{"id":4249,"date":"2020-10-04T00:38:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T00:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bettybutch.com\/?p=4249"},"modified":"2023-07-24T20:54:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T20:54:26","slug":"a-timely-ode-to-tentacles-and-where-you-can-get-some-of-your-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bettybutch.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/04\/a-timely-ode-to-tentacles-and-where-you-can-get-some-of-your-own\/","title":{"rendered":"A Timely Ode to Tentacles (and Where You Can Get Some of Your Own)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Cephalatrox 12″ Tentacle Dildo<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There\u2019s a long, wet, writhing history of people seeing the eroticism of tentacles. But I\u2019m not here to talk about the history<\/em> of sexualizing the powerful, undulating limbs of beasts both oceanic and fictional. I\u2019m here to talk about me<\/em> doing it.<\/p>\n

And dildos<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(Content notes:<\/strong> Brief references to assault, queerphobia, dysphoria; eroticized discussion of monster fucking; eroticized allusions to potentially dubious\/non-consensual acts.)<\/p>\n

why are tentacles so fucking hot?<\/em><\/h4>\n

My interest in tentacles spawned from a desire to consume penetration-centric porn that didn\u2019t feature penises. (I was a rape survivor<\/a> still navigating my feelings around dick, and an egg not yet acknowledging and processing<\/a> my own gender dysphoria. I have a much healthier relationship with bodies now.) Tentacle monster comics were an easily accessible alternative in the days of image boards and dial up.<\/p>\n

Tentacle porn embodies so much of what I love about power exchange and penetrative sex. Tentacles are usually relentless, greedy, and overwhelming. They plunder and they fuck and they stretch their receiver with unsatisfiable lust and\/or curiosity. Like fisting as kink, the themes and visuals in tentacle eroticism emphasize pushing someone\u2019s orifice(s) to their limits, the strange relief of accepting one\u2019s unrelentingly pleasurable plight, the beautifully grotesque intimacy of occupying someone else\u2019s body by physical force.<\/p>\n

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From left to right: Xenuphora<\/a>, Xenusoid<\/a>, Cephalatrox<\/a> (armor), and Teuthida<\/a>. Photo provided by Uberrime.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There is also the monster<\/em> element. Monsters and queerness are inextricably linked; media censorship and public sentiment drove queers into monstrous roles in movies and novels for much of history. (And those tropes \u2013 both overt and subtle \u2013 are still popular.) My own interest in tentacle porn came from the queerness, the otherness<\/em> of my sexual desires. In monster smut I found \u2013 and still find \u2013 a manifestation of the weirdness of my carnality, dressed up in fur and fangs and the cold embrace of space.<\/p>\n

Tentacles are otherworldly. They can perform sex acts impossible for a human being. They feel lust \u2013 or at least hunger or curiosity \u2013 that\u2019s alien. That\u2019s deeply appealing to me, as someone who\u2019s queer, nonbinary, and kinky. My sexual identity has only recently begun being culturally normalized; \u201cotherworldly\u201d and \u201calien\u201d are categories I\u2019ve found comforting.<\/p>\n

tentacles as sex toys<\/em><\/h4>\n
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The Teuthida<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It\u2019s no secret that I love sex toys. (You\u2019re currently on my website, which is dedicated to talking about and reviewing them.) One of the many reasons I\u2019m enthusiastic about sex toys is that they can make fantasy physical and fuckable for the playful and devious among us, from pet tails<\/a> for role players to electro wands<\/a> for medical kinksters.<\/p>\n

Tentacles are popular fixtures in fantasy dildo collections, but you don\u2019t see many in mainstream sex shops. They\u2019re almost all produced by indie makers that sell through Etsy or their own websites<\/a>. This means they\u2019re justifiably expensive, and often only available in \u201cdrops\u201d: sudden or scheduled releases of random toys in various colors and firmness levels.<\/p>\n

