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Goths, Suicidal Tendencies & Superstar DJs

An eight year study of the sub-culture lifestyles of over a thousand young Brits
published this week, has revealed that 47% of the Goths have attempted suicide and
53% practised self harm, making the youth fashion by far the most self-destructive
sub-cultures.

"Although only fairly small numbers of young people identify themselves as belonging
to the Goth subculture, rates of self-harm and attempted suicide are very high among
this group," said Glasgow University chief researcher Robert Young.

"Young people with a tendency to self-harm are attracted to the Goth subculture," he
added (bbc/ British Medical Journal).

The much maligned movement first emerged in the early 80s and appealed to more than
a few of dance culture's most interesting characters including Danny Howells, Sven
Vath and Dave Clarke, who covered Bauhaus' seminal gothic anthem She's In Parties on
his recent artist album Devil's Advocate.

"I loved the way Bauhaus was Gothy-cool, not over Goth," Dave told Skrufff a couple
of years ago, "I was very into that," he added.

Ivan Smagghe also confessed to a passing interest in the genre when chatting to
Skrufff about his 2004 compilation Death Disco, which prompted now deceased dance
magazine Jockey Slut to brand his band Black Strobe 'electrogoths'.

"My partner (Arnaud Robotini) in Black Strobe was a Goth, I was more into New Wave,"
the French star producer recalled, "Goth was quite funny, a bit silly at times and I
reacted to all that by being different."

Just last week Seb Fontaine admitted a sneaking admiration for the scene, telling UK
mag One Week To Live 'sometimes when I see Goths hanging round Camden, I've got so
much respect for them.'

"And this is something I probably wouldn't have admitted to ten years ago, but just
the fact that they are something . . . they are someone, I quite like that," he
confessed.

The suicide study also added that punk has a similar link with self-harm, though not
as strong as for Goth.

[Mirae-chan]

i dont wear any black makeup or anything but people call me goth lol .. perhaps because of my overobsession with blood and death, etc.

i love how goths look with their pale skin and black makeup and such, and in a few years that might be me .. however, i wouldn't commit self harm on myself. i think about it a lot, but i wouldn't do it, even if i think i do deserve it at the time. there are a bunch of goths who have normal friends and can lead a normal life without self-harm to themselves even if they do look like they would do it. its more of keeping to the image of being goth trying to be cool/trying to not be cool to be cool, which leads to cutting of themselves ..

does anything that i just said make sense .. ? o_o so vague.

[MYV-ROSES]

hey just wanted to add that ppls call me goth as well becos i hab piercing and i dont self harm myself?

that sounds weird dosent it?

well if that makes sense then... u understand me.