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Thanatophiliac, mental patient, and university student. Depression and anxiety and vague body dysmorphia and PTSD. I write and I reblog lots of gothy things and occasional fandom things. I take a lot of pictures of myself to help with my body image issues. I'm scared of politics and intimacy. I worship the 19th century aesthetes: "In such an ugly time, the true protest is beauty."
Critical Irrelevance- cde: Dear romance authors of the world,
Do you have any idea the force it takes to bite enough to break skin and draw blood? One does not bite one’s lip in sexual frustration *until it bleeds*. Even if…
Okay, the finger thing was just in case you were basing your theory on that factoid. I’ve just heard it from a number of people and know it to be untrue, so I mentioned that it wasn’t.
As for raw meat, I still think it’s different than biting into skin - living skin being constructed for protective purposes and dead muscle and fat being what the skin was supposed to protect. And isn’t raw meat a little chewy/stringy/difficult to break? I honestly don’t know, because I’ve never eaten it. It looks that way though.
You’re still not answering the personal experience I’ve had, which is, in my mind the strongest evidence I have. None of it points to the idea that it’s at all easy to break skin. I’m actually going out with some close friends tonight, who I feel comfortable biting/biting me. I’m going to take video footage documenting our findings. It’ll be like pornography for vampires. Awesome. Best internet fight ever.
(P.S. Have you really ever bitten your tongue straight through? Or are you, like, referring to people who do that while having a seizure? The most I’ve ever done is scraped a little and drawn a drop of blood.)
Honestly, it takes a lot to want to bite through a person. You either need to be in fight/flight mode, or be a...
in case you were basing your theory...factoid. I’ve just heard it from