Tako to Ama ( or , Dream of the Fisherman ’s Wife ) is a beautiful woodcut illustration from 1814 byKatsushika Hokusaiand the ancestor of Japanese tentacle porno . ( desire to see the # NSFW original ? Clickhere . )
I ’m not going to discuss the woman . Her special kink may not do anything for me , but she ’s distinctly having a adept time . More power to her .
I need to talk about the octopus between her leg . ‘ Cos I do n’t know exactly what that devilfish is doing , but it does n’t look anything like cephalopod sex .
For one , I do n’t see any evidence that the octopus is aroused . For the sake of argument , let ’s assume the octopus in question is aNorth Pacific Giant Octopus . It ’s about the right size of it and form , and its strong red tone is middling close to the normal color for male person in that coinage . But though males may look like that most of the time , everything alter when they ’re quick to get it on .
Octopus peel hold thousands of tiny organs calledchromatophoresthat give them recherche ascendance over their colour , grain , and skin rule . The organs are wired directly into the octopus anxious system of rules , and let these brute instantly camouflage themselves as they move from boulder to boulder on the ocean floor . Chromatophores also permit these animals exhibit exactly what ’s on their minds : an amorous North Pacific Giant Octopus ’ skin goes frilly and is overlain by a pattern of snowy spots on a red background .
So , he ’s not wear his sexytime suit . Nor is he probing her with his sweet mellisonant mating arm . A virile octopus does have a penis – but it ’s a relatively small organ that ’s tucked up near his head , and it does n’t really come into link with his match . For that , he has a extra subdivision predict a hectycotylus .
The hectycotylus is usually a male person ’s third correct weapon . It does n’t look like his other weapons system : in octopus its tip is flat , spoon - alike , and suckerless , and a groove run along its length from radical to gratuity . According toDr . James Wood , a cephalopod expert and coauthor of Octopus : The Ocean ’s Intelligent Invertebrate , the male person uses his penis to “ gird ” the channel with a large and elaborate spermatophore before insert it into a female ’s mantle dental caries . This picture of mate octopus from theCaldwell labat the University of California , Berkeley lets you see precisely what that looks like .
As you’re able to see , even though the devilfish in Hokusai ’s woodcut is wrapping the womanhood in his arms and pulling her close to his body the way mating devilfish do , his hectocotylus remains tenderly wrapped around her back . Not much spermatophore - laden probing go on there . And the char may want to be deliberate about whatever probing is run low on near the octopus ’ mouthpiece . Their beaks are sharp , and their tongues have teeth that can practise through crab shells .
[ Sources : Mann et al . 1970;Messenger 2001;Anderson et al . 2003;AZA 2014 ]
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