Ahegao: The Hentai Phenomenon No One Needed
What the F#$% is Ahegao?
I have been introduced to a lot of bizarre fetishes throughout my time writing about sex, but the phenomenon of ahegao continues to bemuse and confuse me.
Ahegao, pronounced ah-heh-gah-oh, refers to a facial expression typically characterized by crossed eyes, a dangly tongue, blushing cheeks and a moist trifecta of snot, drool and tears spraying from the face of a person — usually a woman. Essentially, the ahegao face is more comical and disturbing than sexy, and leaves its wearer looking like they licked a toad while trying to get high, but ended up in a hectic K-hole instead.
The term ahegao originated in Japan in the ’60s and only started to gain popularity on the internet in the last decade. The word itself stems from the Japanese word “aheahe,” which refers to someone who is moaning or panting from physical exertion or sexual arousal. The exaggerated facial expression is meant to depict someone who has lost control and is experiencing an orgasm so intense it’s caused them to lose their basic faculties. They have essentially been fucked silly.
While it’s not very realistic, it’s also not a particularly flattering look for the hot chick wearing it. Yet, a rise in the obsession with the expression has seen ahegao go viral, with the funny face even making its way into mainstream culture. Beyond its heavy contribution to ahegao-themed photos and porn, a quick internet search will return a wealth of ahegao memes, ahegao clothing and even ahegao celebrities, like internet cosplayer and nerd dream girl Belle Delphine, who’s managed to build a wildly successful career off the back of her own crossed-eyed, tongue-wagging pictures. On top of that, Reddit’s ahegao-related subreddits have reached more than a quarter million followers, thanks to manga nerds and regular Joes who fantasize about banging a Lolita-esque woman with such wizardry that she can’t even keep her tongue in her own gob.
While some might say ahegao is sexist because it glorifies a lack of female control, others say it’s empowering because it puts women’s pleasure front and center, with them striving to achieve frenzy-inducing ahegao orgasms. Other models who create ahegao content say the niche allows them to explore their sexuality without necessarily being nude or explicit.
Each to their own, but I’ll stick with the K-hole, thanks.
Yeah, so we looked up K-Hole, because clearly at least this author is really, really old, and honestly the experience does not sound all that wonderful at first glance. If you want to experience hallucinogenic effects, just turn on Fox News or MSNBC and try to reconcile what you are hearing with what you know to be true out in the real world. That’ll scramble your brain without risking death. Research being important around here, of course we did more on the main topic at hand. We swear we did not laugh at any of the Ahegao Memes we found either. And you cannot prove any differently.
After that mess, we decided to throw in another quick distraction from Penthouse Vault. You don’t need to feel pressured to join or anything; we simply wanted a sort of sorbet for the mind moment going here. Notice that you see not a single bit of drooling here? … Yeah, that was on purpose. Oh, and for the record, despite what these pictures may look like, none of these women starred in “Flashdance” in the movies or “Hart of Dixie” on television.
