a kink question for you, flist
Aug. 1st, 2012 04:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ariadnes_stringSo, I have "uniforms/military" kink on my ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
kink_bingo card. This kink is usually all about order, discipline, restraint, regimentation, tidiness, etc. (cf the kink wiki entry). But would it be possible to have a kink for uniforms soiled/destroyed/wrecked by combat?
Some quotes admiring the sexiness/desirability of dirty uniforms:
"Their faces are covered with dust, sand, tar, gun lubricant, tobacco spittle and sewer water from the town. No one's showered or changed out of the bulky chemical protection suits they've been wearing for ten days. Since all mirrors and reflective surfaces have been stripped from their Humvees to make the vehicles harder to detect, most of the men haven't seen themselves since crossing the border. Their filthy faces seem to make their teeth shine even whiter as they laugh and hug one another."
Generation Kill (the book)
"Person shares an observation about his own reaction to combat. He stands by the road, pissing. 'Man, I pulled my trousers down and it smells like hot dick," he says. "That sweaty hot-cock smell. I kind of smell like I just had sex."
also Generation Kill (a line that didn't make it into the miniseries)
"On the Marine's head was an Australian bush hat, left brim folded up at the side. Matted blond hair, discolored with grime, showed beneath it. His uniform was a mass of tattered holes and filth. One trouser leg had been torn off just below the knee, revealing pasty white flesh covered with infected leech bites and jungle rot. His hands, face, and arms were also covered with jungle rot and open sores. You could smell him as he walked by. But he walked by as if the LZ belonged to him, seemingly unaware of the hundred or more pounds he carried. He was a bush Marine, and Mellas wanted fervently to be just like him."
Matterhorn, Karl Marlantes (Vietnam in 1969)
cf, just about every episode of The Pacific
I know this is technically more of "dirty/messy," or "bodily secretions" or even "guro" kink--but can you imagine fic about people getting off on the smell, feel, look of wrecked uniforms, for various complicated reasons?
thanks!
kink_bingo card. This kink is usually all about order, discipline, restraint, regimentation, tidiness, etc. (cf the kink wiki entry). But would it be possible to have a kink for uniforms soiled/destroyed/wrecked by combat?Some quotes admiring the sexiness/desirability of dirty uniforms:
"Their faces are covered with dust, sand, tar, gun lubricant, tobacco spittle and sewer water from the town. No one's showered or changed out of the bulky chemical protection suits they've been wearing for ten days. Since all mirrors and reflective surfaces have been stripped from their Humvees to make the vehicles harder to detect, most of the men haven't seen themselves since crossing the border. Their filthy faces seem to make their teeth shine even whiter as they laugh and hug one another."
Generation Kill (the book)
"Person shares an observation about his own reaction to combat. He stands by the road, pissing. 'Man, I pulled my trousers down and it smells like hot dick," he says. "That sweaty hot-cock smell. I kind of smell like I just had sex."
also Generation Kill (a line that didn't make it into the miniseries)
"On the Marine's head was an Australian bush hat, left brim folded up at the side. Matted blond hair, discolored with grime, showed beneath it. His uniform was a mass of tattered holes and filth. One trouser leg had been torn off just below the knee, revealing pasty white flesh covered with infected leech bites and jungle rot. His hands, face, and arms were also covered with jungle rot and open sores. You could smell him as he walked by. But he walked by as if the LZ belonged to him, seemingly unaware of the hundred or more pounds he carried. He was a bush Marine, and Mellas wanted fervently to be just like him."
Matterhorn, Karl Marlantes (Vietnam in 1969)
cf, just about every episode of The Pacific
I know this is technically more of "dirty/messy," or "bodily secretions" or even "guro" kink--but can you imagine fic about people getting off on the smell, feel, look of wrecked uniforms, for various complicated reasons?
thanks!
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Date: 2012-08-01 10:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-01 10:51 pm (UTC)I love the idea of fetishizing the corruption of pristine things! In the context of GK or The Pacific (which I would probably write it for), I think it would be more about familiarity/intimacy/loss of physical & psychic coherence -- also just the tactility and gooeyness of it all.
(yes, watch me twist all kinks around to things I'm interested in ;))