It’s been long established that Japan is a nation of sexual perverts. Of course, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that, as it certainly makes things more interesting. However, there is one genre of sexual imagery here for which even I have been unable to gain an appreciation: tentacle rape porn (or shokushu in Japanese).

How anyone could get any kind of arousal from watching doe-eyed cartoon characters being furiously violated by slimy alien tentacles is beyond me. My assumption had always been that the reasoning behind the creation of this particularly peculiar genre of anime was to attempt to bypass Japanese censorship laws that forbid the depiction of genitalia, however, it appears there is a historical precedent for this kind of artwork.

Behold, The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife (1814) by renowned ukiyo-e artist Hokusai (left) and Abalone Fisherwoman with Octopus (c. 1880 – 1890) by an unknown artist (right):

Who knew that tentacle porn had such a long and storied history?

For the sake of comparison, here are two examples of modern shokushu found via a Google image search:

Hot stuff, eh?

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