# What's wrong with tentacle hentai? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 15, 2008, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-tentacle-hentai/445501 "2008-04-15T21:51:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-tentacle-hentai/445501/81 "2008-04-17T06:00:40Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] Wrong Davy. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Given the Davy that was intended, I couldn’t help but feel that it was the wrong Goliath. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-tentacle-hentai/445501/82 "2008-04-17T10:41:01Z")
I’m old and from bible belt Texas to boot. As such, I ain’t never in my entire life heard of no tentacle hentai but now I’ve done googled it. That is some strange shit and its got to be the product of a twisted mind. I think I might like it. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-tentacle-hentai/445501/83 "2008-04-17T13:37:31Z")
In all the books I’ve seen they all use the hackney device of telling the story backwards. What’s up with that? (he he he) ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-tentacle-hentai/445501/84 "2008-04-17T21:57:22Z")
This thread is really putting me off calamari. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-tentacle-hentai/445501/85 "2008-04-17T22:06:10Z")
So what was on the front page of the second section of the San Francisco Chronicle this morning but a bold headline (with lurid color photo) about [octopus sex](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2008/04/17/BAGF1060FF.DTL&o=0). Warning: NSFW…if you’re a mollusk. ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-tentacle-hentai/445501/86 "2008-04-17T22:23:43Z")
[QUOTE=kaylasdad99] Given the Davy that was intended, I couldn’t help but feel that it was the wrong Goliath. [/QUOTE] Gee, Davy, I dunno about licking up that peanut butter. ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-tentacle-hentai/445501/87 "2008-04-17T22:48:10Z")
The Japanese penchant for tentacle porn Is not shared completely by those of us born West of the self-proclaimed land of the morn In fact some of us feel a duty to warn Raping small children with overlarge breasts (An action humanity loathes and detests) Transcends the _means_ by which such lines are transgressed What tool matters not - it’s a sickening quest. On this issue many won’t grade on a curve, If you, a nice guy, feel that you don’t deserve The calumny thrown your way, you’ve got some nerve The rape, not the tentacle, makes you a perv. So titillate us with a story at sea a bad tarot reading, bald voyeur, and me A manicure funny, clean and drug-free and giving the business to some _willing_ she. A teacher of English, a Mormon no doubt On leave from her college and not so devout She can’t help but stop my heart with a mere pout and porcelain Hummels scattered about. Oh, and a velocipede adapted for frozen lakes. Um, I _shout_. Which would be — Pentacle-chronicle-(hardly canonical)- Barnacle-spectacle-ogled-through-monocle- By-someone’s-uncle-with-a-carbuncle- (But very few follicles - how diabolical)- Ridicule-cuticle-nonpharmaceutical- Maybe-a-particle-definite-article- Surely-grammatical-though-on-sabbatical- Rupturing-ventricle-under-the-clavicle- Threatens-debacle-in-the-Tabernacle- For-my-concepticle-and-her-collectibles- Among-all-the-icicles:-that’s-not-a-tricycle- Bicycle-nothing-that-some-snotty-tyke’ll- Ride-around-face-dripping-with-sticky-treacle- No-it’s-a-_fin-de-siecle_-vehicle porn. ---
**Author:** ![Eben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a8b319/32.png) [@Eben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eben)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-tentacle-hentai/445501/88 "2008-04-17T22:56:14Z")
Brilliant **The King of Soup**! Absolutely brilliant. -Eben ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2008, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-tentacle-hentai/445501/89 "2008-04-18T01:15:01Z")
> [@neutron star](#): > > “I’m not a sick fuck because some fucks are even sicker” is not a valid defense. > > “But it’s only mostly violent, degrading rape!” isn’t much better. OK, really, what’s the big deal if someone faps to violent cartoon porn on the Internet? People can enjoy movies about serial killers without being sociopaths. Or would you rather some people _not_ vent their secret lust for violent sex through watching cartoons? Think about it: every person fapping to violent cartoon sex could be fapping to real violent sex, and someone out there fapping to real violent sex may be one psychotic break away from committing real violent sex. As far as I’m concerned, people with those urges _should_ be getting them out with their hand and their mouse button, and the further away it is from actual rape, the better. Yes, it squicks me out too, but there are much worse ways a rape-fetishist could be spending his Friday night. > [@Autolycus](#): > > I just don’t think that either a strict Christian interpretation or an anything-goes viewing of La Blue Girl is the best way to go about it. IOW, nobody should watch La Blue Girl, and you get to accomplish the same ends while still claiming not to take the “strict Christian interpretation”. > [@puppygod](#): > > If I ever meet some alien tentacle I would empty two magazines into it and set it on fire before realizing it was just asking about the way to the grocery store. This, in fact, is the exact reason I carry two assault rifles with two spare magazines for each and a flamethrower with a full fuel tank with me when I go to the grocery store. You can’t be too safe. > [@Harmonious Discord](#): > > Seeing as the sex organ on an octopus is a tentacle, they are showing penetration by the sex organ. I’m pretty sure most tentacle porn isn’t actually about octopodes. BTW, the thing that annoys me the most about vore is that it seems to have taken over the MUD world. It’s a little weird that even mainstream MUD ranking sites have furry vore sites in their top 10 from time to time. ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2008, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-tentacle-hentai/445501/90 "2008-04-18T03:53:37Z")
