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Ancient Erotica

dogjones

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OK, these are fascinating for many reasons. Partly that this incredibly ancient erotica gives one an instant connection to these old, old, long gone ancestors of ours… they were just like us! Oh, the shared humanity throughout the ages, etc etc…

But mostly because #11 was excavated at the site of My Thuat. HUZZAH!
 
Well, they may have been like us but the Church certainly helped them to "mature" past their ancient, prurient and immoral ways until the gays, feminists, liberals and atheists drug us back there.

#13 looks like a torn groin waiting to happen. When you have to have someone help you have sex, you're entering some very interesting territory.
 
Cool!

I've always loved the Greek, Roman and Indian stuff.
The Peruvian figures have certain comedic edge, I'm not sure if it was intentional.
 
The History of Sex offers a quite extensive view of sexuality around the world and through the ages. An interesting documentary that should be a required viewing for all the people that blame the current "moral decadence" on the evils of modern society, secularism, atheism, humanism, etc.
 
Question: how long after the successful invention of the first camera was a naked/seminaked woman in front of it? Any bets on that? :)
 
The Sex Museum in Amsterdam (just across from the train station) has a lot of replicas of pieces like this. The erotic delftware is also interesting.

Or so I've heard...:)
 
Magnifico2.0 said:
Question: how long after the successful invention of the first camera was a naked/seminaked woman in front of it? Any bets on that? :)
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Errrrm - well it was important to check that the new technology could resolve areas of skin tone.....it was purely scientific..:o
 
Magnifico2.0 said:
Question: how long after the successful invention of the first camera was a naked/seminaked woman in front of it? Any bets on that? :)
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I'm sure it's some kind of law of nature that: Every new imaging technology will first be tested on porn. I can't think of a single exception.
 
I like to go to antique auctions, and it is always fun to find those stereospecs from the early 1900s (little glasses that you stick a picture card into and it views in 3D - kind of like the early version of a Viewmaster). They invariably come with naked women picts.

Psi Baba, I will proffer the actual Viewmaster as an exception, although as I note, that is just a later generation of stereospecs.
 
Psi Baba said:
I'm sure it's some kind of law of nature that: Every new imaging technology will first be tested on porn. I can't think of a single exception.
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Sorry, I had to fix your statement. There's no technology that can be pornofied.
 
They must have had a diet heavy in trans-fat, sugar, and carbs 35,000 to 25,000 years ago, the first two are certainly well fed. Why is that? Surely women of that time weren't grossly obese. Or was that thought to be the ideal in female beauty? Pregnancy related? and thereby indicative of fertility?
 
bickerer said:
They must have had a diet heavy in trans-fat, sugar, and carbs 35,000 to 25,000 years ago, the first two are certainly well fed. Why is that? Surely women of that time weren't grossly obese. Or was that thought to be the ideal in female beauty? Pregnancy related? and thereby indicative of fertility?
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Magnification of the sexual traits of females is common in depictions of early godesses all over Europe and Asia , including those of Yahweh's wife Asherah found in quantities all over Canaan before the time of Josiah. Emphasis on sex and sexual parts of females is usually interpreted to be prayer for abundance and fecundity. These aren't representations of actual women, these are prayers for gowth and abundance.
 
shadron said:
Magnification of the sexual traits of females is common in depictions of early godesses all over Europe and Asia , including those of Yahweh's wife Asherah found in quantities all over Canaan before the time of Josiah. Emphasis on sex and sexual parts of females is usually interpreted to be prayer for abundance and fecundity. These aren't representations of actual women, these are prayers for gowth and abundance.
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I wonder what archaeologists and historians 2000 years in the future will say about today's fashion models and icons of beauty. Ritualistic fastings to appease the god Dior? Slave servants of the Haute Couture tribe? Religious meanings will be ascribed to each body piercing and tattoo. Blow-up dolls will be symbols of fecundity and prosperity.
 

Part 4-V.S. Ramachandran "Neurology and the Passion for Art"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfkBWIsh9mo&feature=related​
Why is it that great works of art seem to have a universal appeal, transcending cultural and geographic boundaries?

V.S. Ramachandran, director of UCSD's Center for Brain and Cognition has studied how the brain perceives works of art and thinks he may know the answer to this intriguing question.

This is Part 4 of 8.
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Discusses the Rasa (the essence) of the Kajuraho 9th Century sculptures depicting "amorous ecstasy" and/or "conjugal bliss"
 
Magnifico2.0 said:
Question: how long after the successful invention of the first camera was a naked/seminaked woman in front of it? Any bets on that? :)
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The story goes that Daguerre made the first sucessful camera and took the very first picture on a bright and sunny morning January 7. 1839. Later that day, when Daguerre was out in town telling about his new invention, his assistant convinced the house maid to strip and pose in front of the camera. ;)
 
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