Hentai

Meaning

What does Hentai mean?

The phrase Hentai is a Japanese word which has two meanings. The first meaning is pervert in Japanese, with no other context.

The other meaning refers to anime adult entertainment. On the internet usually the second meaning is dominant, due to the popularity of the fetish for Hentai.

Hentai

Origin

What's the origin of Hentai?

The phrase Hentai was first used to refer to adult anime in the 1990s, after the anime and a Japanese culture started to make its way out of Japan to the rest of the world.

More and more people started to get addicted to anime and the Japanese culture, which led to people sexualising these characters and creating a fetish.

Hentai started to make its way on the internet in the following years, first in the form of drawings.

Spread & Usage

How did Hentai spread?

Hentai is widespread all around the world due the popularity of the Japanese culture and the kink for the type it is.

Both men and women enjoy these as there are no limits to the tons of subcategories you can find.

There are things pictured in hentai that otherwise aren’t legal in normal adult entertainment like: gore and mutilation, rape fantasy, girls and boys of questionable age, monsters having sex with people and so on.

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