Comments on: Cephalerotica http://boingboing.net/2009/01/02/cephalerotica.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 22 May 2013 05:40:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: ReidFleming http://boingboing.net/2009/01/02/cephalerotica.html#comment-368898 ReidFleming Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-368898 @madsci - You're absolutely right, 'Cephalerotica' doesn't work at all. That was my immediate reaction. Unfortunately, I'm at a loss for an acceptable alternative that isn't so polysyllabic as to be unwieldy in the extreme. 'Cephalerotica' is akin to calling it 'Octorotica' wherein the reader will assume some type of orgy fetish. @madsci – You’re absolutely right, ‘Cephalerotica’ doesn’t work at all. That was my immediate reaction. Unfortunately, I’m at a loss for an acceptable alternative that isn’t so polysyllabic as to be unwieldy in the extreme.

‘Cephalerotica’ is akin to calling it ‘Octorotica’ wherein the reader will assume some type of orgy fetish.

]]> By: bunnie http://boingboing.net/2009/01/02/cephalerotica.html#comment-369415 bunnie Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-369415 hi brooklynn23! my friend did a revisit of the fishermans wife that he would love to contribute to your collection. we also have and art blog and would love to link to you once you get the hosting sorted out. hi brooklynn23!

my friend did a revisit of the fishermans wife that he would love to contribute to your collection. we also have and art blog and would love to link to you once you get the hosting sorted out.

]]> By: madsci http://boingboing.net/2009/01/02/cephalerotica.html#comment-368648 madsci Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-368648 Cephalerotica? Doesn't work. Cephal- means 'head'. I know she's talking about cephalopods ('head-feet') but you can't tell that from 'cephalerotica'. I'd have assumed it was some sort of head fetish. Cephalerotica? Doesn’t work. Cephal- means ‘head’. I know she’s talking about cephalopods (‘head-feet’) but you can’t tell that from ‘cephalerotica’. I’d have assumed it was some sort of head fetish.

]]> By: Superfluous Moniker http://boingboing.net/2009/01/02/cephalerotica.html#comment-368653 Superfluous Moniker Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-368653 Yeah, figured I'd mention the Japanese kink but I see I'm a bit late. @OM: that is the greatest link in the history of mankind, and I salute you. Yeah, figured I’d mention the Japanese kink but I see I’m a bit late.

@OM: that is the greatest link in the history of mankind, and I salute you.

]]> By: frankieboy http://boingboing.net/2009/01/02/cephalerotica.html#comment-368657 frankieboy Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-368657 I'm guessing someone asked their partner for head, and it got bollixed up in translation. Hey, some salt, some lemon, it's not a total loss. I’m guessing someone asked their partner for head, and it got bollixed up in translation. Hey, some salt, some lemon, it’s not a total loss.

]]> By: Antinous http://boingboing.net/2009/01/02/cephalerotica.html#comment-368662 Antinous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-368662 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_of_the_Fisherman%27s_Wife" rel="nofollow">The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife</a> The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife

]]> By: jmtd http://boingboing.net/2009/01/02/cephalerotica.html#comment-369943 jmtd Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-369943 I'm afraid I have nothing much to offer to this conversation (except maybe erm if you like this sort-of stuff I often see similar things posted at jwz.livejournal.com) but I couldn't sit here and not post with the current post count being at 69. I’m afraid I have nothing much to offer to this conversation (except maybe erm if you like this sort-of stuff I often see similar things posted at jwz.livejournal.com) but I couldn’t sit here and not post with the current post count being at 69.

]]> By: Daemon http://boingboing.net/2009/01/02/cephalerotica.html#comment-368666 Daemon Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-368666 Did we really need a new word for tentacle porn? Oh, and lest I forget: Ia! Ia! Cthulhu Fthagn! Did we really need a new word for tentacle porn?

Oh, and lest I forget: Ia! Ia! Cthulhu Fthagn!

]]> By: Jeff77 http://boingboing.net/2009/01/02/cephalerotica.html#comment-369182 Jeff77 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-369182 Couldn't resist posting a link to one of my octopus lover triptic pics: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2287/2115842691_984f6e27e1_o.jpg Couldn’t resist posting a link to one of my octopus lover triptic pics:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2287/2115842691_984f6e27e1_o.jpg

]]> By: Brookelynn23 http://boingboing.net/2009/01/02/cephalerotica.html#comment-368928 Brookelynn23 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-368928 @Wurzletod: Your site is awesome, but today is the first time I saw it. While a lot of those images were emailed to me from various friends and contacts, many of the images in my flickr set are scans from my own books and magazines. Like you, I started collecting a long time ago, and the first image I called Cephalerotica went up in Jan 2004. Your thread started in June '04. I hope you will chalk it up to the collective unconscious. There's tons of great things on your fourm, but I swear, nothing was lifted by me. @Wurzletod: Your site is awesome, but today is the first time I saw it. While a lot of those images were emailed to me from various friends and contacts, many of the images in my flickr set are scans from my own books and magazines. Like you, I started collecting a long time ago, and the first image I called Cephalerotica went up in Jan 2004. Your thread started in June ’04. I hope you will chalk it up to the collective unconscious. There’s tons of great things on your fourm, but I swear, nothing was lifted by me.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/01/02/cephalerotica.html#comment-368675 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-368675 Don't forget Zak Smith's very lovely "100 Girls and 100 Octopuses" http://fredericksfreisergallery.com/zaxart/octopus_girls/index.html Don’t forget Zak Smith’s very lovely “100 Girls and 100 Octopuses”
http://fredericksfreisergallery.com/zaxart/octopus_girls/index.html

]]> By: Brookelynn23 http://boingboing.net/2009/01/02/cephalerotica.html#comment-368932 Brookelynn23 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-368932 PS. I just spent some time clicking thru that extensive thread. It's really really cool! There's WAY more stuff on there than I have ever found, and some fresh artists that are very cool. PS. I just spent some time clicking thru that extensive thread. It’s really really cool! There’s WAY more stuff on there than I have ever found, and some fresh artists that are very cool.

]]> By: buddy66 http://boingboing.net/2009/01/02/cephalerotica.html#comment-368681 buddy66 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-368681 The post pic reminds us of Wonder Woman's bondage fetish roots. The post pic reminds us of Wonder Woman’s bondage fetish roots.

]]> By: nanuq http://boingboing.net/2009/01/02/cephalerotica.html#comment-368682 nanuq Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-368682 Shouldn't that be cephalophilia? Shouldn’t that be cephalophilia?

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/01/02/cephalerotica.html#comment-369456 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-369456 From the page linked here: "I was a bad flickr citizen, and I broke the rules. I'm a very lucky girl that my account was restored. I immediately deleted any photos that were not taken by me with my camera. I am sorry to any artists that I might have put off." From the page linked here:

“I was a bad flickr citizen, and I broke the rules. I’m a very lucky girl that my account was restored. I immediately deleted any photos that were not taken by me with my camera. I am sorry to any artists that I might have put off.”

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/01/02/cephalerotica.html#comment-368947 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-368947 another vote for zak smith's project '100 Girls and 100 Octopuses' fredericksfreisergallery.com/zaxart/octopus_girls/index.html another vote for zak smith’s project ’100 Girls and 100 Octopuses’
fredericksfreisergallery.com/zaxart/octopus_girls/index.html

]]> By: ReidFleming http://boingboing.net/2009/01/02/cephalerotica.html#comment-369461 ReidFleming Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-369461 @ adunaphel13 -- Although my brain thinks it was Heinlein that taught me, I'm not so sure anymore. IIRC, 'Octopi', although now accepted, is wrong. It should be Octopuses as the root is Greek, not Latin. The pedant in me is showing way too much of late so feel free to tell me to "get bent!" @ adunaphel13 — Although my brain thinks it was Heinlein that taught me, I’m not so sure anymore. IIRC, ‘Octopi’, although now accepted, is wrong. It should be Octopuses as the root is Greek, not Latin. The pedant in me is showing way too much of late so feel free to tell me to “get bent!”

]]> By: Tavie http://boingboing.net/2009/01/02/cephalerotica.html#comment-369718 Tavie Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-369718 @37 Reidfleming: <blockquote>'Cephalerotica' is akin to calling it 'Octorotica' wherein the reader will assume some type of orgy fetish.</blockquote> No no no, Octorotica is some sort of Octavia fetish. Nuthin' wrong with that. *bat bat* @37 Reidfleming:

‘Cephalerotica’ is akin to calling it ‘Octorotica’ wherein the reader will assume some type of orgy fetish.

No no no, Octorotica is some sort of Octavia fetish.

Nuthin’ wrong with that.

*bat bat*

]]> By: Laroquod http://boingboing.net/2009/01/02/cephalerotica.html#comment-369465 Laroquod Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-369465 @Agent 86: so I guess fair use is only for the technically inclined? Sorry, thanks for the perspective, and I appreciate the response, but I do not forgive services like flickr for setting more-restrictive-than-necessary terms of use for the general public, nor do I give any credit to legalistic arguments for why we can't have a useful conversation, with examples, about visual art, via one of the most popular image hosting service in the world. The very idea is I believe ridiculous to anyone who has not overly tangled their brain up with the law. @Agent 86: so I guess fair use is only for the technically inclined? Sorry, thanks for the perspective, and I appreciate the response, but I do not forgive services like flickr for setting more-restrictive-than-necessary terms of use for the general public, nor do I give any credit to legalistic arguments for why we can’t have a useful conversation, with examples, about visual art, via one of the most popular image hosting service in the world. The very idea is I believe ridiculous to anyone who has not overly tangled their brain up with the law.

]]> By: Roach http://boingboing.net/2009/01/02/cephalerotica.html#comment-368702 Roach Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-368702 Mmmm, nice. I've seen the full Bob Coulter project (the one at the link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brookelynn23/3149176256/in/set-72157594255560457/) It's called "Bad Girls Hotel" and he took them all at the Carlton Arms Hotel with a bunch of porn stars and the like. You can see some more here (NSFW, doy): http://www.badgirlshotel.com/ Mmmm, nice. I’ve seen the full Bob Coulter project (the one at the link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brookelynn23/3149176256/in/set-72157594255560457/) It’s called “Bad Girls Hotel” and he took them all at the Carlton Arms Hotel with a bunch of porn stars and the like. You can see some more here (NSFW, doy): http://www.badgirlshotel.com/

]]> By: TikiHead http://boingboing.net/2009/01/02/cephalerotica.html#comment-368965 TikiHead Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-368965 I did not know 'erotica' meant women only. I did not know ‘erotica’ meant women only.

]]> By: claud9999 http://boingboing.net/2009/01/02/cephalerotica.html#comment-368712 claud9999 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-368712 Some of us readers aren't into Hentai / tentacle porn. To the point where I turn off any Anime series I start watching as soon as the overly-buxom teen-age girl shows up in her short skirt schoolgirl outfit. Ech. Not to say that I don't like porn, I loves me some good porn with real people enjoying each other. never understood the Hentai or 3-d pr0n culture and am not fond of the "little girl" aspect of lowbrow either. Porn should be porn and entertainment should be entertainment. Some of us readers aren’t into Hentai / tentacle porn. To the point where I turn off any Anime series I start watching as soon as the overly-buxom teen-age girl shows up in her short skirt schoolgirl outfit. Ech.

Not to say that I don’t like porn, I loves me some good porn with real people enjoying each other. never understood the Hentai or 3-d pr0n culture and am not fond of the “little girl” aspect of lowbrow either. Porn should be porn and entertainment should be entertainment.

]]> By: desprez http://boingboing.net/2009/01/02/cephalerotica.html#comment-368972 desprez Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-368972 @Claud9999 "Porn should be porn and entertainment should be entertainment." Please don't tell me what I want from porn. Thank you. @Claud9999
“Porn should be porn and entertainment should be entertainment.”

Please don’t tell me what I want from porn. Thank you.

