Humor in Erotica
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I am struggling with exactly this at the moment. Even the transition from 'funny' to 'hot' is challenging, without reducing the essential 'comic novel' elements of my project to mere jokes.
It's been 20+ years since I read it, but the opening scene of Eat Me by Linda Jaivin was hilarious and steamy. The scene is a fantasy taking place in the produce aisle of a supermarket. Imagine the kitchen scene from the movie "9 1/2 Weeks" but full of foody puns and creative turns of phrase. I don't recall the rest of the book being all that sexy, but that opening scene is quite memorable for its use of humor.
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I've only read the "Look Inside" part, and I'd say it's humor, not erotica. My impression is that virtually all sales of dinosaur, tentacle, and similar porn fiction written in English are as gag gifts.
Alternatively, it's horror. I enjoy OOT dinosaur and tentacle porn that's written as horror fiction. Yum yum!
I don't know about the dinos, but there is plenty of mature animation about tentacles produced in Japan and it is watched in by English viewers. Whether it is available subbed and/or dubbed is different issue.
I can't imagine writing about tentacles and I've read internet articles about cephalopod reproduction.
All shrinkage aside, there are inherent qualities of sex that promote humor, getting stuck in your zipper and the school nurse asking, "How did this happen?" ohh, I digress.
There may be less of an audience for humor in sex, but then again, a new genre may be just around the corner. Create it and the masses may follow.
There may be less of an audience for humor in sex, but then again, a new genre may be just around the corner. Create it and the masses may follow.
Fun thing about that: Japan has really weird censorship laws, to the point that even porn has to be censored. But some galaxy-brained individual realized, hey, tentacles aren't genitals! So I can show the tentacles doing stuff and they won't be censored! But there's ancient Japanese woodblock prints of people getting it on with octopodes, so it's not even a new thing.
I knew about the censorship. I did not know about the cephalopods invading pre-information age Japanese art.
Tentacles don't need to be censored, certain lower bikini covered areas do need to be, weird effects in mature animation result.
Right, but my understanding is that in Japan and everywhere else, tentacle porn and similar materials are visual, not something people read as sixty thousand words with no pictures.
C'mon, give yourself a challenge--let's see some cephalopod hotness! Just something short...
Maryn, teasing
In the many years I've been reading stories on Literotica, tentacles crop up fairly often there.
I am actually unfamiliar with hentai light novels lol. Most of them do not get translated to English, as you can imagine, and I cannot read a single hanzi, of any language. But I imagine it HAS to exist, considering so many horny manga/anime are based off of horny light novels.
I love adding humor to my erotica. One of the lines I'm most proud of is a sex robot saying "I've had some work done too," in response to her lover sharing the story of his phalloplasty. Definitely not as funny to the rest of the world as to me, but I thought it added levity and character.
The deli scene in When Harry Met Sally. Hilarious. Play off of that and instead of in a deli, it's in a hotel room. The moaning is so loud, guests complain, or think she's being assaulted. Cops show up. She's still in the throes of orgasm. One cop says, "Tell me what you did."
"Why? Am I being arrested for something?"
"Naw, man. You definitely done it right. I just want my girlfriend to experience that."
What made it funny in the movie was that she was faking, very convincingly, making the Billy Crystal character realize that maybe he wasn't as good at sex as he thought.
If she's not faking but the noises are the real thing in the hotel, loud enough to bother people in adjacent rooms, there's two problems. The big one is, even in cities with rapid response (or in-house hotel security instead of cops), that climax is lasting crazy long. (There's some animal that has long orgasms, IIRC. Pigs?) The smaller is that when the sounds are for real, then only the cop's line is funny.
While it's not a bad line at all (and all hail men who want to make their women experience that!), it's not as big a payoff. It'd be a pleasant chuckle, though.
If she's not faking but the noises are the real thing in the hotel, loud enough to bother people in adjacent rooms, there's two problems. The big one is, even in cities with rapid response (or in-house hotel security instead of cops), that climax is lasting crazy long. (There's some animal that has long orgasms, IIRC. Pigs?) The smaller is that when the sounds are for real, then only the cop's line is funny.
While it's not a bad line at all (and all hail men who want to make their women experience that!), it's not as big a payoff. It'd be a pleasant chuckle, though.