The year was 1993. I was but a young Misanthrope, bearing a head thick with hair and a distinct dearth of scowl-lines. One night, my buddy E invited me over (we were taking some of the same film courses) to see this HAWT FANTASTIC new movie he'd just gotten imported from the Land of the Rising Sun. Something about an Overfiend...

I am now as I was then - a total film snob. If I've never heard of it, I'm probably interested. So, never having heard of this 'Overfiend' thing, I went with it.

"Just so you know, it's Japanimation," E said, as that was the term used 15+ years back, before it was shortened to anime.

I wasn't a Japanimation aficionado. But I went with it. What the fuck, right?

So the movie starts. And before long, clothes are literally exploding off bubble-chested schoolgirls. E is giddy beyond words. I'm kinda scratching my head, but still going along for the ride.

And then the tentacle-dicks appear. E didn't tell me about the tentacle-dicks. Because he really should have. If there's anything a friend should do for a friend, it's to warn them when tentacle-dicks are about to manifest themselves.

So there I was - 21 and probably fucked up on some illicit substance, sitting back in a WTF-stupor, staring at the parade of tentacle-dicks ravishing the holy Mifune out of the now-naked schoolgirls, lined up like a frakking Ziegfeld review.

E was bouncing about in a state of profound merriment. For my part, I had the distinct feeling that I wasn't taking enough drugs. Srsly - tentacle-dicks?

"Yeah!" squeaked E. "Tentacle-dicks. Srsly!"

Ain't sex grand?

I don't know if this is the true origin of tentacle sex, but in 1820 a Japanese artist by the name of Katsushika Hokusai did a woodcut titled The Fisherman's Wife link that featured a woman and a giant octopus together, ya know doing more than having coffee...

That was the first one I watched - Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend.

I think hentai is hot to watch - the appeal is in being helpless and ravaged. To me it's basically like a gangbang, but with 1 multitentacle-dicked monster instead of 3-20 men surrounding the girl.

According to a documentary on hentai I have watched, tentacles started being used bcs it was not legal to show a woman being penetrated by a man so to fill the gap they added tentacles...something along those lines. Look it up!

Strange enough I just ordered some stickers, among which was one that said:

"I'm actually a tentacle monster trapped in a school girl's body."

Well, I can't speak for everyone with a vagina, but I'd say there are a LOT of things about tentacles that appeal to chicks. The surprise aspect, multiple holes being filled at once, different sensations, and of course a 'taboo' feeling..

Also I'm with MC on whole "real" tentacle porn - I prefer the animated. Sure, maybe it could never happen in real life.. but that's why it's such a great fantasy!

(also, how in the world did I miss this post?! lol)

I, like many others have the 'tentacle fantasy', however for myself it's not so much the anime/hentai fantasy as the realistic tentacle fantasy. Don't get me wrong I'm not about to go out and find some giant squid, but realistic is just that much more real. I find that the idea of having some aquatic creature with tentacles incredibly arousing! Several stong, smooth, perhaps slick or briny that are overpowering you and penetrating you in every way all at once. I also tend to think that it's a big win/win fantasy for my submissive side as well.

I have been into anime and manga for about 11 years now, and one of my first exposures to it prior to my fandom was the same as many people's early exposure--hentai. And a lot of that hentai involved tentacles. For a long time it didn't really work for me. It still doesn't always do it for me, but I love tentacle art from eroge (erotic pc games) and I look at it all the time, hoping to make such great art as some of the art I see. I have lost some of my ability to become aroused from porn, but every now and then, it does it for me. Sometime tentacles do, but in this art, the scenario has to be perfect. In my fantasies, imagining it is difficult as I have a hard time imagining the monster itself if it does not involve anything squid-like. I've long fantasied about multiple partners at once, and this is an interesting way of imagining that...sort of. As someone above said, it does feel "safer" than a human male attacker. I like the idea of a beast that is somewhat mindless and wants nothing more to fill all my orifices. I like the idea of tentacles with texture, pretty colors, variously shaped ends. But mostly, I just like the idea of a tentacle monster. I talk about them so much that my lover wishes he was one now. :'( I kind of hope he gets me that tentacle dildo for a present. I think he has plans to, oh boy! I might even just keep it out as a decorative symbol of my obsession.

Honestly I never really thought about the whole tentacle thing as a fantasy before, but I can definitely see the appeal. I love anime & hentai, and have seen more than my share of scenes with tentacles. But somehow when I watch it, it doesn't hit my brain as being that sexual... it's just awesome and fun!

I see the appeal but I just feel too badly ever dreaming of such a thing. Cephalopods are amazing and I really wish I had a pet octopus or cuttlefish. I do sort of want the tentacle though so maybe the fantasy is hiding just under the surface.

On a weird and semi-related note, Escape Pod just had this bizarre alien sex story where the alien was just a blog and could make new "ins and outs" at will. It was very strange and I did not find that idea very hot.

Whipspider just released a new product: Tentacle Jr.

I want it! It's got my name all over it!

I guess I'm in the minority, lol.

The idea makes me...squelch. Never used that before, but I can't describe it in any other way. My boyfriend loves anime and hentai and he said one clip of a tentacle-fucking scene really disturbed him. I'm scared of octopuses and squid so it's uncomfortable for me to watch. I'm not AFRAID of them. I mean I find them fascinating animals and I love marine biology but if you've ever actually had an octopus tentacle suck your skin...SQUELCH. Again.

But to each her/his own, so go get down with your bad tentacle-loving selves

This reminds me of that scene from, oh dang, what was that movie with Jessica Alba and Billy Crudup? The Sci-fi one... something "..... men" maybe? Anyhow, in one scene he had all these hands and he was touching her. Very hot!

want a sneak peak?

I've seen some pictures on it, but the idea terrifies me, and I can't say I'm interested D:

Oh boy, oh boy! Tentacle sale!!