Tentacle Rape Roundup

When I began this post months ago BSD was back on the front page of Google's Tentacle Rape results and clocking in at number 9. We're since gone again.  With some of our former slimy glory gone here's my attempt to reclaim what's been lost. (As always my tentacle interaction is tainted with some Lovecraft lovin' so please forgive any variations in the follow.)

Before the future of BSDs Tentacle Rape is taken any further I'd like to give you a brief history of Tentacle Rape.  In the 1820s Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai produced an erotic woodcut called The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife.  In it a woman is sexually taken by two octopi, a larger and smaller.  Not until years later would Tentacle Erotica reemerge in Japanese culture.

The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife

In 1987 in an attempt to dodge Japanese pornography laws which prohibited the depiction of animated phalluses Toshio Maeda created the tentacle rape monster.  (Similar laws brought about the creation of Bukkake in Japanese porno as well.)  No phalluses, just tentacles.  This new incarnation of tentacle rape premiered in Urotsukidoji and quickly found a cult following.

In the 90s and 00s with the advent of the internet there was a dual flood of Anime among it and friendless teenagers alike.  Two things Matt and I have spent a lot of time with.  We were fated to come into contact with TR eventually, and reluctantly we did.  Now with everything up to speed on tot he round-up!

Someone at Threadless Tees combined what BSD most likes (SciFi) with what it most hates (T-shirts?) to illustrate the danger of sending octopuses into space. 

I was surprised and delighted when I saw that Jones Soda made a Barack Obama flavored pop.  I was less delighted and much more shocked when I saw that Mnemosyne made a Tentacle Grape flavored pop.  

SomethingAwful.com' Photoshop Phriday are working to make sure even Tentacle's are conscious and aware of safer sex habits.  Introducing the Rape-Tentacle Strength Condom!

Artist Rune Olsen may have accidently created one of the most impressive and beautiful works of Tentacle Rape since The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife.

Some things should never exist.  Like this, the complete works of HP. Lovcraft online.  Truly a horror of unspeakable measure.    

The Perry Bible Fellowship (one of the internets greatest webcomics) has a Cthulhu inspired strip that is just as scary and much more realistic than anything Lovecraft ever wrote.  All hair Zuthulu!

Until next time have a happy tentacle~

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