In the Were There Really Vomitoriums in Ancient Rome? column, we read A quick on-line search suggests emetophilia has a long way to go before it catches up with Japanese tentacle porn.
This naturally poses the question:
Japanese tentacle porn?
:eek:
What in the Wide, Wide World of Sports is that?
. . . he asks, against his better judgement.
RR
Basically (and extremely simply), its a form of anime (cartoon) hentai, or demon porn - basically your standard japanese schoolgirl being raped in all her orifices by a tentacle wielding demon. A prime example of this is Legend of the Overfiend (don’t worry, mods - it’s a text only escription of the title in question - no nudity - no graphic language)
When will I learn to trust my better judgement? That is why it’s called my better judgement, after all.
Yeesh.
RR
No wonder Cecil didn’t get anywhere searching on “emetophilia.” He should have looked under “Roman shower.”
No, I don’t indulge.
Lorelei
I’d always heard it referred to as refluxophilia, but a google search for that only brings up one reference.
Anyone who watches Howard Stern knows all about this one.There was a particularly unpleasent guy who came on with his psyciatrist and the guy had a woman puke on him several times.
Vomitoriums (or “vomitoria” if you prefer), are still with us in something similar to their original form. In some modern theaters, there are passageways, commonly called “voms,” which disgorge actors onto the downstage areas of a thrust stage or the perimeter of an arena stage. The nomenclature may arise out of whimsy, but it’s used so casually that I think it may just be a really ancient piece of theater jargon.
that is so completely and totally disgusting. shudders
Is it me or are we supposed to search the archives before asking questions?
I happen to remembering helping to answer this question with my one and only post entirely in Latin
The rumor I learned, and I think this was in a high school theatre class, was that the vomitorium was actually a Greek invention. It was employed at the Greek Dionysian theatre, for audience memeber who were so thoroughly disgusted with the onstage gore that they simply had to puick. The story goes that convicts were used as stand-ins for the actors durin murder/violence scenes, as an alternative to special effects. Thus, in Oedipus Rex, when Oedipus gouges out his eyes, an actual convicted murderer would be placed onstage with his eyes actually gouged out. Naturally, some spectator were made a bit queasy by the whole thing, and had to make use of the vomitorium.
Of course, this story is only as true as you want it to be.
Yes, Nemo I, the word “vomitoria” [it’s a neuter plural] for the wide corridors that disgorge people in arenas & theaters does have an ancient provenance. In the late 4th c. C.E the Roman author Macrobius in a discussion of Vergil’s metaphorical use of the word “vomit” to describe rivers etc. compares it to the use in his own time of the word “vomitoria” to describe those corridors. Although the word occurs only in this one sentence, it found its way into architectural writing in English in the 18th century. [Do I sound like someone preparing to present a paper on this topic at a scholarly conference? Sorry. I am, & just joined the forum after someone sent me the url this morning] And yes, today it is the regular word for those large aisles.
Smintheus
Smintheus…already startin to pad the post count huh?? 
I have heard that having anal sex with a woman while she is bent over the toilet while she is puking can be quite a remarkable experience. Apparently when the body is heaving and tensing up from puking, the sphinctor muscle does some pretty increedible contractions.
In order to enjoy it properly though, you must be more sober than your date!
Party on!
Huh?
First of all, Cecil can answer any question he damn well pleases without your permission. This ain’t GQ.
Second, that questionable Latin isn’t any more “helping to answer” the question than it did in the first thread. Or can’t you read it either?
Not to interrupt this incredibly highbrow discussion, but am I correct that Slug screwed up when depicting “Vomitorium” over the building using both a “V” and a “U” ?
[Administrator Hat on] Mr_Larry, welcome to the Straight Dope Message Board, I think we’re glad to have you here, but I hope that you have broader interests than what is reflected in your first post.
This forum is restricted to comments on Cecil’s Column, and this column did mention sexual arousal with respect to vomiting, so your post is on topic, but disgusting… and borderline.
Oh, lighten up, Dex. The whole point is the combat of ignorance, and I for one can say with complete certainty that I learned something from Mr_Larry. Besides, the only rule is, don’t be a jerk. He wasn’t.
flup You are correct that one of the points is to combat ignorance, not spread it. Note that[ b]Mr_Larry** starts out his observation with “I have heard that having …” He heard that. Well, thats fine. I have heard that we never walked on the moon.
What, praytell, did you learn from Mr_Larry that you now know “with complete certainty”?
flup, “don’t be a jerk” is one of the rules, but we have other ones. One of the other ones is that disagreeing with a moderator decision should be voiced in The BBQ Pit forum. Those of you wishing to continue the discussion on this subject should post in that forum.