![]() ![]() The next work in this vein came in 1929 with Everready Harton in ‘Buried Treasure’, a very goofy sex comedy featuring a man with a giant detachable penis as long as his legs. Kite liberator returning characters series#The earliest known example of outright animated pornography is also from 1924, the American ‘stag film’ The Virgin with Hot Pants, a rather abstract depiction of a disembodied penis flying around and a mouse fucking a cat, followed by a series of live action sex acts. In the 20s, Animation itself was struggling to figure out its niche in society at the beginning, and the question of who its audience should be - and whether it would be appropriate to deal with sexuality explicitly, implicitly, or not at all - had to be decided. The secret 13th principle of animation is horniness libidinal investment, after all. A brief history of erotic animation: the Westīut as we saw as recently as last week, with Luis Seel’s film Wiener Bilderbogen (1924), erotic anime has been a significant part of this medium from pretty much the start. (Take for example youtuber Beyond Ghibli’s video, essentially a list of anime that deals with sex in ways he finds interesting, which he decided to title “Degenerate”!) Unfortunately, this reticence makes it a little difficult to research. It’s probably safe to say sexuality in animation is a subject that people find a great deal of difficulty approaching, and express quite a bit of embarrassment when they do. It’s only quite recently that other countries have picked up the torch again, between the explosion of indie animated porn using tools like Source Filmmaker, and the appearance of the heavily anime-influenced French studio Bobbypills. That has a very interesting history, which I’m tremendously grateful to for helping me research. ![]() It was pretty much only in Japan that erotic animation (ero-anime) became a well-established genre that could start to iterate on and develop its conventions (and even outside of the narrow niche of animated porn, animation would feel comfortable talking and joking about sexuality). To give a brief précis: sexuality has been part of animation since just about the beginning, but in most countries it rarely got beyond “haha, the cartoons… are having sex…” ( Allegro non Troppo being a pretty illustrative example if anyone remembers that one). If, however, this idea is offputting to you, I totally get it and I hope I’ll see you next week! Yeah, this one started as kind of a joke - “I should show hentai on animation night 69 lmao” - but sexuality is a part of the medium as steeped in history and worthy of investigation as, say, historical dramas or mecha. ![]()
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