One such indie maker is Uberrime Handmade Dildos<\/a>, my pal and one of my site sponsors. Uberrime doesn\u2019t do drops \u2013 they have a consistent inventory that\u2019s always available to order, and their toys have set densities and coloration options. Some of their most popular stock is carried by sex shops like SheVibe<\/a>, Peepshow Toys<\/a>, and even my local brick and mortar.<\/p>\n

tentacle dildos by uberrime<\/em><\/h4>\n

I only own one Uberrime tentacle: the distinctly alien Xenuphora<\/a>. (EDIT: I now own the Cephalatrox, Teuthida, and Kraken Revenge<\/a>!) It\u2019s petite by tentacle standards, just 1.43 inches wide and less than 7 inches tall. It comes in several colorations on Uberrime\u2019s site<\/a>, but mine is a solid glow-in-the-dark green. I often joke about how I literally use it as a night light because it\u2019s so bright.<\/p>\n

The Xenuphora \u2013 along with its companion, the more prominently ribbed Xenusoid<\/a> \u2013 has a backstory, which I\u2019ve always loved from fantasy makers. (Not everyone enjoys these. But if an artist\u2019s canon for their fuckable creation doesn\u2019t suit your fantasies, it\u2019s easily ignored.) The Xenuphora and Xenusoid are both water-dwellers from another world, clinging to rocks and passively netting prey in their suckers for slow digestion. As someone who\u2019s always been obsessed with tide pools, I find this imagery intriguingly animalistic.<\/p>\n

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From top left: Xenuphora<\/a>, Xenusoid<\/a>, Cephalatrox<\/a> (armor), and Teuthida<\/a>. Photo provided by Uberrime.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Appealing to more traditional tentacle enthusiasts, Uberrime also has the Teuthida<\/a> and Cephalatrox<\/a>: two large, squishy, sucker-lined silicone limbs. The Teuthida has 8 insertable inches, and its undulated shaft maxes out at just over 2 inches in diameter. The substantial Cephalatrox (a name I enjoy immensely<\/em>) is over 12 inches tall, making it larger than even Uberrime\u2019s Grandis Giant<\/a>. The base of its penetrating length swells to over 2.5 inches wide.<\/p>\n

The Teuthida<\/a> and Cephalatrox have flared bases, making them not just anal safe, but possible to use in certain harnesses. Bodily wielding a tentacle (or two<\/em>, if you\u2019ve got double o-rings) as if it\u2019s slithered free of your own form is the kind of body horror or queer monster sex play that the spooky season demands.<\/p>\n

There is also, of course, the Tentare (renamed Dragon Claw<\/a> and Talon<\/a> on SheVibe) and the Deep Diver<\/a>. The former is a silicone sleeve for bullet vibrators, and I enthusiastically reviewed it in 2018<\/a>. Like the rest of Uberrime\u2019s tentacles, it provides toe-curlingly interesting alien textures you can rub off on. Stubbier than what most would think of when arousedly pondering tentacles, the Tentare is a different beast. A seducer<\/em> rather than a plunderer<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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SheVibe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Deep Diver<\/a> is an upgraded, hand-sculpted recreation of a SheVibe-stocked design from Whipspider, a studio that abruptly vanished 7 years ago. Its curving heft (2.5\u201d at its widest) and glow-in-the-dark suckers give it a spacey, would-look-good-next-to-a-lava-lamp (groovy!) aesthetic instead of something purely aquatic or alien.<\/p>\n

the timeliness of tentacles\u00a0<\/em><\/h4>\n

I\u2019ve found myself thinking a lot about tentacles recently. 2020\u2019s unending shitfuckery \u2013 both on a global and personal scale \u2013 has frequently driven my erotic musings towards the fictional and abstract, where it\u2019s safer. Queer monsters, autistic aliens, the terrifying sensuality of limits approached and forcibly surpassed\u2026<\/p>\n

Is it so odd for tentacles to feel nostalgic to me? For their weird, winding shapes to feel more familiar to me than my own body? To draw comfort from their otherness, their separation from fact and the dreadful present. I don\u2019t think so. I think I\u2019m lucky to have found a queer refuge in them, a way to manifest baser urges in both fantasy and silicone.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m quite keen to keep doing it.<\/p>\n

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