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>>4834
I believe that the interest of ugly bastards all stems from a desire for self validation and intimacy from a submissive role's point of view.
I feel that social relations are the de facto form of validation of the self. Naturally, although not necessarily, we tend towards a biological need to seek confirmation of ourselves through others. This need, in my opinion, is the drive that makes us seek one another, even if in destructive relations. It confirms one's self of not only their existence, but also their own values' and identity when placed in relation to the other. More so than an end in itself, relating to others characterizes the means by which we fulfill the need of self validation.
Relating to others in a manner further from generic everyday interactions signifies intimacy and enables differentiation of the self from the amorphous social mass. A very strong form of building intimacy is having shared experiences. Shared experiences that are more meaningful, for whatever reason, are stronger as tokens of intimacy than less meaningful ones, and serve as more efficient means of self differentiation than common, socially acceptable and expectable experiences. One aspect of meaningful experiences is transgression of externally imposed limitations. When transgression is done conjointly, it implies trust, which implies intimacy, which again implies self validation and differentiation.
Individuals inherit culturally imposed limitations to sexual practices in the form sexual taboos. These don't have to be outspoken, legal, or even conscious limitations, but are generally inherited as shared common values. To transgress these, again, self validates through the perceived requirement of intimacy between parties.
This is where ugly bastard doujin come in. When reading fiction, the reader always takes a point of self insertion. With ugly bastard doujin, whether you choose to self insert as the dominant or the submissive role, you are still going to be seeking the same aspects of validation and intimacy. This is because the reader is led to experience that strongly transgressional situation of a shared experience. One attains the fantasy of submission or domination. This is not simply about the fictionalized act, but also the validation of one's own perceived values through media consumption. One then doubly affirms oneself, both in reality as consumption, and in fiction as simulation. The more transgressive to the limitations imposed on reality and fiction, the more this level of meaning reinforces itself.
What is essential for this to be true is the portrayal or suggestion of consent. Without this, the sense of conjoint experience of transgression just becomes an overpowering fantasy. Given that most male parts in this genre are abstracted through faceless males with little to no characterization, the focus ends up being mainly female- or submissive-role oriented. With this submissive-focus in mind, the suggestion of consent or agreement is done by all sorts of ways, like the form in which orgasm is depicted, the presence of heart in eyes or speech bubbles, hips moving on their own, coscience clouded by pleasure in the form of mind break, to name a few. If this agreement can be suggested, it implies the previously mentioned sharing of a trangressional experience, and the reader can then live vicariously through the fiction of being accepted by another despite all the implied restrictions saying otherwise.
What is interesting from this, I feel, is mind break as a genre. It gives explicit attention to the turning point of meaning in the doujin. For example, in a generic rape mind break doujin, I would argue that, for many readers, the interest still exists in the same framework suggested above. One is still seeking the same feelings of unconscious shared experience and intimacy in a personal level. The necessary consent is suggested through the mind break. It implies a biological level of pleasure that would cloud and override consciousness. This may be opportunely interpreted by the reader as agreement, and thus trigger the feel of mutual intimacy that one, I believe, naturally tends towards seeking.
Within all of this, though, I feel that most of the self insertion in this type of doujin is made through a submissive point of view. This, I believe, is a hypothesis reinforced by the medium: male or dominant characters are mostly abstract whenever possible; male or dominant experiences are mostly ignored and undescribed; female or submissive points of view and experiences are explored and focused on. In general, male or dominant characters are without background or significant narrative meaning to their actions, commonly simply being the dominant agent for the story. The characters which suffer meaningful action, whose experiences are narratively meaningful and serve as drive from a starting point to an ending point, are commonly the female or submissive characters. The reader is thus impelled to follow the narrative through the narrative focus of, and thus relate to, the submissive part.
I believe that many readers within this genre are actually exclusively submissive themselves. This comes from, if anything, the same previously mentioned desire for validation and intimacy. Deprivation of social relations and intimate experiences, I feel, lead to desperation for intimacy and acceptance, which in turn lead to submissive behavior, possibly as a biological attempt of appeasing and signaling desire. This is particularly noticeable in 2D, given that the object of desire is intagible. This has a noticeable result when you see doujin: genres like loli, rape, humiliation, drugs, abuse and so on, I feel, are, despite common misconception, targeted towards submissive individuals that self inserted as the loli, as the raped, as the humiliated. Of course not all readers seek it this way, but I believe many, even if unconsciously, still do, perhaps most of the readers. Within such a framework, even without consent suggestions like implicit signs of pleasure or explicit signs such as mind break, the mutual agreement is implied by the readers themselves. And this is the case with many doujin out there.
So this is where I feel ugly bastard doujin end up figuring: they are a submissive-oriented method of simulating intimacy and self validation through narratives depicting transgressional actions as the means to increase the feeling of validation one gets from their fiction. I feel this explanation is able to explain all sorts of doujin genre, like monster rape, tentacle rape and bestiality. One may be suspicious of it due to its facility to apply to all sorts of situations, but I think that this is the result from it being the common root of what would otherwise be just considered degeneracy.
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