Monster Porn?

[Elder-Basilisk]

I think the big fault here is assuming that all other races are "like us." The default D&D assumption for elves, dwarves, orcs, hobgoblins, giants, etc. is that they are really like a very small subgroup of us. Dwarves are honorable, vengeful, workaholic craftsmen with a strong code of clan obligation. Orcs are tribalistic humanoids that embody the worst of the various ancient propaganda stories about the headhunters, mongols, and Indians as well as the worst of the modern propaganda stories about the Evil White Colonists (TM) with all of the nuance and most of the exceptions removed. Hobgoblins are the same but they combine the worst of the Romans, Assyrians, and Evil White Imperialists (TM) instead. Etc. etc. In keeping with this, it's likely that non-human races would be similarly monolithic in their other practices. (After all, if the demi-humans stop being monolithic, they are reduced to funny looking humans that produce templated offspring).

Expanding this to races like aboleth, Kuo Toa, Sahaugin, Myconids, Lizardfolk, Illithids, Beholders, etc begs the question of whether or not they're really like us in that respect. As others have said here, what makes people think that sex has the same meaning to species that don't have the same reproductive methods as us? Why then would we presume that they share the practices of the Kinsey foundation's interpretation of 20th century America?

 

[Wycen]

Back to the topic, I'd have a room , perhaps the boss mercenaries, filled with brocades, tapestries, mosaics on the walls, etc. That way it is all in one place and if it is of various types and details, the characters wont miss the clue of what it really is. Basically it would be the leaders "den of iniquity" or whatever you want to call it.

 

[Shemeska]

The closest that I ever came to touching this particular subject was a largely veiled subplot in one game of mine that involved a particularly unhealthy love triangle between three fiends. I didn't have anything detailed that classified as pr0n, but one of the PCs stumbled across a bit of the details after one of the trio of fiends was petrified (while Astrally projecting and color pool diving to create a surrogate body w/out risk of being actually hurt). Mental contact with an imprisoned fiend is typically unwise, and this was no exception. Mind games on a few levels, but the extraction of memories and information went both ways. Made for some interesting views on some of the NPCs, just flavor that was background for the overall plot.

To be honest it was more in the line of misguided romance among people in need of relationship counseling (and redemption), than it was pr0n, though snippets of memories were to be honest, explicit.

(those following my story hour will likely get details eventually, but it's much further in the future, plotwise)

And there was also that Tanar'ri brothel that was established to lower property values on an inn the PCs owned as retribution for some slights against a particular personage in Sigil.

 

[Gez]

Dwarf porn:

Cloud giant porn:

 

[Ao the Overkitty]

While my group was raiding a Wererat's theives guild, they came upon some barracks wthin. They took it upon themselves to check under the mattresses for loot. They found some erotic drawings of Humans, and kept looking. Then they found some erotic drawings of Elves, and kept looking. Finally they found some erotic drawings of Wererats. The character went, "EWW!" dropped it, and they all stopped looking.

I found it rather funny at the time.

 

[Gnarlo]

Dwarf porn:

What? No beard?
Didn't think we were supposed to get into the kinky stuff...

 

[ConnorSB]

I'm just gonna post on here, so that way I can brag to everyone else that "hey, I posted on the monster porn thread"

Oh, and as for something constructive to the topic. Maybe lizardfolk really like a good hot rock to bask on? Put a magically heated "rock bed" in thier cave, cause, you know, lizards like heat.

 

[barsoomcore]

"Beholder whoopie"

That's brilliant. I mean, seriously. There's a reason to play D&D, all on its own. Beholder whoopie.

 

[Djeta Thernadier]

As an avid student of both art history and erotica I would say that "porn" or erotica is the second most popular subject in all art from all cultures. Perhaps the first.

I can't think of any art producing culture that didn't produce tons of porn.

One reason you may not be seeing all of it is ownership. The worlds largest collection of erotic art belongs to- (drumroll) The Vatican. Chambers and chambers full of Greek, Roman, Medieval, Chinese, Japanese and African erotica sit in the Vatican storehouses.

Look closely, no subkject has had such universal attention paid to it in art.

This is true, but you can't really call it porn. I study erotica too and I think there is a distinct difference between erotica and porn.
Erotica may invoke sexual feelings, but generally in a tasteful way.
Porn sometimes involves farm animals. ( )

But for the sake of this thread, lets say all sexual depictions (or nude paintings/photos) are porn.

Why do people like porn? Because we appreciate the beauty of the human form. Because we are wired for sexual behavior. Because sex is why we are all here and is what drives our species to go on.

That said, I agree with several earlier posts that while humans, and perhaps elves, who have a deep appreciation of appearences and beauty may have porn like things, I don't know that a species that does not view sex the same way would. For example, porn would probably not be very exciting to a cat or a dog (although, I did hear they recently showed a Panda who wouldn't mate a video of another Panda and her mate going at it...didn't work). Would this sort of thing really excite an orc ?

I don't know. I tend to think that they (and other such beasties) would be more excited by violence, treasure etc. I'd expect to find a stockpile of weapons, treasures, etc at their camp; not the latest centerfold from PlayOrc.

 

[Thauredhel]

For example, porn would probably not be very exciting to a cat or a dog

Catnip. That's porn for cats. Or crack for cats. Or both