What’s the history of Hentai?

Hentai is an underground cultural phenomenon. Spend enough time searching for, watching, and talking about porn and you’ll hear the word so you probably want to know the history of hentai.

It often gets tied up with anime and manga, which you’ve probably also heard of, too. It’s all wrapped up in Japanese culture which has had a long history of erotic art.

We’re going to give you the full history of hentai, helping you sound cultured and educated when you talk about the stuff you have a wank to. We’ll be looking at:

• What hentai actually is
• The ancient roots of hentai
• The modern history of hentai

And we’ll finish up with details about how you can watch hentai if it’s your thing for a cheeky fap session.

What is hentai?

Hentai is a type of pornography that looks like modern Japanese comics, graphic novels, and animations with sexual themes and explicit sex scenes. In short, hentai is manga and anime pornography.

It’s one of the most popular porn categories and is popular all over the world. The top three countries that search for the word “hentai” are:

1. Mongolia (who’d’a thunk it?)
2. Vietnam
3. The Philippines

People all over the world are into it, though. When we compare how often “hentai” is searched for compared to other popular porn categories like MILFs and amateurs, you can see it’s consistently getting more interest in the last five years.

The word hentai in Japanese actually means something like perversion or abnormality. It’s actually a shortened version of hentai seiyoku which means abnormal sexual desire.

In Japan, you’ll rarely find someone talking about sexual cartoons as hentai. It’s a word that’s been borrowed by most other cultures in the world to refer to these animations.

What’s the ancient history of hentai?

The art form that is hentai actually dates back a few hundred years. Between the years of around 700-1100 AD, Japan developed a type of erotic art called shunga.

Shunga was created with woodblock printing techniques and was the preserve of the upper classes of the Japanese court. Older depictions are hard to come by, but this image dates back to 1703.

In 1661, erotic books that contained shunga were banned. The concept had been around for generations, so it wasn’t exactly easy to suppress – the high-class Japanese were already into their dirty pictures and it was going to be hard to take them away.

As the Western printing presses made it to Japan during the Meiji era, these classical woodblock prints of sex scenes began to die out. The printing press also ushered in even more strict censorship so shunga and sexy pictures both faced suppression.

Japanese society was about to be shaken up and the porn industry there got a huge boost.

How did hentai develop after World War 2?

We’re not getting into war history here, but after the Japanese government surrendered to the USA after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Americans took over the governance of Japan. With that, all censorship was banned and free speech was declared as a right across the islands.

No censorship always equals more porn, wherever you are in the world. However, it took a little why for hentai as we know it to develop.

In the post-war era, manga comics and graphic novels were more realistic. One artist, Osamu Tezuka, started drawing in a more cartoon, stylized way and was famous for manga like:

• Ambassador Atom, featuring the famous Astro Boy
• Princess Knight
• Pheonix

It was this animation style that would turn into the hentai we know today.

It’s hard to say what was the first hentai, although Cybele by Azuma Hideo is said to be the first modern lolicon manga. Loli is a type of manga that shows underage characters having sex. It plays into the fantasy of teen sex, although real-life porn will always have a cast that’s strictly 18+.

With the proliferation of technology like cheap TVs and VHS players, animated hentai became popular just as a fresh porn ban was instituted in Japan in the 1980s. This went hand-in-hand with the release of Lolita in February 1984 and Cream Lemon in August the same year.

These were arguably the first animated porn movies in the history of hentai. They’re also within the loli genre though and are – rightly – hard to come by since they depict scenes of rape and underage sex.

What are tentacle porn and tentacle hentai?

A sub-genre of hentai is tentacle porn. It was popularized by the hentai animation called Urotsukidoji by Toshio Maeda in 1989.

As the name suggests, this type of porn depicts women being penetrated by an octopus or other monster tentacles. There’s even a whole sex toy market that plays to this, such as the Ika tentacle dildo from Bad Dragon.

Where can I watch hentai?

The history of hentai is long and at times controversial. It’s definitely a popular genre – even though the “naughty” bits are sometimes censored with pixellation which kinda defeats the object of porn? Or does it make it naughtier when you have to fill in the pixels yourself?

Not all hentai is censored and you can watch it with all the graphic penetration.

Here at SinParty, we have a broad and growing list of hentai clips. Some of what’s on our site is classic, censored hentai, whilst others are hardcore hentai that shows everything you want to see.

The collection of hentai on SinParty spans the history of hentai with classics and new additions. Whatever your hentai needs, they’ll be covered here at SinParty.