Tentacle Porn
Boing Boing has a good round-up of tentacle porn-related links today. I studied ukiyo-e (Japanese woodblock prints) as an undergraduate, and we saw a lot of tentacle porn. I wrote a paper tracing the use of erotic violence in Japanese art from Yoshitoshi to Merzbow. I like that certain outlandish themes in Japanese art and entertainment have continued for hundreds of years from woodblock prints to computer-generated anime. Of course, no roundup of tentacle porn is complete without including a piece in my own backyard, at the Albany Bulb: