I've noticed that high quality erotic CG artwork has a certain grasp of human perspective, such that characters are portrayed with femenine qualities and emotions. Good artists tend to have a firm grasp on female attitudes and clothing, while adding sexuality in any number of forms. Schoolgirls, office women, feudal Japanese characters, and any number of females can be drawn perfectly normal, or at least have some basis in reality, such that an artist without raging hormones could draw the same female in a completely non sexual situation. The female subject could simply be clothed, with a smile, and normal body proportions. But due to the inherent horniness of males towards females, various provocative elements are added- large breasts, flipped skirts, emphasized cameltoes, nudity and actual sex.
Compare this to the naked "horny slut" supermodel, with tongue hanging out, bent over with dripping pussy. I find this type of woman less realistic, and less appealing than a "normal looking" girl, quite attractive and cute, who happens to be in some sexual situation. In other words, the porn star who doesn't exist, versus the every day female who gets involved in a porn-like situation.
Japanese artists tend to recognize femeninity, and various female responses, including embarassment, shyness, willing provocation, and horniness. "Porn star" figures, on the other hand, display only raw sexuality with no basis in reality.
Perhaps the hentai medium is superior to average porn, since it can show the contrast between everyday human society and social normals with inhibited sexual urges. Porn itself is just sex, with no other reference. And live action porn movies or magazines have difficulty in showing anything other than raw pornography, lest they result to bad acting or poorly written text.
There was a time when US artists revelled in "society plus sexulity contrast," with cheesecake, pinup girls, fantasy art, and nudie mags of the past, but most have become relics. Why has pinup art died out? Perhaps women's lib and femenism have convinced society that girls are no longer objects, no longer foxy ladies with cute smiles and filled sweaters. But there is still regular porn in abundance. Check any adult magazine or web site, and you'll see typical "hot cum guzzling sluts who want hard cock now." I find this portrayal far less flattering to the female form than say, a normal but cute girl in an everyday setting mixed with any number of sexual situations. And this "normal everyday situation plus sex" can also be humurous and more provocative than say, some naked porn star.
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Anonymous2005-02-28 22:11
I gave up on sexual attraction a while back.
Hmm... I think this may be linked to my slowly worsening schizophrenia...
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K_x_uksami2005-03-03 18:29
Basically, all porn is what is known as hyperreality, a simulation of reality so good that it is better than the real thing. Real women do not look like hentai characters. It is all an idealized portrayal of sex. It's a simulation of something that never really existed. Just my two cents.
people aren't perfect. if you want to dance off into a fantasy world, fine with me. but saying "ZOMG I WISH CHICKS WOULD LOOK LIKE THE GIRLS IN HENTAI" makes you seem a bit pathetic. would you say that to an actual girl and not just the people around 4chan?
That said, of course there ARE otaku out there, who if they managed to actually meet a girl, would say something like "you don't look enough like rei-chan/kouyama mitsuki-chan for me".
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Ashley2005-05-21 17:33
Totally agree, and it's the same for both genders. Male porn stars (and males all around) are funny looking at the best of times and since porn is so very, very rarely geared for women, they have the personalities of emotionally stunted lumberjacks, assuming they speak at all. However in yaoi and certain hentai, there's a grace and a beauty to bishounen and biseinen that the real deal so rarely emulates. You never see a bishounen beauty with a beer gut, a receding hair line, and pubic hair reaching up to his shoulderblades. Yech. Give me a perfect fair-haired bishounen any day of the week.
Problem with real porn you get the same old sequence with setting that are just overused. Mainly because of legal (ie cant film a real 16 yr old etc etc) or taste really.
Hentai there is no restriction. Albeit you get the sick stuff of course.
Hentai is for the literary and philisophical Elite. DUH
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Anonymous2005-08-15 1:02
I think the girls in anime and hentai look good because that is how the artists want them to look. Besides, who looks at porn or hentai because they're hoping to hook up with the people on the videos?
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Anonymous2005-08-24 23:54
Realistic? How many women have you met with 67-23-30 measurements?
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Anonymous2005-08-25 14:05
I bet every single one of you lamers are virgins.
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Anonymous2005-08-25 21:10
>>>56 I bet you're a fat guy living at home with his mom in his 20's
Actually, the only porn i really dislike is American. European porn (No not THAT kind of Euro porn) seems to have well balanced, ordinary women and Asian porn the girls tend to be a bit shy, but seem really cute. Way better then a silicone breasted porn star shouting "OH MY GOD RAM MY DRIPPING HOT PUSSY WITH YOUR GARGANTUAN LOIN LOBSTER!"
I actually think that people who say 'get a real girl' are being jerks. I mean, what about people who aren't into dating, and the people who girls don't like?
And then there's me, who is female and can't get a girl cus they're all afraid of me >_<
(Indeed. Kudos for Genshiken readers)
Seriously though. If that's what you're into then that's all there is to it. Not like your entire future's gonna be ruined if you prefer hentai to porn.
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Silph2005-11-26 10:19
I have to say that I agree and disagree with the points made about perfection, for instance; yes, hentai girls do have a much more of a sence of reality attached to them because they're not skinny women with tonnes of make up on begging for 13 inch cocks, they're the actual girl next door or that girl you have a crush on (in a non-perverted way and stalkerish way). But I think you've got to be careful about calling them 'perfect', everyone's idea of perfect is different, it doesn't make much sence to talk about a 'perfect girl', if you see what I mean.
Also people who enjoy hentai aren't all people who hope to date a real anime girl, connecting sexaul fantasy and what you want in a relationship are two different subjects. If you really want a porn star as your girlfriend/boyfriend you don't want them for the relationship, you want them for a sex and the masochistic glory.
I mean really, people who enjoy loli don't all actually want to have sex with little children, it's just something in your head, a fantasy, most people can tell the different between what a fantasy and what reality is. At least I hope they can.
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Frostbite2005-12-08 10:04
It takes a really good porn to get me going, and that said, it can't be just pictures. Hentai has the fantasy thing going though.
In hentai a girl can have sex with anything imaginable. She can be taken advantage of by an older teacher, and it doesn't look fake or corny because they aren't actors getting paid. Not to mention all the tentacle sex and weird creature sex. I'd like pornstars try to pull that off.
Seeing pornstars fake orgasms and knock people out with their awful boobjobs will just never compare to a hot anime girl getting raped by tentacles or having hot and steamy shower sex.
And yet my boyfriend finds porn to be the more attractive of the two. Probably just because it's real people. whatever, he still watches my hentai with me. Hah.