Hello, aside from being a "community member' here, I'm also a guro artist.

I'm not a member of true crime communities, but I do watch true crime. I watch it because reliving other peoplse murder experiences is a thrill, and I find it hot. I know when I'm watching it that I'm getting something different out of it than the normal community. Sometimes I feel I'm being called a monster. I have no interest in school killers, I think it's a waste of life to kill in anger. I think it's a waste of life to kill in lust too, but that's something I can understand-- I cannot understand killing someone out of anger at all. For most people, I think the opposite is true.

Ofcourse guro fantasies are fantasies. There are fetishes like fucking someones brain, but to do that in real life... It would probably be so soft it wouldn't feel like moving through anything. Guro is a cartoon appropriation of death, where the rules only work by the artists best understanding of death. Even when the guro is accurate, or when someone looks at real gore, the i mportant thing is that there are no consequences to viewing it. For me, guro is a genre of self exploration, a stage where I can play with death and grief, but it's all acting.

Guro as a primal memory? I think my interest in it has more to due with my personal life and upbringing than any ancestral heritage.

I hope your studies go well, learn something about us. Psychology and therapy in this area could be useful, a lot of people here feel in pain because they think they're different, impossible to understand. People are here for all sorts of different reasons, though our community has shrank significantly over the years. It can barely be called a community now.