Tentacle erotica

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Diver and Two Octopi, a design by Hokusai of 1814 depicting a woman engaging in sex with a pair of octopuses.

Tamatori steals the Dragon King's jewel, by Utagawa Kuniyoshi.

Tentacle rape or shokushu goukan (触手強姦) is a concept found in some horror hentai titles, where various tentacled creatures (usually fictional monsters) rape or otherwise penetrate women, anthropomorphous creatures, Futanari and less commonly men. The genre is quite popular in Japanese erotica, and is even the subject of much parody.

[edit] History

Tentacled creatures appeared in Japanese erotica long before animated pornography. Among the most famous of the early instances -- and perhaps the first -- is an illustration from the novel 'Kinoe no komatsu' of 1814 by Katsushika Hokusai. It is a celebrated example of shunga (Japanese erotic art) and has been reworked by a number of artists. Australian artist David Laity reworked the design into a painting of the same name, and Masami Teraoka brought the image up to date with his 2001 work "Sarah and Octopus/Seventh Heaven," part of his Waves and Plagues collection.

A scholarly paper by Danielle Talerico^[1] showed that although western audiences have often interpreted Hokusai’s famous design as rape, Japanese audiences of the Edo period would have associated it with the legend of the female abalone diver Tamatori. In the story, Tamatori steals a jewel from the Dragon King. However, during her egress, the Dragon King and his sea-life minions (including octopi) pursue her. Furthermore, within the dialogue in the illustration itself, the diver and two octopuses express mutual enjoyment.

[edit] Culture

Toshio Maeda’s manga Urotsukidoji created what might be called the modern paradigm of tentacle porn, in which the elements of sexual assault are emphasized. Maeda explained that he invented the practice to get around strict Japanese censorship regulations, which prohibit the depiction of the penis but apparently do not prohibit showing sexual penetration by a tentacle or similar (often robotic) appendage.

[edit] Media

This genre is depicted in the following media.

• The Urotsukidoji Saga—Started in 1987, the Overfiend series is the most well-known title in the genre. Western audiences know this work, or at least a portion of it, by the title “Legend of the Overfiend.”
• La Blue Girl—A series of films that moved from animation to live action. Famous for being refused translation outright by the British censor.
• Injukyoshi (“Obscene Beast Teacher”) or Angel of Darkness —A four-part anime series, later adapted to a live action film.
• Alien from the Darkness and Advancer Tina—Hentai films about female explorers battling tentacled aliens.
• The first episode of the bakunyuu series Sexy Sailor Soldiers features females being raped by a tentacled monster.
• Blood Royal Princess, a hentai about a pirate who can control octopus to rape two princesses who are being trained to become sex slaves.

At times, the genre also seems to exploit the more controversial realms of bodice ripper genre, particularly rape fantasies, with the “safety” that the scenes being depicted are so absurd or fanciful they do not have parallels in the real world. Some fans see it as the extreme of bodice-ripping stories, although the rape fantasy genre is seen more critically in the West than in native Japan.

• In horror film Galaxy of Terror, the character Dameia, portrayed by Taaffe O'Connell is raped by a giant worm.

The topic is also ripe for parody, as shown by the following:

• A range of other Cthulhu-related web pages,^[2] like a strip^[3] from the Unspeakable Vault (of Doom).
• Many different web comics and cultural groups on the internet reference tentacle pr0n in a humorous way. An example is Ghastly’s Ghastly Comic, in which it is a frequently recurring topic.
• The Lighter Side of Tentacle Hentai,^[4] from Sexy Losers.
• Something Awful's anime forum was named the "Anime Death Tentacle Rape Whorehouse."
• Weebl and Bob encounter tentacle rape in the episode 'Hentai'.^[5]
• In Seattle Timely, a Seattle video blog, a reporter interviews two tentacle rape actors before The Stranger's third annual HUMP! Film Festival.^[6]
• Mnemosyne LLC releases a Grape-flavored drink called 'Tentacle Grape'^[7]
• Dwight Schrute, a fictional paper salesman from the TV series The Office, complains of the misrepresentation of octopus and squid sexuality in shokushu goukan hentai porn in his personal blog "Schrute Space".^[8]
• A skit on Robot Chicken, in the episode "Love, Maurice". A tentacle monster calls a schoolgirl and asks if she would go out with him to the movies, but she refuses.

[edit] See also

• Shambleau

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Japan SAQ—“Seldom Asked Questions” about Japan.
• Manga Artist Interview Series Part I, Sake-Drenched Postcards—interview with Toshio Maeda.