Erotic literature
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The term erotic literature refers to fictional or factual stories and accounts of eros intended to sexually arouse readers. This may overlap yet also contrast with erotica, which focuses more specific
Clay tablet with a Sumerian love poem from the 3rd millennium BCE
Illustration based on Kama Sutra, ancient Hindu text about erotic love
Illustration by Maurice Ray for Pierre Louÿs's Aphrodite: mœurs antiques (1896)
Erotic literature going up in smoke and its distributors being put in jail, courtesy of Anthony Comstock's New York Society for the Suppression of Vice
Erotic art
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Erotic art is a broad field of the visual arts that includes any artistic work intended to evoke arousal. It usually depicts human nudity or sexual activity, and has included works in various visual m
Erotic literature
…erotica, which focuses more specifically on sexual feelings. Other common elements are satire and social criticism. Much erotic literature features erotic art to illustrate the text. Although cultural disapproval of erotic literature has always existed, its circulation was not seen as a major problem before…
The Venus of Willendorf, a figurine with exaggerated sexual characteristics. Estimated to have been made c. 30,000 years ago
Clay plaque. India. 1st century BCE.
Interior of an Attic cup depicting a "courting couple at the symposium" or a "Symposium scene with youths", by a painter from Colmar, from around 500 - 450 BCE, displayed in the Louvre Museum
Shunga print, by Hokusai, from Japan around 1815–1823