Originally posted by Nick1986
Erotica dates back to the Stone Age. Here is a carving of a fertility goddess
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I don't see as erotic art, but as a religious one - a statuette of a Mother Goddess, or a fertility goddess is a religious object, not an erotic one. For sure it didn't carry erotic meaning for the people who consider this a representation of a goddess, not more than a icon of Virgin Mary has an erotic meaning for a say, Catholic. Now for us being disconnected from the ancient way of thinking that produced it it may seem erotic because it represents a naked woman, but this would be taking it out of the context that provided for it's creation.