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). Although perhaps it wasn't the lack of sales that made PieJinx and Blue Leopard quit; I don't really know, it's not like either one publicly explained why they shut down their stores.



Insofar as there's a dominance/submission power-play thing happening, in my opinion the face and hair are very natural places to start (at least when producing for a visual medium, which by definition prioritizes things that are visually striking and noticeable). I know it's not impossible to do power-exchange stuff with, again, calves or shoulders or whatever, but you sort of said it yourself: the head and the face are the apotheosis.
I also think it's a bit inaccurate to say that there can't be any added intensity if you start with the head or face. After all, part of the intensity comes from the meaning of what's happening; otherwise we'd experience slime or gunge roughly the same way that we do shampoo (i.e., with extremely minimal intensity). So, depending on how you set it up and who's involved, the mere fact of using more and more mess can cause a different response, or using a different type of mess can cause a different response, etc.
From the way people go after each other in amateur contexts, it also seems like maybe this is just the most statistically intuitive way of trying to get someone messy? Admittedly there are a ton of confounding factors here, but, like, there does sort of seem to be a broad consensus even among non-WAMers that the most satisfying ways of getting someone messy are either to dump something over their head, throw something in their face, or launch them bodily into something (dunk tanks, gunge tanks, mud pits, etc.).

