Sneeze fetishists unsure if Contagion will be sexy or not
Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion imagines a world where Gwyneth Paltrow, smuggling the avian flu in her delicate bird bones, unleashes a pandemic that very nearly destroys civilization, and kills a dozen or so Hollywood stars in the process. It’s a horrifying prospect, but might it also be kind of sexy? That’s the question being posed over at the Sneeze Fetish Forum, where Internet denizens who are turned on by sneezing gather to discuss their fixation, exchange sneeze porn, and, naturally, alert each other to choice scenes of sneezing in pop culture, whether they occur on shows like Hell’s Kitchen or even Futurama, as they will take sneezes wherever they can get them. And given that Contagion is a film that features Marion Cotillard playing a sort of expert in the forensics of sneezing, you might expect the board to be all over it, and that sneeze fetishists would be aching to flock to Contagion, balled-up Kleenexes in tow.