Reddit Gone Wild

Today's guest artist is Erin Casteel. To see more of her work, check out her deviantART page.

The subreddit in question here is called, “gonewild.” I imagine most of you can find your way to it without our help if you are so inclined. Assuming it isn’t already your homepage.

I actually discovered the thing a few weeks ago when I followed back some traffic that came at us from the gonewilders, which was pointing at a comic my esteemed partner had written which, in its very title, contained the word “MILF.” If we’re calling that a word now. It’s my understanding that our standards for such things have slacked in recent years. I can’t be sure, though. I’m boycotting the OED until they put “Sheepdip” back in. Sheepdip is my boy. Solidarity.

But, yeah. Over at gonewild people are going mostly very tame, to be honest, but they are arriving with little or no clothing. At first I marveled at it. The idea that this many humans would be willing and eager to put themselves out there, nakedly, for no cash and with the hope of praise and the desire, I would assume, that people would masturbate to pictures and videos of them.

I didn’t think less of them; I just couldn't wrap my head around them. I wondered. What makes a person do this?

And then it clicked into place, like the hammer on a revolver promised suicide. It’s what I do every day. In movies and books and even in this silly webcomic I put myself out into the wolrd more naked than naked and I hope that people will like me. And I hope they get off on my mind. It clicked and I remembered that we are brothers and sisters, all. And I cleared my recent history and I closed the browser and I still have no idea what would make a person do this.

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