The Salarywoman & the Octopus

I have a friend in Osaka who writes erotica in which women have sex with octopuses. This is shokushu goukan (触手強姦), the “tentacles porn” notoriously depicted in Hokusai’s heavenly and uncanny 1814 woodblock print, “The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife.” My friend is otherwise a solid Japanese citizen, a salarywoman journalist with a family. Maybe not even …