Hentai (変態 or へんたい, Hentai^?) listen (help· info) is a Japanese word that can be used to mean "metamorphosis" or "abnormality". In Japan "hentai" has a negative connotation, and is commonly used to mean "sexually perverted". In the West the term is used as slang for sexually explicit or pornographic comics and animation, particularly Japanese anime, manga and computer games (see Japanese pornography). Image File history File links Hentai. ... For other uses, see Word (disambiguation). ... A cicada in the process of shedding. ... Porn redirects here. ... Animé redirects here. ... This article is about the comics created in Japan. ... Computer and video games redirects here. ... Japanese pornography has some unique features which separate it from pornography in other cultures, especially Western pornography. ...

In Japan sexually explicit material is more often referred to as "jū hachi kin" (18禁; prohibited for sale to persons under 18), "ecchi/Hentai anime" (sexual/pornographic anime), "seinen" (成年; adult, not to be confused with 青年 young adult), or with the prefix "ero-|エロ". Hentai anime and manga allow elements of sexual fantasy to be represented in ways that would be impossible to film. This may include portrayals of sexual acts which are physically impossible, unacceptable in society, or run counter to social norms. Examples include extreme bondage, creatures with tentacles, and other fetishes. Shunga artists like Yoshitoshi and Kuniyoshi showed gang rape, erotic crucifixion, and even forced late third-trimester abortions by a "cannibal witch." Ecchi (from the Japanese エッチ etchi) is an English word deriving from a Japanese word meaning lewd or naughty when used as an adjective, and can refer to a pervert or sexual intercourse when used as a noun. ... Animé redirects here. ... Seinen not to be confused with adult )) is a subset of manga that is generally targeted at an 18–30 year old male audience, but the audience can be much older with some comics aimed at businessmen well into their 40s. ... The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife, an 1820 Hokusai woodcut depicting a woman engaging in sex with a pair of octopodes. ... Shunga ) is a Japanese term for erotic pictures. ... Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Owariya Yonejiro): 1839 - 1892 Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839 - June 9, 1892) (Japanese: 月岡 芳年; also named Taiso Yoshitoshi 大蘇 芳年) was the last great master - and one of the great innovative and creative geniuses - of the Japanese woodblock print, Ukiyo-e. ... Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese: 歌川国芳) (1798 - 1861) was one of the last great masters of the Japanese woodblock print. ...

The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife, a shunga (erotic) woodcut made circa 1820 by Hokusai.

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Meaning of the word

In the 1914 translation of Richard von Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis, "psychology of abnormal sexuality" was rendered in Japanese as 『変態性慾心理』 (Hentai Seiyoku Shinri). Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing with his wife Marie Luise Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing[1] (August 14, 1840 – December 22, 1902) was an Austro-German psychiatrist who wrote Psychopathia Sexualis (1886), a famous study of sexual perversity, and remains well-known for his coinage of the term sadism (after... Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing with his wife Marie Luise Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing[1] (August 14, 1840 – December 22, 1902) was an Austro-German psychiatrist who wrote Psychopathia Sexualis (1886), a famous study of sexual perversity, and remains well-known for his coinage of the term sadism (after...

In Japanese the word hentai is a kanji compound of 変 (hen meaning "change" "weird" or "strange") and 態 (tai meaning "attitude" or "appearance"). The term is used as a shortened form of the phrase 変態性欲 (hentai seiyoku), or "sexual perversion." In slang, 変態 (hentai) is used as an insult meaning roughly "pervert" or "weirdo". The term is not often applied to pornography in Japan. Instead, terms such as 18-kin (18禁, literally "18-prohibited") meaning "prohibited to those not yet 18 years old", and seijin manga (成人漫画 "adult manga") are used when referring to pornography. The English letters AV are also used, standing for adult video. Japanese writing Kanji Kana Hiragana Katakana Hentaigana Manyōgana Uses Furigana Okurigana Rōmaji   ) are the Chinese characters that are used in the modern Japanese logographic writing system along with hiragana (平仮名), katakana (片仮名), and the Arabic numerals. ...

The English use of "hentai" is more similar to the way the Japanese use the slang term エッチ (H, etchi, often spelled ecchi), which refers to any sexually explicit content or behavior. Etchi is simply the spelling-out of the Japanese pronunciation of the letter H. The origins of this term are uncertain, but it may be a shortened form of hentai used as a polite codeword in the 1960s. The word ecchi is etymologically derived from the Japanese pronunciation of the letter H, the first letter of the word hentai (and is often written as such). ... Ecchi (from the Japanese エッチ etchi) is an English word deriving from a Japanese word meaning lewd or naughty when used as an adjective, and can refer to a pervert or sexual intercourse when used as a noun. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969. ...

