• VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf
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      1 year ago

      TIL, after thinking for about 20 years that it meant “perversion” or something similar because that’s what I was told when I first as🤦😂

      • wisplike_sustainer@suppo.fi
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        1 year ago

        Well, it kinda, sorta does.

        Hentai is a compound of ‘hen’ and ‘tai’, which mean ‘weird’ and ‘appearance’, respectively. Hentai means ‘transformation’ or ‘abnormality’. If we’re talking about sex, it’s usually shortened from ‘hentai seiyoku’, ‘abnormal sexual want’, or to put it bluntly, perversion.