Weird Erotica — Illustration of Bigfoot standing with a blonde woman in a pink dress by a lake

Weird Erotica

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Published October 5, 2026

Weird Erotica is a self-published genre of short adult novellas featuring graphic sexual encounters with cryptids, dinosaurs, aliens and anthropomorphized objects. The format took off in 2011 after Virginia Wade's "Cum For Bigfoot" earned up to $30,000 a month on Amazon's Kindle store, and author Chuck Tingle later turned the subgenre into recursive internet art.

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Overview

Also known as "monster porn" or "cryptozoological erotica," the genre pairs human narrators with bigfoots, minotaurs, gargoyles, dinosaurs or anthropomorphized objects in short Kindle novellas1. Covers follow a stock romance-novel template of a shirtless man standing in front of an absurd creature, like the top-hatted, monocled triceratops on Chuck Tingle's "My Billionaire Triceratops Craves Gay Ass"6.

Tingle's "Tinglers" pushed the format into recursive meta-comedy with books such as "Pounded In The Butt By My Book 'Pounded In The Butt By My Own Butt'"7. The under-50-page novellas sell for a few dollars each through Kindle Direct Publishing, letting authors blast out dozens of titles chasing niche search terms10.

Origin & Background

Platform
Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing
Creator
Virginia Wade
Date
2011

In December 2011, stay-at-home mother Virginia Wade self-published the novella "Cum For Bigfoot" through Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing5. The book was downloaded more than 100,000 times during 2012, bringing Wade between $6,000 and $30,000 a month2. Wade (a pseudonym) extended the title into a 16-book series, and Penthouse named Bigfoot leader of the "paranormal pack" in 20121.

How It Spread

In October 2013, UK-based Kernel Magazine published "An Epidemic of Filth," pressuring retailers to clear adult self-publishing titles from their stores5. On October 12, after The Mail on Sunday alerted executives, high-street chain WHSmith took its entire website offline to purge sexually explicit ebooks sitting next to children's books3. Kobo executive Michael Tamblyn called the resulting takedowns "erotica-gate" in a November 27 industry speech8.

Business Insider covered the Amazon crackdown on December 21, 20132, and Redditor porn_flakes reposted the piece to /r/offbeat on December 26, drawing more than 1,100 upvotes9. Jezebel profiled Wade in January 20144, and The Daily Beast ran a long feature calling the quotes from "Cum For Bigfoot" examples of "sparkling prose" (its description, not a compliment)1.

The genre's second wave came through Chuck Tingle. On December 9, 2014, Tingle released "My Billionaire Triceratops Craves Gay Ass"6, followed by 15 more titles across three months including "Space Raptor Butt Invasion" and "Pounded by President Bigfoot." "Pounded In The Butt By My Own Butt" dropped on March 19, 2015, with a recursive sequel ten days later7. The Daily Dot ran an interview headlined "Pounded in the butt by the mystery of Chuck Tingle" in April 201611, and Tingle's January 12, 2017 Reddit AMA pulled over 52,400 votes within 17 hours12.

Timeline

2011-12

Virginia Wade self-publishes "Cum For Bigfoot" on Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing.

2014-12-09

Chuck Tingle releases "My Billionaire Triceratops Craves Gay Ass."

2015-03-19

Tingle releases "Pounded In The Butt By My Own Butt," followed by a recursive sequel.

2016-04-25

The Daily Dot publishes a long interview with Chuck Tingle.

2017-01-12

Chuck Tingle's /r/IAmA AMA pulls over 52,400 votes.

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