Oh my, this is an interesting topic indeed. I'll have to go back and read through all of this. Stories about finding out about stuff like this are always interesting.
In any case, I discovered hentai at the same time I discovered porn in general. I mean, obviously, I knew porn existed, despite being somewhat repressed. I'd never, you know, seen it with my own eyes and wasn't quite sure what people did in it, but I knew about it. It was out there.
Watching. Waiting. Ready to strike and sink its fangs into me. Or whatever porn did. All I knew was that it involved naked ladies, since I hadn't figured out sex yet.
Anyways, I was doing some searching online, regarding video games, though I cannot recall my age exactly. It was back in the days when ask.com was still Ask Jeeves. I loved that. The idea that a butler was somehow providing me with information that I searched for was such a kick for me. I clicked, without looking much, at the links Jeeves had served me on the big, shiny silver platter known as my monitor.
How surprised I was when I clicked on one of the links and found, instead of what I expected, breasts! This site was indeed about games, but they were adult games! The site had a picture of a picture of a lady wearing skimpy underwear, and not much else, while crouching down. Her chest was exposed for all to see! It was utterly shocking! I quickly closed the window, since others were in the room, but couldn't help but look back whenever I was alone.
Well, one thing led to another, and I jumped from site to site, amazed at this brand new world full of pictures that gave me tingly sensations...which I didn't know what to do about, since I didn't figure out masturbation until a good year or two after I found porn. However, the second or third site I visited, it had something interesting. Drawn picture of women having sex. Those Sailor Scouts, who I'd seen on TV often enough when tuning into Cartoon Network when I could.
I was blown away, astounded. Who the FUCK needed REAL people when you could draw such things? My world was revolutionized. I no longer felt like I was insane for having those funny feelings whenever Chun Li was my opponent in SF2. Fictional characters, having sex with the power of drawing! I only learned later that this was referred to as hentai, but my world was being rocked by it before I really knew what it was talking about. I had to have more, but all I could find was this real girl crap.
Eventually, the Anime Turnpike saved me. I found several sites there. A Tenchi site with a few naughty pictures of Ayeka. Some place run by a guy called Streetlife! Canadian Sailor Moon hentai! My thirst grew! I had to have more! E-hentai! Doujin domination! Nothing was enough! I moved on, found more sites! Danbooru, NVhentai! And,looking in the signature of somebody on NVforums, I found Fakku, a place that overjoyed me and filled the hole in my heart left by a Japanese-run doujin site that seemed to have everything and then shut down. That is my story full circle!
That is how I discovered hentai! How my young, repressed heart began to cast off its shackles, and melt its chains with fiery resolve! How my hot blooded love affair with hentai got started! CAN YOU FEEL MY PASSION, BROTHERS AND SISTERS?