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So you have some Half Human Hybrids? What about Petting Zoo People? Rubber Forehead Aliens? Cute Monster Girls? Well, be careful. If a character has some form of non-human anatomy (ears, wings, especially tails), chances are that said physical feature will be... sensitive. Even characters who look mostly human may have erogenous zones in odd areas to establish that they have Bizarre Alien Biology. For obvious reasons, this leads a lot of I Didn't Mean To Turn You On type incidents, especially when one party is unaware that the resident Cat Girl gets aroused when someone strokes her tail.
Also for obvious reasons this leads to a lot of Power Perversion Potential and Fetish Fuel when said characters show up in fanfic. If a character does not possess any known Fantastic Arousal, the fans may create one.
Not to be confused with a character having a strange sexual fetish. For example, Milly May Hopkins of Gunsmith Cats and Nice Holystone of Baccano both have ekrixiphilia, a fetish for explosions and/or gunpowder (which means setting off grenades and shooting guns sexually arouse them), but they are not examples of Fantastic Arousal.
Examples:
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Anime and Manga
- In one episode of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, the team infiltrates a party of wealthy and powerful men who show off their sex-driods. The host goes even further and loves to have sex with full-body cyborgs. While their brains are disconnected from the robotic body and are pretty much in sleep mode. The Major convinces him to plug his implants into her body while he does, but then just knocks him out and lets him experience a virtual simulation of it while she sneaks through his offices.
- Mahou Sensei Negima! has Winged Humanoid Setsuna getting flustered when Asuna starts stroking her wings. Robot Girl Chachamaru's whole key winding incident is a variation.
- They had another go at the key-winding incident in a recent chapter. This one actually left her lying on the floor panting, and in a state of euphoria so powerful the only acknowledgement she gave Negi when he spoke to her was a simple "Mnehh?".
- And now they've introduced a method for Chachamaru to resupply mana to herself. It's treated exactly the way you'd expect.
- The demons from My Balls (don't ask) have each a tattoo somewhere on their body that are both the focus of their demonic powers, and very sensitive to caresses.
- Lizlet from Omamori Himari is a Tsukumogami; to be more precise, she is the spirit of a 100+ year old teacup. Said teacup is also apparently an erogenous zone, judging by her reaction when the title character strokes and licks it in an attempt to wake her up.
- Lala from To Love-Ru; again, the tail. Its most common use besides the pictured teasing is conveniently covering her crotch. Naturally, there's a chapter where Rito gets his hand stuck to Lala's tail. Hilarity Ensues.
- In the first episode of Utawarerumono, Eruru gets annoyed with Hakuoro when he touches her tail. For a second she looks like she really likes it, then seems embarrassed.
- A few moments later in the same episode, two children flick her tail running past, evoking a similar reaction, though the emphasis is put on her anger. In retrospect, she seemed pretty lenient with Hakuoru after what could have been interpreted as him trying to grope her, though details on the issue of a girl's tail as a whole are few.
- Yumeria: Tomokazu had a daydream in which Neneko's ears were her "weak spot".
- According to Holo from Spice and Wolf, wolves touching noses is to them what kissing is to humans. Apparently Lawrence's fingers feel like a wolf's nose. So when he does touch her nose...
- In one episode of FLCL, Naota sprouts cat ears, and Haruko, in typical fashion, teases him by rubbing them, resulting in a wriggling and ebullient Naota.
- The Italy brothers in Axis Powers Hetalia both have an Idiot Hair which acts as an erogenous zone. Germany messes with Italy's, and Spain messes with Romano's because what kind of world would this be if they didn't?
- The Idiot Hair theme had evolved to memetic status applying to almost all nation-tans, considering how many characters of the series have one, though it's probably not true.
- Supposedly Austria has one too, but it's not his Idiot Hair - it's his Beauty Mark.
- In the Hentai manga series Bondage Fairies, the fourth manga - Extreme - reveals that a fairy's antennae are their second most sensitive erogenous zone... and not too far behind the first in sensitivity. This is revealed at the same time we find out why usually-always-horny main character Pamila's antennae are so small as to be hidden by her hair; she was physically & sexually abused as a child, and this somehow stunted their growth. And she is very against the mere idea of anyone touching them, especially the person who currently has her in her clutches.