"H" in Japan is now broadly used to refer to all sexual content or activity, so "H manga" are manga with sexual content. Also, the term "ero" (エロ), short for "erotic" but closer in meaning to "porn", is now used more often instead of "H".

Exactly how the term hentai came to refer to all sexually explicit content in American anime fandom is unknown. With the rise of the World Wide Web, however, the term was extensively promoted by pornographic sites selling access to (frequently bootlegged) erotic manga. Banner ads promoting these sites might, for instance advertise "live girls and hentai", with the latter meaning erotic manga as opposed to photographs. Compare otaku for another word altered somewhat in this transition. WWWs historical logo designed by Robert Cailliau The World Wide Web (commonly shortened to the Web) is a system of interlinked, hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. ... A web banner or banner ad is a form of advertising on the World Wide Web. ... Otaku ) is a derisive Japanese term used to refer to people with obsessive interests in manga, anime or hentai. ...

Hentai classification

There are two main categories of hentai: works that feature mainly heterosexual interactions (often abbreviated "het" by its readers), and those which feature mainly homosexual interactions. This second group can be further split into yaoi and yuri styles. Yaoi refers to homosexual male pairings, and yuri to lesbian pairings. Cover of Selfish Love by Naduki Koujima. ... Dealing with the romance between an average blonde and a stately brunette at a girls boarding school, Shiroi Heya no Futari, the first yuri manga,[1] established archetypes that can be seen even in yuri works of recent years. ... Homosexuality refers to sexual interaction and / or romantic attraction between individuals of the same sex. ... This article is about same-sex desire and sexuality among women. ...

Yaoi commonly features males of ambiguous gender in both physical appearance and mannerisms called bishōnen, which literally means "pretty boy". Some feature biseinen ("beautiful man"), males of more masculine appearance than bishōnen. Less common are bara--larger, often heavily muscled and sometimes hairy males, the yaoi counterpart of the traditional "bear" in gay pornography, as well as oyaji ("daddy" or "uncle"), featuring middle-aged and elderly men. Yaoi also exists outside of the hentai genre, since it is an ambiguous term that is applied to any form of anime that includes male homosexuality. However, it is different from shōnen-ai (literally, "boy-love"), in which two males simply express romantic feelings for each other and never actually have sexual relations. Women interested in Yaoi are called "Fujoshi" (腐女子), which means "Rotten girl" or "Rotten Woman." Gender in common usage refers to the sexual distinction between male and female. ... Bishōnen (美少年, literally, beautiful boy) is a specific Japanese aesthetic concept of the ideally beautiful young man. ... The International Bear Brotherhood Flag designed by Paul Witzkoske for Bear Manufacturing The Bear community is a subculture in the gay community. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... In the Japanese language, oyaji (親父, おやじ, オヤジ) is an informal word meaning dad. It is a juvenile linguistic corruption of oyachichi (親父), which means father. The word, used to describe ones father, is very rough and not polite, and its use is usually confined to men. ... “Boys Love” redirects here. ...

Yuri is very similar to yaoi, except that the focus is on homosexual female interactions, and the females in a typical yuri illustration or animation tend to be far less realistic than the males in yaoi. The females in yuri are known as "bishōjo," which, predictably, translates as "pretty girl". Shōjo-ai ("girl love") is an western term for the female equivalent of shōnen-ai; these works, though, are called yuri too in Japan. The bishōjo style of cartooning uses large, limpid eyes for increased cuteness, as in the character of Nyuu from Elfen Lied. ...

The scope of hentai encompasses the entire range of sexual fetishes, including: Two women in handcuffs and latex miniskirts and tops - Latex and PVC fetishism Wikinews has related news: Dr. Joseph Merlino on sexuality, insanity, Freud, fetishes and apathy Sexual fetishism is the sexual attraction for material and terrestrial objects while in reality the essence of the object is inanimate and sexless. ...

