The Construction Of Catgirls
There were catgirls on ErosBlog within the first year of publication, way back in 2003. But I cannot say for certain whether I had carved out a category for catgirls in my erotic imagination prior to 2009, when Dr. Faustus, then co-blogging here at ErosBlog, wrote this essay on porn as an engine of progress in which he discussed hedonism, neophorics, and catgirls.
Starting from a launchpad quote by Eliezer Yudkowsky about living in a volcanic lair with a bevy of sexy catgirls, Dr. Faustus concluded that erotic pleasure drives innovation, and optimistically suggested that “maybe someday some clever bioengineer will actually deliver up a catgirl.”
While we all waited for bioengineering to get catgirls sorted out, heroic cosplayers were working the problem. Ears got better, tails got better, people were making their own fun. Catgirls are now easy to find. I’ve enjoyed encountering them on social media for many years.
However, after getting on Mastodon a couple years ago, it began to seem like catgirls were suddenly everywhere. So many catgirls! I swam along quite happily in this newly-discovered sea of parasocial catgirls until it gradually began to dawn on me: many catgirls are transwomen. Likewise puppy girls, bunny girls, fox girls, and so forth. But especially cat girls.
Please don’t demand that I prove this assertion. Upon briefest consideration, you would realize that the evidentiary requirements would make that effort ridiculous, impossible, and rude. Nonetheless, I believe it to be so.
Once I came to that conclusion, I had to decide how I felt about it. After a bit of processing, I realized I didn’t care even a little bit. If there’s still a component of trans panic in my psychosexual makeup, it’s going to rear up in situations more closely intimate than I am ever likely to experience with catgirls on social media. I don’t need to give a fuck, so I don’t give a fuck. That’s allowed me to enjoy the “clicker trained” meme beyond all reason. It’s also why I love the endless parade of TikTok memes like this one from NekoSheryl. They all feature someone responding to an inappropriate gender query with “You want to do a questionnaire and find out? Or do you wanna kiss and then feel out how you feel afterwards?”
It’s the perfect response to a question that’s super ridiculous. There are very few contexts where such a questioner has any need to know, and in all of them, the kiss will yield a more useful answer than the questionnaire.
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