A new sexual mania is attracting more people nowadays: the Hentai. It is a Japanese word, where “hen” means unusual or strange and “tai” means attitude. The term started to refer to sexually explicit content in American Anime, but no one knows when it begun and why the word was adopted. In many countries, today, Hentai embodies different animes, mangas and computer games with pornographic content. It is also known as “H anime”, “eroanime” – derived from erotic anime – and “seinen”, derived from “adult”.

The Hentai is expressed through art and details, allowing full use of the imagination and elements of sexual fantasies, which sometimes run away from what is accepted by the society and would be impossible to film, such as purely carnal motivations or subconscious desires, as things like creatures or monsters engaging in sex or rape with girls, BDSM, incest, group sex, lolitas, science fiction, bukkake – when many men ejaculate on a woman’s face, in public – and many others.

The theme of the Hentai depends on the artist’s style. While some prefer extreme kinds of sex, others do the opposite, focusing on light sex and nudity, as stories and relationships. Many artists also create Hentai stories with characters from their own mangas, eroticizing them. In Hentai, the art often involves women who end up in some kind of sexual encounter, with a man that usually is a stranger and convinces the woman to have sex and whatever he desires.

Hentai material usually are sold in book stores, magazine stores, convenience stores and other public places, being commonly distributed in digest format, containing several stories by different artists. The Hentai, however, acquired major popularity on Internet, where the art is available in several sites, such as http://www.happyhentai.com/, which is free, and many other online pages that sell access to erotic manga.