Mental Masturbation
First there was porn.
Then there were webcams
Then …
… there was Subservient Chicken.
I don’t want to … don’t find it at all arousing, let alone erotic, and yet …
It’s disturbingly compelling.
What would it be like to order a man in a chicken-suit to degrade himself for my amusement so he could earn (not even) barely enough to feed his children poor quality food at the end of the day?
How would I feel about myself afterwards?
Would I feel unclean?
Would I feel like a part of what passes for my soul had been sullied?
Would I seek revenge upon him for my actions and spur him on to ever more sordid acts in a perversely vicious cycle … desperately seeking an impossible absolution for myself at his expense, as he … ever more desperate to keep his children from starving as, day to day, they lived hand to mouth … did anything … anything … I said to in order to earn a crust?
I like to think so.
But do I want to know so?
What if I do have a soul? What if it is worth worrying about? What if …
What if … instead of corrupting myself … I corrupted others?
Would that make me as bad as … or worse than … them?
Would it make me as bad as … or worse than .. the kind of person who orders a man in a chicken-suit to debase himself because he is desperate to keep his children from starving and will do anything … anything … to achieve that?
How would I find out?
Enter Steven Rouach …
“FUN FACT : Every time you give a round of applause at bottom of the page of one of my stories, I literally leap up and take a bow. True story.”
What if … instead of jumping into the deep end of subservient chicken depravity … I were, instead, to encourage others to humiliate Steven first and see how I felt about it?
Would I feel dangerous?
Liberated?
Orgasmic?
Exhilarated …
… in a dirty sort of way?
Well, there’s only one way to find out, isn’t there?
Steven Rouach … take a bow.
You can see where this is going: webcam … lots of applause on Medium … ensuing hilarity.
Maybe something a little darker ¹.
Obviously, Steven's articles are worth reading ... or I wouldn't know about him or his odd behaviour myself ... so, you should read them too.
Just make sure he regrets it ... that's all I'm saying.
[EDIT]
If anyone’s interested in that kind of thing, you can easily superimpose Steven’s avatar/logo onto the the body of the guy ogling the chicken in the above pic.
</just sayin’>
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¹ That’s between you and Steven as consenting adults, but perhaps you could record some footage — to help me decide if I‘m ready to abuse desperate human beings dressed in chicken-suits in the name of my own gratification ².
² A sort of meta-perversion insofar as I get no kicks from observing them but in observing my own perverse behaviour — mental masturbation, as it were.