But yeah, we’re not gonna touch the psychology of any this. Then there’s the internet, where fetishists-and the curious-illustrate or watch anime-styled stills or CG videos of tentacle porn.
The late 1980s–90s saw some tentacle porn in anime, manga, and live-action films, though it was usually meant to be more Cronenbergian in the latter. Penetration by tentacle? Not banned. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ In others, she is being raped.Įither way, Hokusai’s scene was just the beginning of tentacle porn. As early as the 1980s, Japanese manga and anime artists found practical value in tentacle porn: It allowed them to go around Japanese censorship law, which forbade pornographic depictions of the penis. In some interpretations, she is letting them sexually arouse her. The artwork depicts a woman who encounters two octopuses while shell-diving. The story of tentacle porn begins with a Japanese woodblock print The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife, created in 1814 by Hokusai of The Great Wave off Kanagawa fame. Humans have had, um, fishy taste in erotica for centuries.