Heated

Came for the porn. Stayed for the dissertation on the etymology of the word 'futanari'. 10/10.

@Yomai now js go crawl back 2 concord lmfao, ure cringe & wrong
@GDOOK20 based ????

@Yomai maybe bc DEY R *ACTUAL* futas? & not fake 1s? lmfao, also REAL futas (wiv vagina) r wayyy much better dan fake "futas", so pls kindly stfu & go do sm research instead.
"It's so ironic that even on Pixiv, several Japanese artists have admitted this.":
1) Source?
2) So wt if dey did? Dey r NOT de authority, & neider r u

more juno in cage please!!

To add on to what Aredes is saying.

Everytime I see this dude post this nonsense he got from chatgpt I'm just gonna post my debunk again.

Nice chatgpt but no.

You claim that futanari has existed as a real, historical classification for over a thousand years is simply a myth that confuses contemporary hentai terminology with older Japanese words that had ENTIRELY different meanings.

The use of the word futanari (成 or ふたなり) is referring to a woman with both female and male genitalia, male genitalia, or just the rod and the vag. In erotic anime or manga or anything porn related, is a purely fictional and modern fantasy concept, popularized in postwar Japanese pornography, especially from the 1980s onward. Historically, the word did exist in Japan, but it actually meant something completely different. In early Japanese usage during the Heian and Edo periods, futanari meant “dual form” or “androgynous nature”, it was used to describe people, animals, or even spirits perceived as having both masculine and feminine characteristics in a poetic or spiritual sense as Japan especially during these periods were very spirit so it did not refer to literal anatomy combining male and female sex organs, and it was certainly not a social or biological classification lol.

There's also no historical record from the Asuka, Heian, or Edo periods describing “males with breasts” being called futanari in any medical, legal, or cultural document. Pre-modern Japan had concepts of gender fluidity and performers (such as onnagata in kabuki theater) who played female roles, but those traditions had to do with gender performance, not intersex conditions or eroticized depictions of hermaphroditic anatomy. The idea of a “futanari” with a penis and breasts in an erotic context is simply a late 20th-century invention.

The “futanari” concept doesn’t describe trans women or intersex folks at all, it’s an entirely fictional erotic archetype that blends masculine and feminine anatomy for fantasy purposes, not anything real.


For the last part.

Even if they don’t have a vagina or if their anatomy mixes female and male traits or thing like that
In hentai and or porn, futanari characters are consistently portrayed as biological women (female body, female identity, often born female in the story) who happen to have male genitalia, sometimes in addition to female genitalia, sometimes instead of it. They are not depicted as “men who became women” or “trans women” in the real-world sense. Instead, the futa concept is a fantasy of sexual duality, an imagined form of womanhood that possesses both sets of traits for erotic or symbolic purposes.

Even when a futa character is drawn with only a penis and no vagina, the story and world they belong to still treat them as female. They are written, voiced, and identified as women — using female pronouns, having female secondary sex characteristics (like breasts, hips, and voice), and being categorized narratively as “women.” as they are biologically women, not shemale or intersex.

This distinction matters because it shows how futanari isn’t about real-world gender identity or biology. It’s not an attempt to depict trans women, intersex people, or any real human condition. It’s a fictional erotic trope and a creative exaggeration of it all that imagines a woman with additional anatomy for the sake of fantasy.

And that's not even talking the aspect of Sci fi and fantasy, in many cases the futa is what you (person I'm responding to) is an actual woman with a vagina and no male stuff but they either get scientifically altered or magically altered and guess what they are called? Futanari, not anything real your describing.

Interesting stuff, but thanks overall.

@Boy °•^
Simple and correct ansver is because Futanari and Shemale is different fundamentally, and it's not any more "correct" if it's made in Japan.

Person can born as hermaphrodite, albeit it is exaggerated in porn. Shemale on the other hand is an outcome of a surgery and hormonal treatment.
What comes to the "gay" part, it's not hard to understand why many people think futanari, hermaphrodite, a person basically born with both genitals is not as gay as a man turned to woman through treatments and surgery.
Judged on how you worded your comment tho, I have a suspicion you don't even know what hermaphrodite is.

There is an extremely simple and logical answer to the question the other user (the schizo one) has, but I won't say it because it's funnier that way.

What is this guy yapping about

Why does Juno look like a zombie

(I know it's a matter of taste, but this is already outdated.)

What garbage. It even looks ugly, as if it were made by AI. Actually, that's not even the main problem. Why do Westerners keep insisting on adding vaginas to shemales (subcategory: futanari from the Asuka, Heian, and Edo periods, when the term was originally broad)? You know, the top 5 current animators don't include vaginas, so why not just follow their damn lead? I know the overwhelming majority of the futanari/shemale audience is men—that's pretty obvious from the data, behavioral science, and psychology—but having a vagina on the character doesn't make you any less gay. And another thing: until you prove that vagina is functional like their male genitalia—meaning it produces female gametes—she'll just be an intersex man, just like the vast majority of Eastern futanari. It's so ironic that even on Pixiv, several Japanese artists have admitted this.

I love shemales