold). It is considered in various aspects. The first one is technical, connected with hoisting mechanisms, equipment and devices. The second is the process of physical interaction between people, as a rule, of a non-violent nature, in which one of the partners or partners raises and (or) transfers the other (the other). L&C elements are widely represented in ballet, folk and ballroom (sports) dances, in the Finnish sports and folklore shows, in many circus genres, and some types of sports festive events, sports acrobatics, figure skating, acrobatic rock and roll, sports aerobics and to a certain extent in synchronized swimming and wrestling. L&C is one of the varieties of fetish, where the process of lifting and transferring between two or more groups of people is already a fetish for an outside observer. An important role is played by contrast in the dimensions and physiological characteristics of the participants, racial-anthropological and age-sex (and, under certain conditions, social) differences along with the heterochromophilia factor, which together stimulate the excitation apparatus. As a fetish, L&C, until recently, was rare and rarely seen in post-Soviet republics. But now it is becoming more popular. According to research, the subtypes such as a woman lifts and carries a man and the woman lifts and carries a woman are most interested.
- Crash fetish . For example, a video where a woman shows crushing a watermelon between her hips is sexy for crash and power fetishists at the same time.
- Macrophilia (craving for taller people, in the narrow sense - for giants)