A brief history of humans having sex and loving sea creatures in media

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Guillermo Del Toro’s Shape of Water winning Best Picture at the Academy Awards is historic for a number of reasons: it’s one of the few horror films to win Best Picture, and it’s Del Toro’s first Oscar. 

It’s also probably one of the only Oscar-nominated films to include a sex scene between a human being and a sea creature. 

A Shape of Water meme that says 'I'll now proceed to pleasure myself with this fish.'

A Shape of Water meme that says ‘I’ll now proceed to pleasure myself with this fish.’

The underwater sex scene inspired a slew of memes about the mechanics of an interspecies romance with marine life. Someone even made a Shape of Water dildo, so fans can have their very own model of the fish-man’s junk.  Read more…

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