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Topic: Ancient erotic art Posted: 21-Dec-2006 at 23:11 |
Are we allowed posting & discussing examples of ancient (authentic) erotic art if it's not too explicit?
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Posted: 21-Dec-2006 at 23:27 |
Example:
These girls are visiting a brothel in the ancient city of Pompeii:
On the walls are frescoes like this:
Edited by Hellios - 21-Dec-2006 at 23:33
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Posted: 21-Dec-2006 at 23:52 |
Well photoraphy was a little underdevloped in 70 AD. So I seriusly doubt you'll have screen shots like, "Naughty from naples", "Busty Britannia", "Amazing Arabian".
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Posted: 22-Dec-2006 at 04:53 |
Sparten, you'd be amazed by how explicit it gets. I've seen acient Greek vases in museums that can compete with the whole of the upper shelf magazine range. I could post you examples, but like Hellios I wonder if it would be allowed as it is very much not suitable for kids....
And not only the ancients had a dirty mind: there are also some pretty unbelievable things in stonework on a large number of medieval cathedrals in Europe....
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Posted: 22-Dec-2006 at 09:30 |
I am sure they had dirty minds, how else you could get them to repopulate the planet? And I saw some stuff in Athen's musumes which well would certainly qualify as porno (now and then). My point was simply that the medium for captuting such images was a bit underdevloped. In other words, nom photography and realistic true to life images did not really come in any numbers till the 1500's.
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Posted: 22-Dec-2006 at 10:52 |
Check this:
first sex movie ever... (don't worry suitable for minors too...funny, not shocking )
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Posted: 22-Dec-2006 at 11:49 |
I think that certainly Indian erotic art (a good example is Chola art from the 9th to the 12th centuries AD), deserves a mention. Mostly sculpture, but also painting, are explicit to say the least. However, they were not pornographic, but rather religious in nature, as they believed sex to be a way to celebrate nature and God.
Also, Japan has a long tradition of erotic art. Most of the erotic art we have is from the Edo period (1642-1859). It is also unique in depicting many scenes of rape.
Unfortunately, there are not too many Internet resources on this subject, as it is still rather taboo.
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Posted: 24-Dec-2006 at 10:37 |
Silver coin from Thasos, Greece, circa 500-463 BC. A man carries off a protesting woman, who wears a chiton. Reverse: quadripartite incuse square.
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Posted: 24-Dec-2006 at 11:34 |
Ah the good old days. When guys like me could actually get cooperation from the ladies.
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Posted: 24-Dec-2006 at 16:00 |
Originally posted by Aelfgifu
Check this:
first sex movie ever... (don't worry suitable for minors too...funny, not shocking )
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hehe I liked it verry funny (but i'm kinda bumed out didn't see all of the movie )
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Posted: 16-Jan-2007 at 17:07 |
You should check out the Greek vases that show pederasty (the custom of older men having sexual relationships with boys) in action. The usual motive is a big guy with a beard fondling the jewels of a beardless youth.
Example 1
Example 2
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Posted: 16-Jan-2007 at 17:37 |
wow shocking!! I knew about this about the ancient greeks and their artistic works but never ever saw it
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Posted: 16-Jan-2007 at 19:21 |
Originally posted by Reginmund
You should check out the Greek vases that show pederasty (the custom of older men having sexual relationships with boys) in action. The usual motive is a big guy with a beard fondling the jewels of a beardless youth.
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Originally posted by Ikki
wow shocking!! I knew about this about the ancient greeks and their artistic works but never ever saw it |
Adding to your ancient gay art Reginmund:
I hope Ikki won't be too shocked.
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Posted: 17-Jan-2007 at 03:58 |
That Japanese one is not gay Hellios... Surely you can see the difference?
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Posted: 17-Jan-2007 at 05:22 |
Originally posted by Reginmund
You should check out the Greek vases that show pederasty (the custom of older men having sexual relationships with boys) in action. The usual motive is a big guy with a beard fondling the jewels of a beardless youth.
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This one is Zeus seducing Ganymedes. It's a mythological scene.
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Posted: 17-Jan-2007 at 05:45 |
Originally posted by Aelfgifu
That Japanese one is not gay Hellios... Surely you can see the difference? |
Isn't it 2 women?
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Posted: 17-Jan-2007 at 11:41 |
Hm, it might be... Hard to tell what the right one is... perhaps you are right.
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Posted: 17-Jan-2007 at 16:21 |
Two women, yes, you can tell it by the way their hair is done. As far as I know it has never been fashionable for Japanese men to wear their hair like that, so I think we're on safe ground.
As for the Egyptian one, I don't think it's explicit enough to be interepreted as homosexual; it merely shows two men facing each other.
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Posted: 17-Jan-2007 at 21:40 |
Originally posted by Reginmund
As for the Egyptian one, I don't think it's explicit enough to be interepreted as homosexual; it merely shows two men facing each other. |
The right man's right arm is around the left man. See the fingers over the left man's right shoulder.
The left man's left hand is holding the right man's left forearm.
The lips kinda close. Noses touching I think, not sure, you might be right!
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Posted: 18-Jan-2007 at 13:00 |
Still, hugging and kissing is and has been considered an appropriate greeting gesture between males in many cultures. Not, however, in my own, nor in yours I expect, Hellios, so I think our cultural background more than anything else leads us to think of homosexuality.
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