The first purely non-hentai anime portraying a tentacle assault would be 1986 anime OVA Guyver: Out of Control, where a female Chronos soldier named Valcuria is enshrouded by the second (damaged) Guyver unit that surrounds her in tentacle form and assaults her. The earliest animated form of tentacle erotica was in the 1985 original video animation (OVA) Dream Hunter Rem, though the scene in question was excised when the OVA was re-released in a non-hentai form. You know, the creatures, they don't have a gender. I could say, as an excuse, this is not a penis this is just a part of the creature. His tentacle is not a penis as a pretext. I thought I should do something to avoid drawing such a normal sensual scene. According to the mangaka Toshio Maeda:Īt that time pre- Urotsukidōji, it was illegal to create a sensual scene in bed. Leaders within the tentacle porn industry have stated that much of their work was initially directed at circumventing this policy. While exposed genitalia (and, until recently, pubic hair) is illegal, the diversity of permissible sexual acts is now fairly wide, relative to other liberal democracies. How this term is interpreted, however, has not remained constant. Presently, 'obscenity' is still prohibited. The legal proscriptions against pornography, therefore, derive from the nation's penal code. After the World War II, the Allies imposed a number of reforms onto the Japanese government including anti-censorship laws. The influence of European Victorian culture was a catalyst for legislative interest in public sexual mores. The dialogue in the illustration shows the diver and two octopuses expressing mutual enjoyment.Ĭontemporary censorship in Japan dates to the Meiji period. During her escape, the Dragon King and his sea-life minions (including octopuses) pursue her. In the story, Tamatori steals a jewel from the Dragon King. It is an example of shunga (Japanese erotic woodblock art) and has been reworked by a number of artists, such as Masami Teraoka, who brought the image up to date with his 2001 work 'Sarah and Octopus/Seventh Heaven', which was part of his Waves and Plagues collection.Ī scholarly paper by Danielle Talerico put forth the theory that although Western audiences often interpret Hokusai's famous design as rape, Japanese audiences of the Edo period would have viewed it as consensual, recognizing the print as depicting the legend of the female abalone diver Tamatori.

Īmong the most famous of the early instances is an illustration from the 1814 Hokusai book Kinoe no Komatsu, known as The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife. Some of the earliest examples of tentacle erotica were woodblock prints depicting women being violated by octopuses, such as Kitao Shigemasa's Programme of Erotic Noh Plays (1781) and Shunshō Katsukawa's Lust of Many Women on One Thousand Nights (1786). While most tentacle erotica is animated, there are also a few live-action films that depict it. In the 21st century, Japanese films of this genre have become recognized in the United States and Europe, although it remains a small, fetish-oriented part of the adult film industry. The genre is well known enough in Japan that it is the subject of parody. Tentacle erotica can be consensual but mostly contains elements of rape. It is found in some horror or hentai titles, with tentacled creatures (usually fictional monsters) having sexual intercourse, predominantly with females or, to a lesser extent, males.

Tentacle erotica ( 触手強姦, shokushu goukan, 'tentacle violation') or tentacle rape is a type of pornography most commonly found in Japan which integrates traditional pornography with elements of bestiality, fantasy, horror, and science-fiction. La Grande danse macabre des vifs by Martin van Maële

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