It is notable that the American anime-tinted femdom vogue quickly skipped past tsundere and even yandere to “this girl is, by nature, a predator of you”

What is up with monster porn, anyway? It’d be easy to chalk it up to the maturation of the teen supernatural romance trend that Twilight kicked off, but that doesn’t account for why at the same time 4chan is all of a sudden in love with lamia and slime girls by way of moe anthropomorphication, does it? And then you’ve got things like Corruption of Champions or SABBAT that take it further into a sort of erotic body horror in a way that shades into the emerging avant-garde transgender chic.

I guess the unifying trait is a transcendence of physical human form, an ideal that in the previous generation was mapped to the potential of computer networks - cyberspace/the Metaverse/Second Life - that proved less than fulfilling. Maybe it’s a subliminated reaction to the taming and enclosure of the internet frontier that’s got us longing to be raped by genderfluid werebees.

Or hell, maybe the stars are just aligned right to tune the zeitgeist to that frequency. It’s happened before - Flowers in the Attic and the Blue Lagoon movie were the tip of a now largely forgotten iceberg of a “lost children’s incestuous awakening” pulp boom in the 70s/80s.