One of the series that we’ve been watching in my anime club is Sayonara Zatsubou-Sensei (translated: “Farewell Mr. Despair”). It’s one of the best cartoons I’ve seen, filled with dark humor, unusual visuals, and of course fan service. It’s about a high school teacher who is always suicidal and the bonds that he builds with each of his bizarre students.
Here’s a taste of the show via it’s opening credits, which may in fact be the most NSFW opening credit sequence ever. Enjoy!
This was not intended to be my first blog post, but Ghost’s Porn post inspired me to share my feelings on the subject of Porn. Nerds and porn go hand in hand. I have friends who have HD after HD of porn. Every year a group of online buddies of mine have social gathering. We all haul our computers halfway across the world to meet in person to have meat, beer, and to get our game on. This usually lasts about a week. About half that week is spent trading porn. They organize it according to type, style, and what general mood they are in for the night. Most of these guys are in relationships or have wives. This is what baffles me.
If your in a relationship, no, scratch that, even if you are not in a relationship and over the age of 21, what the hell do you need porn for? Once you have felt the touch of a woman, you want to go back to your hand? I can understand porn when you are a young teenager, and finding a nice warm, tight space to park your penis is few and far between. At the age of 21 you should be socially mature enough to get as much ass as you want. When your married, there should be no excuse for porn. If I am feeling in the mood, all I have to do is look toward my bed to see that I have as much willing naked nookie as I can handle.
Maybe I just do not undestand the obsession to collect porn. Why does one want to stay at home and look at women having sex with each other, men, donkies, and whatever else they can stuff in themselves, when you have a vast sea of willing naked nookie right outside your front door?
It is a rough first post, I know. I promise they will improve as I write more. I am a speaker, not a writer.
Some very creative (?) people have put their talents to good (?) use by manipulating facial features for their Mii avatars to resemble pornographic imagery. The gallery can be found here, but proceed with caution… The image posted above is possibly the safest of all to display if at work or have young ‘uns running around.
The site encourages you to send in your own creations, if the mood should strike you.
Obviously, some of the following links may be NSFW.
Game Daily posted a photo gallery featuring porn stars commenting on video games. Some had witty comments, whether they play games themselves or not. A common question asked was whether the girls mind if their boyfriends play games or not. Some said that they don’t, others told the truth.
One notable mention is the post for Jenna Haze–probably the only name I recognized–who claims that she’s a big nerd herself. I can easily believe that she’s into vampires, werewolves, and the like…but I’m not buying the gamer nerd act so much. Then again, she’s a self-confessed stoner with a steady boyfriend. Regular gaming might in fact be in her life.
If you want to talk true game nerd porn stars, you can’t ignore Asia Carrera. This porn retiree was/is big into the first-person shooter community. Especially Unreal Tournament. She even made her own custom skins, which only beefs up her gamer cred’. Sorry to say, geeklings, this one’s married.
As a warning, some of the imagery linked here is NSFW.
As I browse through the various online art galleries that I frequent, it’s hardly uncommon that I come across adult material. And let’s be honest…some of it is pr0n. But every now and then I see another genre that I can’t tell if it’s meant to be erotic or just something else. It’s called “guro” or “ero guro” (“ero guro nansensu” being derived from the English words “erotic grotesque nonsense”) and it’s very brutally violent.
I usually skip over these images, but every once and a while I’ll take a curious peek. Lately, a few of those peeks have lead me to another shocking discovery. Now, I know that most artists out there–whether you see it or not–create mature art. Some, like Josh Lesnick, will even admit that the majority of his income comes from adult work (Slipshine), even if his labor of love (Girly) is more tame. It’s also not hard to find erotica made my manga god Masamune Shirow. But every now and then I’ll find an artist that I had no idea had such a dark side to their art.
I like to read Chugworth Academy. I even bought the first book. Apparently many in the webcomics community knew, but I’m just finding out that the series as I know it is actually it’s second incarnation. The first being more pornographic. Not only that, but Scribble Kid used to draw and post all sorts of erotica that even I would call “questionable”. It wasn’t until I recently saw some comics like this one posted on an online art gallery that I learned that side of him. At first I thought, “Yikes, this comic is kinda gruesome, but the art looks just like the style from the Chugworth Academy guy.” A google or two later, I found out that the style resemblance was more than coincidence. Now, I’m not passing judgment on him as an artist, but I certainly feel like I understand him a bit better as a person.
Another shock was when I found this guro image, with incredibly impressive pencil work. I’ve come to find out that it was done by Hiroaki Samura, famed artist of the Blade Of The Immortal manga, whose work I also admire. In fact, there’s a whole art book that collects it! Again, I was a little shocked… I can’t say I’m surprised when I find these things, but it’s always a bit of a shake-up when I identify the artist.
Most guro I’ve seen is meant to just be gross or disturbing. Often it comes off more as silly. But when I find a piece done by an artist whose work I dig, I get a sense of the emotions behind it. Kinda like the reaction you might get from an HR Giger piece. As a male, at least, I can empathize that sometimes men feel a hostile anger toward women, and pieces like the ones I’ve seen are an expression of that anger. I don’t at all condone the actual brutalization of women, but I do understand the emotions that fuel the art. Most guys have that part of them deep down that holds hostility toward women and uses sex to express dominance over someone.
Through all this, I’ve become wary of the other artists whom I admire. In the back of my mind, I’m now thinking, “Okay, which one of you fuckers am I gonna find next?” It’s like finding your friend’s porn stash…only he’s the one that shot the video.
