Itchy Octopus

[nfotxn]

The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife (蛸と海女 Tako to ama?) is an erotic woodcut of the ukiyo-e genre made around 1820 by the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai. Perhaps the first instance of tentacle eroticism, it depicts a woman entwined sexually with a pair of octopuses, the smaller of which wraps one of its tentacles around the woman's nipple and kisses her, while the larger one performs cunnilingus. Hokusai created The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife during the Edo period in when Shinto was making a resurgence; this influenced the piece's animism and playful attitude towards sexuality. It is a celebrated example of shunga and has been reworked by a number of artists. Similar themes of human females having sexual intercourse with sea life have been displayed since the 17th century in Japanese netsuke, small carved sculptures only a few inches in height and often extremely elaborate.

Those Japanese and their tentacle rape. Largely a by-product of censorship where a penis cannot be shown penetrating a woman... but a tentacle is AOK. This is a case where one can make an argument in favour of the suppression of images.

Comments

[foodpoisoningsf.livejournal.com]

Just try dating an octopus. Talk about elusive. And they're way too smart.

[nfotxn.livejournal.com]

Octopuses creep me out. You look at them and it's not intelligence per-say, it's like some sort of completely parallel way of thinking. The same way a robot designed to kill would clearly have no emotions.

[pensivegargoyle.livejournal.com]

Octopuses get bored.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/15/AR2006081500916.html

[pirateseasick.livejournal.com]

I was looking at the wikipedia article about this the other day, actually. I can't even recall why :D How odd. Never had seen that commercial before though. I think the octopus is fascinating, and enjoy its cartoon depiction. This one looks like the cousin of the Hokusai duo:

I need to dig out that CD now.

[hiro256.livejournal.com]

LoL

http://sexylosers.com/016.html (http://sexylosers.com/016.html)

Well...

[pxtl.livejournal.com]

If we're going to talk anime tentacle monsters and web comics, then we have to reference fellow Hamiltonian, Ghastly (ghastlycomic.com).