What Is Futanari?
You may have heard the word futanari or heard someone talking about futa kinks, but weren’t sure what it was all about. What is the futa fetish? Does it have anything to do with transgender sex? Isn’t it some kind of manga?
Futanari is a Japanese word that means “of two kinds.” It was initially used to describe the phenomenon of hermaphrodites, or someone with both male and female body parts.
The word hermaphrodite is considered old fashioned today and is offensive to some, but it came about as the name of two gods from classical mythology, Hermes, and Aphrodite, who was the goddess of love.
Futanari as a term evolved to mean androgyny in general, but today it mostly refers to fictional or cartoon characters in futa fiction and futa animation, an erotic kind of manga or anime featuring characters that have a feminine body and a penis, or a penis and vagina.
Futanari or Futa now refers to the genre of manga itself, featuring futanari characters and stories.
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Origins of Futanari Hentai
Many cultures have folklore, legends, or beliefs about gender diversity, and Japanese history is no different. There are songs or speeches that reference the idea of switching gender that precede the futanari by hundreds of years. Certain deities called dosojin sometimes had ambiguous genders.
Other beliefs held that it was possible to change genders during specific times of the moon. In the realm of theater, onnagata actors were men who played women on stage, and many onnagata capitalized on the erotic spell this role held over many.
While futanari originally meant actual people with male and female characteristics, it changed to mean animated characters with these qualities, with the rise of manga and anime as art forms, and specifically, hentai, which is erotic or pornographic manga and anime.
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Futanari, or futa, are often called “she-males” although this term is considered offensive today. The futanari most often have a female body and a penis, or a penis and vagina. There are many variations, including futa with and without testicles, characters called “dick boys” and “c**t girls” and characters who possess a yaoi hole, which is between the penis and anus.
Why Is Futanari Kink Popular?
The futanari kink is popular for many different reasons. Some people have a futa fetish out of excitement for the novelty of or curiosity over diverse gendered bodies. The idea of someone having both male and female sexual characteristics as uniquely erotic goes way back in mythology and in reality, and its relative rarity make it a sought after concept.
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For others, the futa fetish is all about the Japanese graphic arts style. Hentai in general is provocative and exciting, and the futa kink is one of many kinks within hentai.
For some, it is a kind of transformation kink. Just as some people are excited by the idea of someone being inflated, or someone turned into a werewolf or Wonder Woman, the transformation of gender is exciting.
Some people are especially attracted to transgender people or to genderqueer expressions, and the futa fetish is one way to explore this fetish.
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5 Ways to Indulge Your Futa Fetish
1. Futanari Hentai
The futanari fetish is most popularly explored simply by enjoying futa hentai. Hentai is manga and anime that is erotic or pornographic, and futanari hentai is a whole world of fantasy and action.
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2. Futanari Porn
Futanari porn is another way to indulge your futa kink. Futa porn is sometimes animated in manga or hentai style, and sometimes in more life-like computer animation style.
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3. Futanari Erotica
Futa is also a popular theme in futanari erotica, which are more often than not stories told by other people with a futa fetish. They can be short, just a few paragraphs, or long and involved futa stories with backstory, plot, and erotic action.
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4. Futanari Sex Dolls
The futanari fetish really comes alive with futa sex dolls! These range from life size silicone beauties with big breasts and a big cock to a more manga aesthetic, to torsos with breasts, balls and dick. Some come with the extra yaoi hole as well. Futanari sex dolls for your futa kink can be custom made to taste.
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5. Futanari Roleplay
You can play out a futa kink with your partner through futanari role play. This is a wonderful way to explore your futa fantasies. It can be fun and exciting for someone to role play being the opposite or both genders, or experience the fantasy of having mixed genitalia or sex characteristics.
It can be exciting to experience your partner in that state of transformation, or to explore fantasies about their body having more kinds of sex organs. A very exciting way to role play futa in this context is simply to have her use a strap-on harness and dildo. Crossdressing or wearing prosthetic breasts and makeup or a wig can be really hot too.
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Futa Is Fantasy
The futa kink or futanari fetish is an imaginative way to explore gender and transformation dynamics. Please keep in mind that the futanari hentai is fiction.
There may be transgender people who identify with futa characteristics as individuals or who like this kind of lens as a way of understanding their identity or sexuality. However, most transgender people are not the “she-male” hybrid of mythological and literary and erotic fantasy.
Don’t expect sex with a transgender person to perform or feel the way futa do. A transgender woman who takes hormones but still has a cock seldom has a huge, hard cock and porn star curves, and won’t wield her body in the way futa do. Futa are a fantasy.
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There ARE intersex people with mixed sexual characteristics and there are transgender people or genderqueer people who enjoy fantasies or sex futa hentai-style. But most of them have a different aesthetic, fantasy, body, and psychology, unique to them.
Futa hentai and futa porn are fictional erotic fantasies, and do not reflect what transgender or intersex people are really like.
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