- In Birdy the Mighty Decode, the beast-people seem to be aroused by having their chins scratched.
- In the manga Tail Chaser, the Cat Girl cast members' tails. Playing with their tails led to Does This Remind You of Anything? rather quickly.
- In Seto no Hanayome, young mermaids grow tails when they get wet. Resisting the transformation results in a tickling sensation, which was milked for all it was worth in one episode when two mermaids practice endurance training.
- On Dragon Crisis!, Ai's ears and tail are very sensitive to touch.
- The spot on Rose's back where her wings come out seems quite sensitive, when Ryuji touches her there she blushes and starts trembling. Then there are the scales on the back on Rose's hand. When Ryuji kissed Rose's scales she practically had an orgasm.
- Dog Days has a basic rewarding treatment for dog-warrior race, patting on his/her head. It's shown through a Tsundere Eclair as she blushes when her princess pat her, but goes mad when the Idiot Hero does it.
Fan Fiction
Film
Literature
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has Eccentrica Gallumbits, the triple-breasted whore of Eroticon VI.
Some people say her erogenous zones start some four miles from her actual body. Ford Prefect disagrees, saying five.
- In Robin Hobb's Ship of Destiny, Malta, as a result of spending a lot of time on the Rain River, ends up with a ridge on her forehead which appears to be, basically, a facial clitoris.
- In Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time, the catlike ears of Ogier are explicitly stated to be erogenous zones. Exposing them completely is scandalous, and Loial becomes embarrassed after accidentally mentioning his fiancee's.
- In the Star Wars Expanded Universe, Gotals' horns are both electromagnetic sensors and erogenous zones. The Twi'lek's head-tentacles likewise.
- Given that the Twi'lek language also involves a body language/signing component using the head tentacles, this effectively makes Twi'lek communication the equivalent of a woman waving her breasts at the person she's speaking to in order to communicate her mood.
- In-story they're explained more as being used like arms; there's a specific sign language that few people of other species understand, but the major use is gesturing and emphasis. Tales From Jabbas Palace has Oola using hers to indicate Sarcasm Mode and express disbelief without anyone but Threepio knowing it.
- Wings were mentioned for Aliisza from War of the Spider Queen. But then, she's Alu-fiend (half-succubus)...
- Apparently Temeraire's tendril-y ruff is like this. Cue very embarrassed Laurence.
- In The Hollows, when Rachel first moves in with her bisexual vampire co-worker Ivy, she unintentionally does a pile of things that tend to arouse vampires, such as borrowing Ivy's clothes (causing their scents to mix). It's made worse by the fact that Ivy has been trying to avoid drinking blood.
- In the His Dark Materials trilogy is it considered taboo to touch the daemon (manifestation of a soul in animal form) of another human being. At the end of the trilogy Will and Lyra accidentally and then deliberately touch each other's daemons, and the subtext couldn't be more obvious.
- Sapient Ship Daisy Mae (USS Des Moines) in the Posleen War Series book Yellow Eyes has a spot directly between her reactors that needs to be scrubbed regularly...
- The section on mermaids in The Encyclopedia Of Fantasy: People of the Light uses this as half a solution for the Mermaid Problem, although it's not the tail, it's the hair.
Ismael Merindol reveals that mermaids spend so much time combing their hair because it that is their erogenous zone, and a source of incomparable pleasure. He writes: "In my youth I had a mermaid for a lover, but I was unable to give her pleasure in the usual way. However, if I scratched her scalp in a certain way she would very quickly swoon away. For what other women have between their legs, mermaids have in their hair."
- This means that all those mermaids you see innocently combing their long tresses are in fact masturbating. Who needs privacy, anyway?
Live Action TV
- Alien Nation: The Tenctonese women are aroused by, among other things, certain notes (coincidentally one of them is the TV test card tone), contact with their lower back but as a species their genitals are less of an issue sexually. (They're egg-layers, sort of— their sex is... complicated.)
- Also, a blow to the armpit has the effect of a Groin Attack on Tenctonese males.
- Ivanova on Babylon 5 takes advantage of this trope to get out of having sex with an alien race that traditionally uses it to conclude negotiations. He goes away with the impression that human sex consists of putting your hand on someone's head and dancing around them singing.
