An article i have found on the internet, which is about the lolita/gothic***

Young people turn to neo-masochism, including wrist-cutting


A peculiar and disturbing current of "darkness" appears to have taken hold among some of today's younger generation of Japanese, writes clinical psychologist Yo Yahata in Sekai magazine.
He reports on some phenomena he has encountered among his young patients, such as exchanging email about wrist cutting (self-harm) and about their experiences of psychiatric treatment. He notes that those people tend to go for rock groups whose songs dwell on extremely grim subjects, like the group Mucc, which has come out with titles like "Despair," "To Shreds," "Heart Warped by Lies," and "After Death a Lump."

He also cites the fashion look called "gosurori," an abbreviation of the Japanese for "gothic Lolita," as a typical expression of this dark mentality. This look consists mostly of black, accentuated by bits of white, and in more extreme cases it clearly evokes an image of death.

Yahata uses the term neo-masochism to describe the psychology of these young people.
As he sees it, when they report on their wrist cutting and the like to others over the Internet, they are not displaying a sense of victimization, asking, "Who did this to me?" or anything of the sort; they are simply using these negative experiences as tools to establish close ties to others.
He offers his assessment that the neo-masochists' thinking represents no more than one aspect of the pervasive contemporary Japanese culture of dependency, in which people seek to avoid criticism and responsibility.

January 28, 2004