]]> By: claud9999 http://boingboing.net/2009/01/02/cephalerotica.html#comment-368719 claud9999 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-368719 Roach, thanks for the link...that's what I'm talking about! 8*> Roach, thanks for the link…that’s what I’m talking about! 8*>

]]> By: akbar56 http://boingboing.net/2009/01/02/cephalerotica.html#comment-368723 akbar56 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-368723 claud9999, that is a very narrow view of Hentai. Just like all pornography, there is a broad spectrum of types within the world of hentai. It is not all tentacles and young buxom school girls. claud9999, that is a very narrow view of Hentai.

Just like all pornography, there is a broad spectrum of types within the world of hentai. It is not all tentacles and young buxom school girls.

]]> By: PixelFish http://boingboing.net/2009/01/02/cephalerotica.html#comment-368730 PixelFish Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-368730 I have to add Jen Wang's Octoladysm from her Monster Sex collection: http://www.jenwang.net/art/images/octoladysm.jpg (The Monster Sex collection can be found here: http://www.jenwang.net/monstersex.html ) I wish I could find a picture of this stunning Victorian/Art Nouveau statue that was a woman carved in alabaster....with an octopus in another material curling round her. I found it in a book on art nouveau (library book or I'd name it here), but can't find any quick examples on line. I have to add Jen Wang’s Octoladysm from her Monster Sex collection:

http://www.jenwang.net/art/images/octoladysm.jpg

(The Monster Sex collection can be found here: http://www.jenwang.net/monstersex.html )

I wish I could find a picture of this stunning Victorian/Art Nouveau statue that was a woman carved in alabaster….with an octopus in another material curling round her. I found it in a book on art nouveau (library book or I’d name it here), but can’t find any quick examples on line.

]]> By: a_user http://boingboing.net/2009/01/02/cephalerotica.html#comment-368986 a_user Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-368986 Tikihead - Eros was in fact male, though Venus who lives on in the adjective venereal and the action venerate was a woman. Tikihead – Eros was in fact male, though Venus who lives on in the adjective venereal and the action venerate was a woman.

]]> By: nehpetsE http://boingboing.net/2009/01/02/cephalerotica.html#comment-368732 nehpetsE Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-368732 Since seeing recent research on how clever, inquisitive, & high spirited cephalopodia can be, i feel barbaric looking at naked damsels posing with their corpses. I mean it is still hot, and some of the images are very beautiful, So maybe i should file it in the same ethics VS hedonism quandary-bin as bacon. Oddly i feel less guilty looking pics of hot girls biting the heads off live bunnies. I might be more genetically closer to bunnies, but i feel more spiritual kinship with the octopi. Bunnies are dumb. Since seeing recent research on how clever, inquisitive, & high spirited cephalopodia can be, i feel barbaric looking at naked damsels posing with their corpses.

I mean it is still hot, and some of the images are very beautiful, So maybe i should file it in the same ethics VS hedonism quandary-bin as bacon.

Oddly i feel less guilty looking pics of hot girls biting the heads off live bunnies.
I might be more genetically closer to bunnies, but i feel more spiritual kinship with the octopi.

Bunnies are dumb.

]]> By: Agent 86 http://boingboing.net/2009/01/02/cephalerotica.html#comment-369502 Agent 86 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-369502 ReidFleming, I haven't read all of Heinlein, but Orson Scott Card had a bit about the correct version in his story/novel Lost Boys. ReidFleming,
I haven’t read all of Heinlein, but Orson Scott Card had a bit about the correct version in his story/novel Lost Boys.

]]> By: Tenn http://boingboing.net/2009/01/02/cephalerotica.html#comment-368998 Tenn Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-368998 Ahem... Takuan is evidently too busy to participate in the thread? Also, some images of cephalopods will have a ninth tentacle. You get three guesses on what -that- represents, and the first two don't count. Ahem… Takuan is evidently too busy to participate in the thread?

Also, some images of cephalopods will have a ninth tentacle. You get three guesses on what -that- represents, and the first two don’t count.

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