Cartoon porn, short for cartoon pornography, is a genre of sexually-explicit content featuring hand- and computer-drawn characters. It may feature original characters or existing pop culture characters. Many cartoon porn images and videos feature comic book superheroes, Disney princesses, and characters from cartoon series such as "The Simpsons" and "Family Guy". There are some subgenres of cartoon porn focusing on particular characters. For example, the cartoon porn called "clop" features characters from “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.”
The origins of cartoon porn trace back to the 1920s, when animated films such as “The Virgin with the Hot Pants” and “Buried Treasure” featured erotic sequences. The kind of content that most people associate with cartoon porn today began was the advent of Japanese hentai in the 1980s. Cartoon porn became widespread across the globe with the rise of the internet. The internet helped people interested in cartoon porn find one another and share content. People also began creating cartoon porn specifically for online consumption.
The style of art in cartoon porn is often called Western hentai, as it is a Western-style of art inspired by the Japanese erotic anime and manga, called hentai. However, cartoon porn is often used as an umbrella term for hentai and the Western-inspired equivalent.
As cartoon porn features drawn characters in place of real actors, anything and everything is possible. Human bodies are not confined to what is real and people can easily have sex with animals, anthropomorphic creatures, plants, robots, monsters, or anything the creator’s imagination dreams up, which brings up the possibility of unethical or illegal situations, particularly where there are issues of bestiality, pedophilia or assault.
The fantasy element of cartoon porn typically extends to its characters. Their features are often exaggerated, with enormous breasts and enormous erections common. These features are often so extreme that no human could function with them. The characters are hypersexualized, allowing us to see the bodies that have little in common with real human bodies.
