The Picasso Museum in Barcelon has just launched "Secret Images," which explores Picasso's fascination with Japanese erotic art and how it influenced his paintings. The exhibit showcases 19 prints from Picasso's personal collection alongside 27 Picasso works they are believed to have inspired. One of the five rooms in the exhibit focuses on tentacles, and highlights the famed print by Edo period artist Hokusai Katsushika. Hokusai is perhaps best known for his print The Great Wave off Kanagawa, but he also delved into shunga, or erotic art. One of the most famous pieces of Japanese erotic art, Hokusai's Diving Girl with Octopus, was a particular inspiration of Picasso's and Picasso made his own version in 1903.

"Secret Images" runs through February 14th at the Picasso Museum.

Picasso's Japanese erotic inspiration on show in Barcelona [AFP via Japanator]

So let's get this straight... according to Caprica, the human brain only occupies 300 megabytes of hard drive space. But according to this anime, a man's sperm contains a whopping 1600 gigabytes of memory upgrade. That seems a tad skewed, but then again, you never know.

I love the part where the guy's sperm has so much memory in it, that she has to write a whole new directory with her new name attached. He actually names her by fucking her. It's sort of romantic, I guess. And then it works — so go, beam attack! Also, right after this bit, we discover that the other sexbot went crazy because her write-protection was removed, and too many other men were able to write to her directory. In other words, she was a crazy slut bot.

We already featured a different scene from Buttobi CPU in our round-up of sex mechas and space pirates in anime porn, but this sequence is so fantastic, it needed its own post.

Sexy Space Pirates!

Mad Science Is Sexy Science!

Aliens Want Your Sex!

The Sex Mechas!

A lot of the time, the relationship between sex and mechas gets a tad confusing. For example, I'm not entirely sure what's going on in this clip from Inyoku Tokkyuu Zetsurino, because my copy has no subtitles, and my Japanese is beyond rusty at this point. But I think the girl is powering or controlling the giant battle robot by masturbating. Fluent Japanese speakers, help me out: what is going on here? Why is the boss lady nearly naked as well?

And then there's this quintessential sex android moment, from Buttobi CPU. A hapless young nerd (the video carefully notes he is 21) thinks he's bought a new personal computer, but when he gets it home, it turns out to be a sexbot instead. He's taken aback, but that's no problem. The sexbot is... very determined.

After this clip, the wrongness of Buttobi just increases and increases. At one point, they're attacked (Why?) by another sexbot, and "our" sexbot wants to mount a counterattack. But first the guy has to insert an attack protocol into her front data port. (Which is what you think it is.) But her counter-attack is ineffective, and she says she needs a memory upgrade to defeat the other sexbot. The only way for her to upgrade her RAM is for the guy to insert some of his "molecular material" into her rear data port. (Which is what you think it is.) Still later, she gives him a special copy-protection key which will prevent anyone else but him from "writing data" to any of her ports. This key takes the form of a ring which goes on her left ring finger, and signifies that she belongs to him. (Awww. I mean, ewww.)

Compared to Buttobi, the anime Super Sexy Android is downright wholesome. A businessman is walking home, bummed out because he spied on an office lady touching herself and got caught. And meanwhile, a sex android has fallen out of a truck that crashed on the highway. She's out in the middle of nowhere, naked and empty, until she spots the business man. Her programming kicks in, and she decides this is her man. Later, she uses her heat vision (still naked) to cook him dinner at super-speed.

In the anthology series Sintillations, there's also one story called "Go Girl! For World Peace!" where a mad scientist creates a female android who's supposed to solve all the world's conflicts and create world peace. But all she wants to do is get laid. Sad!

In this scene from Dyogrammaton, we discover the answer to our most crucial question: is a cyber-flight suit easy to get out of in a hurry? If you're piloting a giant robot and need to expose your breasts quickly, can you do so? The answer is, yes. Yes, you can.

And then here's a sequence from Junk Story, about a chick who falls in love with a giant robot... unfortunately, he's already in love with another girl. But he finally gets won over, when the blonde girl jumps on him and flashes her panties. I like the way the giant robot somehow blushes.

And here's the happy afterglow of human-robot sex. I like how the robot walks off into the sunset with the blonde girl, still naked, perched on his shoulder. Aww.

Meanwhile, in the cyberpunk anime Luv Wave, it's 2039, and Kaoru is a secret agent who is investigating a mysterious computer virus called XINN and its connection to a weird new drug. He's saddled with a robot partner, Alice. And Alice's programmer, Kanako, has the hots for Kaoru. In this scene, the two humans finally get together, while Alice the robot lies on a table, apparently in shut down mode. But Alice starts to have a subtle reaction to the two humans' passion...

Possibly the wrongest moment of human-alien contact is this scene from Invasion Of The Booby Snatchers. Our young hero wakes up to find a beautiful naked woman next to him in bed. Somehow he manages to grope her without waking her up, and then he ejaculates on her face. The morning facial wakes her up, and she's a bit confused at first. But then she explains that she's an alien from outer space, who's come to visit him to learn about our human mating rituals. Then, to prove her point, she shows him her alien apparatus and tells him about her outer-space people... all the while with his sperm still on her face. It's just one of those Earth customs she's getting used to, I guess.

There's a different kind of wrongness in this sequence from Alien From The Darkness, which we featured a clip from in the main post. The green-haired alien uses her glowing eyes, once again, to fill her friend with lustful thoughts and shred those pesky clothes at the same time.

And then there's the evil Lord Hyouma, from Akiko. I'm honestly not sure if this sequence belongs under "mad science" or "aliens." Lord Hyouma does appear to be some sort of alien, and there's a lot of "mad science" clips already. He's some kind of ancient creature who needs the sexual energies of young healthy people to maintain himself, hence the orgone-siphoning helmets. Wilhelm Reich would be terribly proud.

Like this sequence from the uber-weird hentai video Cambrian, where a crazay scientist has been experimenting with evolving and devolving both men and women. The transformations into snake-tongued, spikey creatures always seem to happen during sex. (Funny how that is.) One guy is a little taken aback to find himself in bed with a she-monster all of a sudden:

Meanwhile, here's a sequence from the hentai video Bondage Queen Kate, which fits into "mad science" more than it did into any other category. Kate is flying across the galaxy on a secret mission (which involves bondage, as you might guess), but her in-flight entertainment gets hacked and starts showing hypnotic sexy images:

And then there's the dystopian future of Angel Core. Young women are turned into super-fighters and become part of a giant-robot-powered human empire that looks vaguely Nazi-ish. The only drawback: in order to activate their superpowers, these women have to have sex. A lot. No, more than that. A lot. It's like a commentary on the way sexuality is sublimated to fuel imperialism. Or something: