jwz: Alarming Experience of Fair Bathers Who Are Attacked by an Octopus, 1896

Alarming Experience of Fair Bathers Who Are Attacked by an Octopus, 1896

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Tags: boobs, fashion, perversions, tentacles

14 Responses:

Cat Mara says:

5 years ago at 1:53 pm

"Excuse me, can you spare five minutes to talk about Our Lord And Savior, Great Cthulhu?"
japhomatic says:

5 years ago at 2:08 pm

Earliest tentacle porn, maybe? Cool. Coincidentally, all four bathers just happen to have, um, rather huge tracts of land...
- Cat Mara says:
  
  5 years ago at 2:31 pm
  
  Tentacle porn is way older: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_of_the_Fisherman%27s_Wife?wprov=sfla1
  - japhomatic says:
    
    5 years ago at 1:25 am
    
    Holy smokes, I had no idea--1814 or even earlier (depending on the cultural origins in local myths and fables). Thanks for the reference!
    - Cat Mara says:
      
      5 years ago at 8:18 am
      
      I've seen some folk trying to claim modern tentacle porn as some kind of continuation of a venerable tradition of hawt lady-on-cephalopod action in Japanese erotica, but it was more likely cooked up as a way of getting around Japan's strict no-depictions-of-penetration rule:
      
      Censor: You heard me, filthmonger! You're not to show penises going into vaginas or asses without pixelation! Or there'll be trouble (pats Japanese law book smugly)
      Hentai director: What if it wasn't penises. though? Like, what if it was, I dunno, tentacles or something?
      Censor (leafing franticly through law book): It says nothing about tentacles. Not that anyone would be that deprave-- hey! Why are you asking?
      Hentai director: Oh, no reason (walks off, whistling innocently)
      - bibulb says:
        
        5 years ago at 12:17 pm
        
        [why_not_both.gif]
- jwz says:
  
  5 years ago at 2:32 pm
  
  Given the octopus anatomy on display, I have no reason to doubt the historical accuracy of the mammalian component.
  
  Also the Japanese surely have prior art.
- Elusis says:
  
  5 years ago at 10:32 pm
  
  It was the style at the time.
robert_ says:

5 years ago at 2:28 pm

I think the octopus looks more scared than the women.
mr_mercer says:

5 years ago at 4:01 pm

Were women drowning in those stupid Victorian bathing gowns on the regular? Were they ever "a thing" outside the US Northeast coast and England? If a wave knocked you over in one of those you'd have no hope of swimming back to shore even if you were a strong swimmer. Even the weird wool full body bathing suits the men wore must have been dangerous.
- @ndy says:
  
  5 years ago at 4:28 pm
  
  People were clearly made of sterner stuff back then!
  
  In my day we had to walk to the beach and back in a soggy bathing suit.
  - mr_mercer says:
    
    5 years ago at 4:57 pm
    
    There are a bunch of records of American men dropping dead of heatstroke because they'd refuse to remove their wool dress jackets/uniforms. Happened a lot during the civil war. They'd apparently failed to notice they weren't in Northern Europe and wool suits weren't a great idea for most of the year.
  - the hatter says:
    
    5 years ago at 11:43 am
    
    I understand walking home in a soggy bathing suit, but two possibilities come to mind of why you were walking to the beach in such a state. Between them, cruel and unfortunate, but don't feel that you have to explain.
Menard Ochothorpez Puggs says:

5 years ago at 11:40 am

Summer is very bright indeed when filtered through the growth and flowering of a bloody mary. Thanks for sharing. I have a spare thought for the provenance of the art here and in the Pryor/Feldman superhero comic which can wait a few centuries.