Sthenolagnia vs Cratolagnia

five_red wrote: I was watching the end of a Bionic Woman episode the other day where Jaime was trying to hold onto a small plane to stop it from taking off -- the pilot was piling on the power, and it became clear that Jaime was losing the battle. It occurred to me that it would be funny if there was a burst of sparks and a puff of smoke, then Jaime's arm and legs went dead. That's the problem with cyborgs: too much exertion and you're likely to blow a fuse. Then it occurred to me that there's probably a group somewhere out there on the far flung reaches of the internet that are already really into that kind of thing -- super strength overload.

LustMonster wrote: To celebrate their cessation of hostilities after years of destructive superwoman battle, the two former Soviet republics decided to hold a Rumble Ball tournament.

Sthenolagnia sent its squad to Augoosta, the capital city of its neighbor and long time enemy Cratolagnia. The crowd in the packed stadium roared and jeered as a dozen huge muscle goddesses stomped off the team personnel carrier and onto the field. Several of the huge ballers displayed their strength by tearing off pieces of the craft as they exited it, crumpling them into tight wads of tortured metal to be crushed between swelling pecs or thighs.

Waiting for them on the field, the tall, beautiful, svelte Crat team members stood with hands on dainty hips, smirking as they watched their opponents' beastly theatrics. The home team intended to show these stomping brutes (once again!) that muscle wasn't everything, in Rumble Ball as well as in battle...

The Highlander wrote: Reading all the comments to this tread has been interesting, and funnily enough there was a piece about this same distinction a while ago on a DeviantArt group I'm part of.

From the responses so far it appears that I one of the few people here who's primary interest is in Sthenolagnia rather than Cratolagnia. Unlike I suspect most of you my initial attraction was to female muscles and the power they represented which meant that to me strength and muscles are intrinsically linked. While I find the idea of a normal looking/skinny girl effortlessly lifting some massive weight attractive I am also drawn to particularly large and powerful looking women as well. Of course everything can vary depending on the particular story or picture in question, but in general the level of musculature I find 'acceptable' is a lot higher than most of the other examples given. To me the idea of a 7+ foot woman with muscles bigger than the hulk is on the whole exciting rather than excessive, and I even have some interest in true giantesses as well.

A good example of this is a picture I had commissioned a while ago (attached below) of Amy Pond from Doctor Who having undergone a massive growth spurt. To me the size of her muscles are almost as much of a turn on as the implied strength behind them, and coupled with my existing attraction to Amy Pond it makes this one of my favourite pictures ever.

Monty wrote: I like the idea of a slim, slender woman transforming at will into a muscular superheroine (not too muscular, but bursting out of her clothes . Something like this...

sidd1333 wrote: I love female muscles, the way they look and feel )
But I rather like the kind of muscles that gain strength not by getting volume but by getting more dense and defined. I like when a female body is covered by wires of muscles, which do not burst out.
Why muscular? Love for this is in DNA of my subconscious ) Muscles on a girl is a sign of her strength and endurance for me, which I love.
Why not too heavy? Cause... just because. This is what a nice muscle girl looks like, for me.

Monty wrote: A few years ago, I would have baulked at Tetsuko 's mass with a nope, not interested, but I think it works in dcm's graphics mode. It's like a cartoon I wouldn't be interested in a muscle morph of an actual real-life model to those extents!

The Highlander wrote: A good example of this is a picture I had commissioned a while ago (attached below) of Amy Pond from Doctor Who having undergone a massive growth spurt. To me the size of her muscles are almost as much of a turn on as the implied strength behind them, and coupled with my existing attraction to Amy Pond it makes this one of my favourite pictures ever.

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LustMonster wrote: Sorry man, but those two tiny little former Soviet republics got caught in the crossfire in the superwoman battle of the two bigger ones. There's nothing left of them but a vast sea of smoking rubble, and one KFC that has surprisingly managed to stay in business anyway.