Marcel Winatschek

Gorgeous and Gross

Found a video of this tattooed girl doing things with her tongue that I don’t know how to feel about. The control she has is legitimately wild—shapes and movements that seem impossible. I can’t stop watching it, except I also can’t stop wanting to look away.

That’s the whole thing for me: I can’t decide if it’s hot or disgusting. Half of me is into it, genuinely attracted to the wrongness and the skill and whatever boundary it’s crossing. The other half is turned off, thinking yeah okay this is basically gross. One frame it’s sexy, the next it’s grotesque. One second I’m locked in, the next I’m cringing.

I don’t know who she is or what she does or how long she’s been doing this. Doesn’t matter. The pure mechanical fact of what her body can do—that’s what gets me. And I still can’t decide if I like it or if it repels me, which I guess is the point. The fact that I can’t decide is the thing I can’t get over.