> [@Hostile Dialect](#): > > OK, really, what’s the big deal if someone faps to violent cartoon porn on the Internet? People can enjoy movies about serial killers without being sociopaths. Or would you rather some people not vent their secret lust for violent sex through watching cartoons? Think about it: every person fapping to violent cartoon sex could be fapping to real violent sex, and someone out there fapping to real violent sex may be one psychotic break away from committing real violent sex. As far as I’m concerned, people with those urges should be getting them out with their hand and their mouse button, and the further away it is from actual rape, the better. Fantasies are just that, fantasies, not real life. Porn is an extension of fantasy. I don’t know about you all but I wouldn’t want everything I’ve fantasied about to become reality. I’m sure there is some correlation between people who have violent fantasies and people who are violent in real life, but that doesn’t mean that someone who likes tentacle porn would actually really enjoy a woman getting violated by an octopus (or anything/anybody else for that matter). Heck, if you take the sex out of it, how many horrible revenge fantasies do we see poured out in this very forum? People have destructive impulses, violence is one of them. Normal people control those impulses. Personally, I think that most people are a lot freakier in their heart of hearts than they would care to have others believe. There is not just an amazing breadth of different weird fetishes and desires out there for all to see on the 'net, but there is just _so much of everything_. > [@](#): > > BTW, the thing that annoys me the most about vore is that it seems to have taken over the MUD world. It’s a little weird that even mainstream MUD ranking sites have furry vore sites in their top 10 from time to time. There aren’t a lot of reasons to play MUDs anymore unless you’re one for nostalgia or you’re a furry. And I say that as an active participant of one. [No, I’m not a furry.](http://www.anguish.org/) ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2008, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-tentacle-hentai/445501/91 "2008-04-18T05:35:23Z")
> [@fluiddruid](#): > > Fantasies are just that, fantasies, not real life. Porn is an extension of fantasy. I don’t know about you all but I wouldn’t want everything I’ve fantasied about to become reality. I’m sure there is some correlation between people who have violent fantasies and people who are violent in real life, but that doesn’t mean that someone who likes tentacle porn would actually really enjoy a woman getting violated by an octopus (or anything/anybody else for that matter). That’s exactly what I’m saying, actually. That it’s really no big deal if someone faps to violent cartoon porn on the Internet. And that having a healthy fantasy life is one of many reasons that those fantasies never become anything more than fantasies. Some people here are spooling up piano wire and getting ready to hang anyone who’s ever gotten off on a kind of Internet porn they didn’t like, and that seems like a much more disturbing fantasy to me. YMMV. > [@fluiddruid](#): > > Heck, if you take the sex out of it, how many horrible revenge fantasies do we see poured out in this very forum? Which is one aspect of my movie analogy. We often watch violent movies and feel a catharsis that most of us would never seek in real life–how many people really _want_ to get in a shootout with a drug cartel? Hell, take role-playing games: how many people really _want_ to slash through all manner of creatures with a sword just for some treasure? How is playing GTA on the same moral level as stealing real cars and running down real people? I’m asking these questions because those who find these fantasies sick and immoral, and claim that they think it’s wrong for people to look at the stuff, must be equating the actual watching of the porn with the crime of rape itself. It can’t be that they believe that downloading the porn supports alien tentacle rape on the other end, because alien tentacle rape doesn’t happen in real life. (That would be a serviceable argument against violent live-action porn.) They must believe either that the mere existence and enjoyment of this porn will cause sex crimes (which I don’t think is reasonable, for reasons I’ve already stated) or that the enjoyment of such material is actually equivalent, or almost equivalent, to actual rape on a moral level, which is absurd. > [@fluiddruid](#): > > There aren’t a lot of reasons to play MUDs anymore unless you’re one for nostalgia or you’re a furry. That’s unfortunately true. Very few MUDs outside of the weird sex fetishes and the copycat Circle/Merc D&D-based stuff are around anymore with decent uptime and service and a decent playerbase. C’est la vie. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2008, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-tentacle-hentai/445501/92 "2008-04-18T13:06:56Z")
[QUOTE=Eben] IMO the worst thing about tentacle hentai is that it spawned non-hentai tentacle porn. That stuff is horrid! [/QUOTE] That stuff is [DEL]horrid[/DEL] hilarious! (Fixed your typo) Every time I come across one of those I keep thinking of the movie Ed Wood, when Bela Lugosi is stuck in that cold lake “battling off” the octopus monster. Is this supposed to be sexy? ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-tentacle-hentai/445501/93 "2008-04-21T15:32:19Z")
[QUOTE=bbs2k] I keep thinking of the movie Ed Wood, when Bela Lugosi is stuck in that cold lake “battling off” the octopus monster. [/QUOTE] fap fap fap fap fap [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-tentacle-hentai/445501.md?page=4)