• Bakunyū, the depiction of women with large breasts. Literally translated to "bursting breasts".
• BDSM, focusing on domination through use of ropes, tools, sex toys, and elaborate devices. Themes can include empowerment, restriction, and submitting to sexual urges.
• Bestiality
• Breast-oriented torture and Breast bondage, BDSM practices focusing on breasts, many times coupled with Bakunyuu, but usually not as severe as Guro.
• Bukkake, a common representation of a female having as many males as possible ejaculate on her. Often depicted in public or in areas with a large number of males present.
• Coprophilial and urolagnial is fairly common in hentai as well. But is portrayed in more exaggerated forms, such as bowel movements that border on elephant size to over-the-top scenes of enema play that are more cartoonish.
• Deformity
• Ecchi, focusing on nudity, partial nudity, and provocative clothing rather than pure sex.
• Exhibitionism, often non-consensual, often taken to illogical (hours of public nudity without any police interference, for example) extremes.
• Futanari (Futa), a depiction of females who have some form of male genitalia. Occasionally, the size of the penis and/or testicles is inflated to proportions that are physically impossible. The male genitalia can also come from inside the vagina, or right above it, in the latter case this creates a female body with both sexes.
• Guro, focusing on imaginative gore and mutilation.
• Incest, sex with a close family member.
• Klismaphilia, erotic enema play, usually used in BDSM scenarios. It is sometimes followed by "belly expansion"
• Koonago, where women are shrunk down and endure a variety of torture
• Erotic lactation
• Lolicon, depicts prepubescent or preadolescent girls.
• Maiesiophilia
• Omorashi (オモラシ / おもらし / お漏らし, Omorashi^?) in which individuals struggle with a full bladder before finally wetting themselves.
• Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror
• Shotacon, the depiction of young boys having intercourse, depicting young boys with older women, known as "straight shota" in western jargon.
• Tentacle sex, the depiction of tentacled creatures or monsters (imaginative or otherwise, also includes alien like creatures) engaging in sex or rape with girls and less often men

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Hentai media

• Adult anime, or H anime, is anime that relies primarily on sex aka pornographic.
• Adult manga, or H Manga, is manga designed for purely pornographic purposes. Plot is still used to develop character and setting, but most of the time, the ultimate goal is to show scenes of sexuality with few exceptions. Adult manga is often sold in convenience stores, book stores, and magazine stores in Japan, and also other public places such as airports, and is far more prolific and accessible than the US adult comic book market. It is usually distributed in digest format, containing several stories by different artists.
• Adult CG artwork includes individual drawings by artists. Art can be available on websites, CD-ROMs, or in printed art books. CG artwork is used frequently in adult video games.
• Adult video games, or eroge, are games with a pornographic element. They can include bishoujo games that involve character driven plots, and can exist as sex simulations.
• Adult Dōjinshi, or H dōjinshi, refers to a type of work that uses copyrighted characters presented in sexual situations. It usually refers to printed manga, but can also refer to any type of visual work depicting copyrighted characters, including video games, animation, and CG artwork. Familiarity with a particular character or setting can add a sense of relating to the character over a generic character used in mainstream hentai, making dōjinshi more appealing to fans of a particular work. Despite not representing characters and licensed properties as intended, companies often view these works as a free form of license recognition and advertising through dedicated fandom. Some mangakas create hentai dojinshi with characters from their own manga, such as Kazushi Hagiwara, who himself created Bastard - Expansion, a pornographic dōjin with characters from Bastard!!.
• In Western fanfiction circles, hentai-based works are popularly referred to as "lemon," based on a more popular hentai title called Cream Lemon. Fictions referred to as "Lime" are ones in which the characters do everything short of having sexual intercourse with each other. In Japan, the works may be referred to as "lemon" or "pink" ("pink" having sexual connotations similar to the term "lime" in the west).
• Hobbyists often add an extreme adult element to sculptures, models, figures, dolls, mannequins, or outfits.

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See also

• Anime
• Bishōjo game
• Bishōjo
• Bishōnen
• Cartoon pornography
• Eroge
• Ero guro
• List of hentai anime
• List of hentai authors (groups, studios, production companies, circles)
• Lolicon
• Manga
• Panchira
• Shotacon
• Shunga
• Yaoi
• Yuri (term)

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External links

• Dictionary of Japan Sex
• Hentai: Past and Present
• The "hentai" thread at The Society for the Study of Modern Image Board Culture—comparative English and Japanese uses of the word.
• "A Short History of 'Hentai'", by Mark McLelland
• "A Short History of 'Hentai'", by Mark McLelland, Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context, Issue 12, January 2006. Footnoted HTML version.
• 'H' does not mean 'hentai' via the Internet Archive