{"id":11178,"date":"2012-03-27T02:07:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T01:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=11178"},"modified":"2022-04-04T14:41:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T13:41:14","slug":"gay-octopus-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/03\/27\/gay-octopus-sex\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay octopus sex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/data.tumblr.com\/tumblr_m1bpweNXwz1qdwgc1o1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJ6IHWSU3BX3X7X3Q&amp;Expires=1332895389&amp;Signature=PNZdqC2pNsnAfOeC%2FIowFEKlPP8%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/joapa.jpg\" alt=\"joapa.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So now that I have your undivided attention&#8230; You&#8217;d think someone would have tried a male variation on Hokusai&#8217;s notorious <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Dream_of_the_Fisherman's_Wife\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Dream of the Fisherman&#8217;s Wife<\/em><\/a> (1814) before now but if they have I&#8217;ve not seen it. Hokusai gives us a father-and-son pair of amorous octopuses but the smaller creature is missing from this picture by Tumblr user <a href=\"http:\/\/joapa.tumblr.com\/post\/19773477875\/minha-releitura-da-obra-ama-e-o-polvo-xilogravura\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joapa<\/a>. Nice use of texture to give the feel of an old comic book page; if the online poster manufacturers weren&#8217;t so prudish I could imagine this doing brisk business. Those wanting more of the boys-and-tentacles micro-fetish are directed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/06\/16\/the-art-of-nobeast\/\">the art of NoBeast<\/a> for whom { feuilleton } burns an undying and ever-perverse flame. Joapa tip via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homocomix.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Homocomix<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-gay-artists-archive\/\">The gay artists archive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/12\/09\/le-poulpe-colossal\/\">Le Poulpe Colossal<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/10\/05\/abysmal-creatures\/\">Abysmal creatures<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/09\/08\/fascinating-tentacula\/\">Fascinating tentacula<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/12\/12\/jewelled-butterflies-and-cephalopods\/\">Jewelled butterflies and cephalopods<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/06\/06\/the-art-of-rune-olsen\/\">The art of Rune Olsen<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/08\/12\/octopulps\/\">Octopulps<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/06\/16\/the-art-of-nobeast\/\">The art of NoBeast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So now that I have your undivided attention&#8230; You&#8217;d think someone would have tried a male variation on Hokusai&#8217;s notorious Dream of the Fisherman&#8217;s Wife (1814) before now but if they have I&#8217;ve not seen it. Hokusai gives us a father-and-son pair of amorous octopuses but the smaller creature is missing from this picture by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/03\/27\/gay-octopus-sex\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gay octopus sex&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[1952,1722],"class_list":["post-11178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-gay","tag-cephalopods","tag-nobeast"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2Ui","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}