- Although it is unclear how fooled he really was. It would appear most likely he was aware he was being manipulated, but could not object. His own headshake as he left, the meaningful, sarcastic look his interpreter gave her, and the note she received reading: "Next time: my way" (which came with a diaphragm!) seem to indicate that he was indeed aware she'd tricked him, but could not bring himself to admit an "inferior" species had gotten the better of him, and he left to save face.
- Farscape: the Hynerian "ear brow" is very sensitive.
- And don't forget Zhaan's "photogasms". As one character put it "She's a plant. Put her in the light and watch her smile."
- Not to mention a Luxan's "tenkas." The tentacles on a Luxan's head are very sensitive, though in the show it's usually to pain. Though during the body-switching episode, D'argo notes that his "tenkas are a little sore," and he wonders what Chiana was doing with them. Knowing Chiana, she was enjoying her (new) self. A lot.
- Star Trek has the Ferengi, whose ears are an erogenous zone (and "oo-mox" is basically a sex act involving stroking the ears).
- The Ferengi thing is interesting because if you look at it as a stand-in for the penis, you have scenes such as Quark rubbing himself onscreen, a woman trying to get something from a Ferengi by rubbing his groin, and a woman who grabs a Ferengi by "the balls" to bargain with him. There was even a joke about too much oo-mox making you go deaf...
- There is also a point in one of the DS9 books where it is very strongly implied that Ferengi do not, in fact, have penises. Quark, Rom, and Nog go to see the doctor about a rash on their ears, and remark about it being "...the same as if a hu-man got it on their..." though the rest of the sentence is cut off.
- An unintentionally hilarious scene from Voyager involves Chakotay discovering that aliens are leaving carvings of ears at a shrine. He remarks that it must be some kind of fetish, using the anthropological meaning of a ritual object. Then the crew discovers the shrine was built for Ferengi lost through a wormhole...
- Also in Trek, we discover that Cardassians get a bit hot and bothered when somebody strokes their neck ridges.
- For Vulcans, the touching of fingers seems to be equivalent to a kiss. There's a sort of finger caress that's a bit more intimate as well. That's because Vulcans have psychic powers that work by touch. Brushing fingertips specifically isn't anything special, quite the opposite - it's the most skin contact they'll allow (in public).
- Which makes you see the scenes from the first two movies, when Spock almost died and Kirk is holding his hands as he wakes up, and when Spock actually dies and the two are pressing their hands against the window separating them, in a slightly different light. Rumor says that Roddenberry was very well aware of this.
- The 10th Kingdom. For Wolf, it's the tail. He even gets do use it in a Something Else Also Rises sort of way now and then.
- An Italian comedy show once had a sketch featuring an interview with a woman with a wandering G-spot. Obviously, when the host shook her hand...
- An episode of Angel involved a demon species whose females had bony ridges along the spine that became red hot when they were in heat. The extremely patriarchal males of the species would cut off these ridges to keep their females docile, as sexual arousal was implied to make the women supernaturally strong. Of course, the whole episode was a big aesop about female genital mutilation.
- An episode of Merlin has Arthur react with distinct pleasure when Gwen strokes his recently acquired donkey ears (long story).
- The pilot of Battlestar Galactica had the (female) Cylons' spines glow during sex. This was dropped for the rest of the series, however, as a major plot point early on was how to detect the Cylons among the fleet and was pointed out that Baltar had a Cylon detector in his pants.
- From SNL we have the Coneheads, aliens with, what else? Cone-shaped heads! And they have some sort of game or something where they put a special ring on said cones. And guess what? This game has something to do with sex!
- Used in the film as well, when their daughter tries it out with her (human) boyfriend. Her parents freak out on walking in on this.
Video Games
- If any fantasy story has any mentionings about sexuality, elven ears are always erogenous zones. Actually, this is true for many humans as well.
- A fan-made modification to the main campaign of Neverwinter Nights 2 gives Neeshka an... interesting... reaction if you try manipulating her tail without warning.
- That certain conversation with Mordin in Mass Effect 2 hints at this trope, with Mordin offering aides to Shepard which includes "erogenous zone overviews" when romancing either Garrus or Tali, neither or which are human.
