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I remember reading an article talking about how all the tentacle porn in Japanese hentai exists because USA banned the depiction of genitalia in the media after WWII, so they had to become creative about it.

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Actually it's the other way around. Post WW2 the allies actually removed most of the censorship laws. But the premise might be correct tho the material predates Allied occupation by 150 years.

Major NSFW https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tentacle_erotica

It goes back much further, to the early westernization of Japan.

Or so I've read. I'm not really a historian.

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