b) tentacle sex – wow. See, now I didn’t know any of that about the rich historical tradition and whatnot, but I was (furtively) drawing erotica of my own as far back as 16 years ago, and I loved tentacles in my art and nascent sexual imagination. Then about a decade ago I found a gorgeous (non-hentai) piece in a Heavy Metal magazine featuring an octopus/man. Just now I learned that it’s a well-explored theme (spearheaded by the Japanese, of course). Unknowingly, I’ve belonged to a group of tentacle sex fans and artists for years and years! But of course, we are all plugged into the worlds mass unconscious – nothing is original.

Heather – Ahh, if only you were an anime character, then your dream would be possible!

Aragorn – Thank you so much sweety! You’re too kind.

Pornster – Meh, what ever gets you going (as long as it’s not hurting anyone)…

Rosie – Thank you so much.

Cipher – haha thanks! ^_^

Anon – awww that’s very sweet.

Adam – I think I am going to have to re-download my La Blue girl episodes, because after reading this post my roommate really wants to see them! haha

Dielo – Gosh, you certainly have strange nightmares! While I do admit that I find many sea creatures, like these octopi a little scary myself, the intention of the artist was to be playfully sensual – not frightening.

Luckily, the few manga films that you seem to be familiar with are not the only examples of tentacle sex out there – just like how in “regular” porn, things can be taken to extremes that can make many people uncomfortable, the same can happen in hentai. I don’t watch (or look at images of) violent tentacle sex, for the same reason that I don’t usually look at rough bdsm porn – it’s just not my kind of thing. The violent and degrading tentacle sex that you are talking about uses the power play and bdsm features of tentacle sex that I referred to in my post, but taken to a further extreme than, for example, you are comfortable with.

I’m sorry you feel that my post was prejudiced against western culture. However, it’s not my fault that various cultures have historically had fucked up views on sex. Even today, one could compare the attitudes about sexuality of Europe to the repressed attitudes of the US. Every culture has it’s pros and it’s cons which are in constant flux, but it would take me too long to hash out each positive and negative when I’m just trying to write a simple post on tentacle sex.

From the few manga films that feature this oddness, the tentacle sex was always, always excessively violent and used to degrade the female characters (further). Pity you couldn’t have addressed this aspect of the culture and made a more balanced article, instead of just spinning a west=bad/Japan=good prejudice. Oh well.