I’m putting this in the pit to start as I’m sure it would end up here anyway. Plus I think everyone should speak there minds openly in the particular discussion.
So…
What’s wrong with someone watching tentacle hentai cartoon porn? As opposed to other types of porn, cartoon or otherwise.
-Eben
Wow I must be getting old, I have no idea what you’re talking about and i got to be honest I really don’t want to know what porn has to do with tentacles.
Beastiality with ocotopi?
Who said it was wrong?
How do I put this? The Japanese have a very strange form of porn, which I avoid as it freaketh me the hell out. Usually, it shows schoolsgirls with DDD breasts being multiple-orifice raped by mobs of tentacles. It’s possibly the single most grotesque fantasy ever entertained by man.
Is there a particular thread that’s caused this question to come up? Or are you just looking at responses to tentacle hentai in the internet community at large?
There’s nothing inherently wrong with tentacle porn. If that gets you off, good on you. Tentacles aren’t anything more than huge (slimy) phallic symbols anyway.
But tentacles are also inherently animalistic - octopi, squid - not really something most people think “Mmm, sexy” about. Also, see the slimy (and boneless) comment. To most people, that’s kind of icky. And in the internet community at large, people aren’t shy about showing their disgust for things that other people find involving.
If you get off on small japanese girls being violated by slimy psuedopods the size of their bodies, good on you. Don’t worry about what anyone else thinks.
ETA:
I dispute that fact - babyfur diaper vore.
Well… you could say that it’s because it generally depicts non-consensual sex, but then you could say that about roughly 90% of all hentai of any type. Myself, I don’t think it’s wrong, I just don’t think it’s very sexy.
Hey, whatever floats your boat. I get turned on by a lot of stuff, but watching a woman being pleasured by a gigantic octopus/squid/other tentacled creature kinda makes me queasy.
Unless it’s Cthulhu.
It’s not simply that it’s non-consensual, IMNSHO. It’s that the victims in the examples I saw were raped to death, in a most graphic manner. It squicks me right out, and I tend to look askance at people who admit to enjoying watching it. It’s just too misogynistic for me to view as being the same thing as watching so-called normal porn.
That qualifier about normal porn is there because I have pretty much the same reaction to rape porn, and fantasy snuff, too.
Cthulhu is hung like an Old One.
Oh, smiling bandit, you innocent little scamp. You have so much yet to learn, to live, to recoil in horror from…
I think the problem is that it de-sensitizes you to the point where, if you see someone actually being raped by some purple alien tentacle, you’re much less likely to call the police, or help out.
Hence the widespread call for tentacle samaritan laws.
If you start that argument again I swear I will smite you with the fiery wrath of Og. Og just discovered fire, so his wrath is especially fiery now. It may cool down a bit later.
I have two problems with tentacle hentai. The first is pretty straightforward: it’s usually a form of rape porn, and non-consensual sex is a major turn-off for me. Second, the aethetics of tentacles are themselves unappealing to me. In fact, I find them to be really disgusting looking. Hence: not sexy.
I don’t think that makes it “wrong,” in a moral/ethical sense. It just makes it something I really don’t like. But it doesn’t bother me if other people are into it.
Just for example, I talked (briefly) with someone who was eagerly waiting for Charles Ng to be executed - because he thought that might mean that he could use FOIA requests to get a hold of the videotapes that Ng and Lake made of their victims. :eek:
<Tasteful Applause Inserted Here>
<Along With Tentacles>
Mmm, sushi!
Yeah, this is about where I’d get iffy too. I don’t have any general issues against porn of any type, but people dying kinda kills the fantasy methinks.
Pun not intended.
I saw the viewing of it used as a hypothetical action to refer to someone in a demeaning manner in another pit thread.
My take is that thinking it’s horrible enough that anyone watching it is a serious deviant shows that the person making the statement doesn’t understand true horror. Now if it’s just about it being cartoony, then that’s different.
-Eben
I agree with this point. Unfortunately it’s a mis-charactarization of the genre. It’s like saying all movies are about dying. Many (most?) are, but that doesn’t mean that it’s fair to hate on movies as a category for it.
-Eben
p.s. Egads! Am I publicly defending tentacle hentai?!?