Fact: Japanese tentacle porn dates back to the 18th century.

[Star of Penumbra]

Here's proof.

A girl diver (ama), wearing nothing but a grass skirt is being ravished by an octopus. The creature's tentacles ensnares her legs and two of them curl about her breasts. She is making a token resistance but the arc of her neck, her hair tumbling down her back and the expression of pleasure on her face indicate her real feelings. Any ambiguity over the matter is dismissed when the piece is closely examined: it is possible by locking between the parted tentacles of the octopus, to see that the skirt by no means completely covers the girl, and that the embraces of the mollusc are far from displeasing.

Japanese art has always delighted in depicting women pearl divers being embraced by octopuses. Generally they are shown warding off the creature's blandishments but with this example the suggestion is that she is enjoying its attentions.

 

[Mona Lisa]

I know it's awfully early in the day, but I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that this is likely to be the most disturbing thing I read all day.

And I had just recovered from the live-action tentacle porn a friend inflicted upon me.

 

[Cibo]

You read Fark, don't you?

 

[superlittlegirl]

So what's more disturbing? Tentacle porn or the cruel-devices that are based on tentacle porn? I've seen only a little bit of hentai, but it was enough to make me cover my eyes with my hands and watch through the cracks between my fingers.

 

[Star of Penumbra]

You read Fark, don't you?

 

[MechaBlade]

Oh my.

(Not sure I would classify that as evidence of tentacle porn, but perhaps a precursor)

 

[Guest]

I thought Japanese porn goes back to prehistory and stone ages.

They have nice, smooth, flint-curved wooden dildos.

 

[Monazwx]

I am now confused.

 

[Guest]

Lisa is the one with all the brain, isn't she.

 

[Star of Penumbra]

I am now confused.

'Bout what?