Tentacle Porn
This is quite scary actually in what it reveals about the Japanese national psyche. You should be warned that this is far from tasteful, and probably quite disturbing…
The law still exists today that you can’t show genitalia or pubic hair in Japan on TV, in magazines or on video. Some years ago, animators and artists were looking to find new ways of delivering ever more explicit material to sex-starved salarymen and over active boys.
The solution was simple, and as usual with many things Japanese, inexplicable. You couldn’t show a woman having sex with a man, so instead why not an animal? And what better animal than an octopus? After all, it has 8 phallic appendages ready and waiting for some hot schoolgirl action. And unfortunately most of the time it is schoolgirls, and unfortunately most of the time it is unconsentual.
Apparently the thought of marine animal bestiality rape was nowhere near as harmful as the idea of sex between two consenting humans. Thus it was allowed, neatly circumventing the censorship, substituting it for something undeniably more lurid and distressing and giving birth to a whole new genre of pornography, which is now incredibly popular. So popular in fact, that many video stores have an entire section devoted to it.
The most famous film is Legend of the Overfiend which has been described as:
“.. the the most famous tentacle rape and super-violent horror in the history of anime.”
I would be worried for any person that actually found entertaining a film described in this way.
July 17th, 2004 at 11:06 pm
Jam, this is GROSS!
July 18th, 2004 at 11:39 am
I take it in your next post you’re going to tell us how you found out about this?
July 19th, 2004 at 1:54 pm
I can honestly say I’ve never seen any of this stuff. I only write about it because I saw an article in a Gaijin magazine asking why there was so much in Japan. To be honest, I didn’t think this kind of thing existed in the real world, except underground. Unfortunately, it appears not to be the case.
One of things about experiencing a country is that you sometimes find things disturbing. For me, this is one of those times. But, if I ignored its existence, it would be ignoring something that is a part of Japanese culture. I have no desire to see it, and I guess you guys don’t either, but I wanted to write about it to let people know Japan’s not all karate and chopsticks. There is some truly weird stuff here that wouldn’t be considered legal let alone acceptable back home.
July 29th, 2004 at 4:49 pm
Hi, linked to your website from Ben’s (ninjamin.blogspot.com) a friend of mine from Seoul. The place looks great- especially the gallery, love the fact that the thumbnails are a small section of the whole picture rather than the usual scaled down version.
I’ve been over to Japan a few times, it’s weird how the porn there manages to be so offensive whilst at the same time showing so little. So people tell me anyway.
I studied in the same department as you, Uni of Man- BSc Comp Science+Maths, 1996-1999, so if you want to see how you might end up in 3 years time you could check my site. (I’ll warn you now, it ain’t pretty).