There’s exceptions, of course you’re right. But it became way more common in and after the 1980s. Even in earlier cartoons there were “sexy” animal humans, but they were usually mocking the human, not actually there to be human. Even in your example the anthropomorphizing is weird, not really Lola Bunny part of the show.
Oh certainly. I do recall several cartoons (reruns from ‘40s and earlier) that had deer or other animals turning into smokin’ hot pinup farm girls luring inept farm boys on the hunt or to explain the male animal’s lust. Then again, the appearance was often brief and they tended to not be three dimensional characters like modern ones.
There are probably at least two factors, as someone who is unfit to comment this confidently on the question.
On the one hand you have a coming of age of kids who were exposed to a high dose of Warner Brothers smut.
Many of them are coming of age at the same time as the internet, making it easier for a niche community to form or be found and grow.
This seems totally plausible but again, I’m bereft of actual knowledge on this topic and I’m at least partially trying to provoke someone better fit to the question to educate me.
Here’s the original sexy-dog version of Betty Boop cast as a sex worker a sailor visits in 1930. This stuff has been going in in cartoons for about as long as there have been cartoons.
There’s exceptions, of course you’re right. But it became way more common in and after the 1980s. Even in earlier cartoons there were “sexy” animal humans, but they were usually mocking the human, not actually there to be human. Even in your example the anthropomorphizing is weird, not really Lola Bunny part of the show.
The explanation everyone is missing here is the Hays Code.
Pre code movies from the 20’s and 30’s can be quite racy, even occasionally including things like gay people.
Oh certainly. I do recall several cartoons (reruns from ‘40s and earlier) that had deer or other animals turning into smokin’ hot pinup farm girls luring inept farm boys on the hunt or to explain the male animal’s lust. Then again, the appearance was often brief and they tended to not be three dimensional characters like modern ones.
There are probably at least two factors, as someone who is unfit to comment this confidently on the question.
On the one hand you have a coming of age of kids who were exposed to a high dose of Warner Brothers smut.
Many of them are coming of age at the same time as the internet, making it easier for a niche community to form or be found and grow.
This seems totally plausible but again, I’m bereft of actual knowledge on this topic and I’m at least partially trying to provoke someone better fit to the question to educate me.
I’m tempted to think there was some creepy Epstein kind of deal going on behind the scenes
Thank you for the added erudition WorldsDumbestMan
My off the cuff guess would be the success of who framed Roger rabbit even if Jessica rabbit was not an animal.