- Also, an easily missed conversation in Lair of the Shadow Broker gives us the "Azure", or slang for an asari erogenous zone "in the lower reaches, near the bottom." The end of the DLC hints that this is in the lower back.
- If you're still faithful to Liara, at the end, Shepard's hand goes to said spot, which instantly turns her eyes black with a smile on her face, along with a gasp.
- In Sam And Max Freelance Police: What's New, Beelzebub?, there's a Workplace Sexual Harassment chart which indicates the zones where Sam should not be touched as his crotch and his floppy dog ears. Shambling Corporate Presence's are in a variety of obscure places, the most obvious being the ends of his tentacles. Max just has a big question mark over his body along with a Stop sign and the caption 'approach with caution'.
- In Planescape: Torment, Annah's skin gets hot when she, uh, gets hot.
- In the Old World Blues DLC for Fallout: New Vegas, Dr. Dala is disturbingly fascinated by your breathing due to the fact that as a Brain in a Jar she hasn't had a body of her own in centuries. It's even possible to induce The Immodest Orgasm in her after finding this out.
- In Star Control II, the Slylandro's "glowy bits" are visible to humans but not to Slylandro; the fact that humans can see them makes at least one Slylandro more . . . stimulated.
Slylandro: Ah... your species sees in a different spectrum than we do. We can't see those. As for what they are... erm... well, they're used for... um... when a male and a female... uh, look, can we talk about something else?
Webcomics
- In Keychain of Creation, Marena, the foxy Lunar Exalted, gets very turned on when Racer, a fellow Lunar, starts stroking her ears.
- The D'Bo sisters from Our Home Planet are somewhat of an odd example: Their antennae secrete a protein, that, simply said, at one point causes Rika's finger to have an orgasm. It hasn't been shown yet, but given that the antennae are said to be the most sensitive parts of their biology and that they're their reproductive organs (eww), fiddling with them should have this effect.
- In TwoKinds, this trope is probably the reason why the Basitin consider non-bandaged feet obscene.
- For Uryuom in El Goonish Shive empathy / limited telepathy does most of the job
 (they are androgynous, anyway). It's far from being limited to their own species and this property is inheritable. The genetic lottery leaves some Half Human Hybrids without the human form of attraction and others with a combination of both.
Web Original
- Played straight in Cosmos Eternal. The Fellpool race (no relation to Star Ocean) have prehensile monkey-like tails that keep them balanced when moving, and give them ennate skill with acrobatics. This furry tail is a heavy erogenous zone. Stroking it can make a Fellpool purr like a cat. Heavy stroking can even make a Fellpool sexually aroused. Light nibbling, licking, and other acts can make a Fellpool orgasm. The main character even at one point strips down because of how hot the arousal is making her (much to her crew's mixed reactions). And this affects both male and female Fellpools, but luckily (or unluckily) this pleasure only applies when someone else rubs a Fellpool's tail. On the opposite scale, damage to the tail can be so unbearable that a Fellpool can pass out. Getting their tail cut off has even made some Fellpool who aren't combat-trained die from the pain.
- Featherfolk (also no relation to Star Ocean) are similarly affected with their wings. The downside, however, is that their wings are so goddamn sensitive that just grabbing one can make them cry out in agony. Plucking even a single feather is painful enough to make them pass out or empty their bowels. Serenity apparently had her rare golden feathers plucked by slavers, which is noted in that her wings have some patches with no feathers. It's explicitly stated that, theoretically, a Featherfolk could feel pleasure from their wings' sensitivity. But their sensitivity is so great that few things can tough them light enough to cause pleasure without crossing into pain. Serenity is noted as enjoying light breezes, it seems... Hmm...
- Chimeras, animal-human hybrids, get this treatment with their ears and tails.
- For Shirelings in Tales of MU, it's strongly implied to be the feet.
Western Animation
- Spoofed in a Robot Chicken short; a character wishes for unicorns to be real, after which one appears at his window and takes him away to have "fun adventures"... which include stripping down and polishing his "magic horn".
- When she was freed from her cuffs by Robin in Teen Titans, Starfire pulled him in and kissed him (her alien biology has a power that lets her learn languages through "lip contact"). She didn't know what a kiss really was on Earth at the time, but she later realizes that it means "more... or so [she] has heard."
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