Hentai- Japanese for HOT!
...Sometimes the best finds of a day are the most unlikely; while surfing this weekend I discover this Hentai site and was fascinated.
“Hentai is an artistic expression of pornography in Japan. As opposed to photographic pornography, hentai allows full use of the imagination as well as scenes that run counter to accepted society and culture. Elements of sexual fantasy are represented in ways that would be impossible to film, even with a dedicated special effects budget.
Unlike in the West, the line between adult content and mainstream works is somewhat blurred in Japan. Children’s anime can depict nude characters, for example in Sailor Moon it is implied that the girls are nude during their transformation. Many artists add nudity as fanservice. However, hentai tends to use explicit pornographic content. The word “hentai” is based on the words, “hen” meaning unusual or strange and “tai” meaning desire or wish.”
“As a form of expressing sexual fantasy, depictions can include those which are unacceptable in society, or run counter to social norms. Such fantasies can be depicted in the extreme, often demonstrating subconscious desires and purely carnal motivations. This contrast between accepted human society and primal sexuality is often a primary turn on for those who live a normal, day to day life. While a male might fantasize internally about having sex with an attractive female seen on the way to work, he would not act on that without legal repercussion and moral condemnation; hentai exists as the main outlet for such fantasies. ” (Wikipedia)
To me it is not so much the erotic nature of the images but the unique window into Japanese society and sexuality. This stuff is both fun and a turn on.
