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Erotic Kama statues at the Khajuraho Temple, India

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Erotica is art, literature or photography that deals substantively with subject matter that is erotic, sexually stimulating or sexually arousing. Some critics regard pornography as a type of erotica, but many consider it to be different. Erotic art may use any artistic form to depict erotic content, including painting, sculpture, drama, film or music. Erotic literature and erotic photography have become genres in their own right. Erotica also exists in a number of subgenres including gay, lesbian, women's, monster, tentacle erotica and bondage erotica.

Curiosa are curiosities or rarities, especially unusual or erotic books. In the antiquarian book trade, pornographic works are often listed under "curiosa", "erotica" or "facetiae". (Full article...)

Pornography (colloquially called porn, porno, and XXX, pronounced "triple X") is sexually suggestive material, such as a picture, video, text, or audio, intended for sexual arousal. Made for consumption by adults, pornographic depictions have evolved from cave paintings, some forty millennia ago, to modern-day virtual reality presentations. A general distinction of adults-only sexual content is made, classifying it as pornography or erotica.

The oldest artifacts considered pornographic were discovered in Germany in 2008 and are dated to be at least 35,000 years old. Human enchantment with sexual imagery representations has been a constant throughout history. However, the reception of such imagery varied according to the historical, cultural, and national contexts. The Indian Sanskrit text Kama Sutra (3rd century CE) contained prose, poetry, and illustrations regarding sexual behavior, and the book was celebrated; while the British English text Fanny Hill (1748), considered "the first original English prose pornography," has been one of the most prosecuted and banned books. In the late 19th century, a film by Thomas Edison that depicted a kiss was denounced as obscene in the United States, whereas Eugène Pirou's 1896 film Bedtime for the Bride was received very favorably in France. Starting from the mid-twentieth century on, societal attitudes towards sexuality became lenient in the Western world where legal definitions of obscenity were made limited. In 1969, Blue Movie by Andy Warhol became the first film to depict unsimulated sex that received a wide theatrical release in the United States. This was followed by the "Golden Age of Porn" (1969–1984). The introduction of home video and the World Wide Web in the late 20th century led to global growth in the pornography business. Beginning in the 21st century, greater access to the Internet and affordable smartphones made pornography more mainstream. (Full article...)

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Bettie Mae Page (April 22, 1923 – December 11, 2008) was an American model who gained recognition in the 1950s for her pin-up photos. She was often referred to as the "Queen of Pinups": her long jet-black hair, blue eyes, and trademark bangs have influenced artists for generations. After her death, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner called her "a remarkable lady, an iconic figure in pop culture who influenced sexuality, taste in fashion, someone who had a tremendous impact on our society".

A native of Nashville, Tennessee, Page lived in California in her early adult years before moving to New York City to pursue work as an actress. There, she found work as a pin-up model, and she posed for several photographers throughout the 1950s. Page was "Miss January 1955", one of the earliest Playmates of the Month for Playboy magazine. After years in obscurity, she experienced a resurgence of popularity in the 1980s.

In 1959, Page converted to evangelical Christianity and worked for Billy Graham, studying at Bible colleges in Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, with the intent of becoming a missionary. (Full article...)

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Tropic of Cancer is an autobiographical novel by Henry Miller that is best known as "notorious for its candid sexuality", with the resulting social controversy considered responsible for the "free speech that we now take for granted in literature". It was first published in 1934 by the Obelisk Press in Paris, France; however, this edition was banned in the United States. Its publication in 1961 in the United States by Grove Press led to obscenity trials that tested American laws on pornography in the early 1960s. In 1964, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the book non-obscene. It is regarded as an important work of 20th-century literature. (Full article...)

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Image 1Example of Erotic photography
Image 2Swedish/Tanzanian Playmate of the Year Ida Ljungqvist
Image 3Avedon Carol, United States Feminist; anti-Censorship and Civil liberties campaigner; and a researcher in the field of Sex crime, residing in England
Image 4Figure 12 in Zillmann, Dolf: "Effects of Prolonged Consumption of Pornography", included in the Report of the Surgeon General's Workshop on Pornography and Public Health, United States Public Health Service, Office of the Surgeon General, August 4, 1986
Image 5Playmate of the_Year Corinna Harney
Image 6Typical pixelated Japanese-style hentai image (uncensored version
Image 7Performers at Eros PyramideStrip club, 2009
Image 8Sean Michaels - pornographic actor.
Image 9Randy Spears
Image 10Pornographic actor and director Miles Long (submitted by self)
Image 11Dean Flynn and Chi Chi LaRue
Image 12Erotic actress and public health advocate Sharon Mitchell.
Image 13Sasha Grey attending the AVN Awards Show at the Palms Casino Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada on January 9, 2010
Image 14Savanna Samson
Image 15Playboy Playmate Alison Waite
Image 16A Fluffer hands gay porn performers Jake Starr (seated) and Erik Grant (lying) items needed for a scene in the 2008 Lucas Entertainment production Pounding the Pavement.
Image 17Karenjit Kaur Vohra known by her stage nameSunny Leone, is a Canadian-born Indian-American actress and model, currently active in Indian film industry. She is a former pornstar. In 2016 she was chosen as one of 100 Women (BBC).
Image 18Transsexual pornographic actress Erica Andrews
Image 19American pornographic actor Ron Jeremy. One of top Porn Stars of All Time.
Image 20Lisa Ann
Image 21Gail Dines American Feminist, Anti-pornography activist, author, professor, and lecturer
Image 22Evil Angel performers
Image 23Joanna Jet - transsexual pornographic actress and director
Image 24Stormy Daniels attending the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo at the Sands Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada on January 8, 2010.
Image 25Rebeca Linares at AVN Adult Entertainment Expo 2009
Image 26Audrey Hollander - American porn star
Image 27Jade-Blue Eclipse

Image 27Jade-Blue Eclipse
Image 28Carmen Luvana, Adult Entertainment Expo 2008
Image 29Rocco Siffredi
Image 30Dana DeArmond
Image 31Penthouse Pet Dani Daniels, wearing Penthouse key necklace
Image 32Pornographic actress and cosplayer Tanya Tate as She-Ra
Image 33Pierre Woodman filming in Australia
Image 34Xaviera Hollander, author and former Sex worker
Image 35Joey Silvera, Peter North, andJohn Leslie at AVN Adult Entertainment Expo 2008
Image 36Michael Lucas, Nonie, Rafael Alencar, David Shankbone, and Ernesta Alamirano in Fire Island Pines
Image 37John Stagliano
Image 38Jessie Andrews
Image 39Playmate of the Year and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals spokesperson Pamela Anderson, signing DVDs at the USS Halsey
Image 40Sinnamon Love
Image 41Annie Sprinkle as a Sacred prostitute
Image 42Pornographic film set. Pictured from left to right: Cali Chase, Mikey Butders, and a photographer identified as "Nicole."
Image 43Francois Sagat, Folsom Street Fair
Image 44Hentai Manga, Japan
Image 45Playmate of the Year Claire Sinclair
Image 46"Shiro Post", box for disposing of violent or sexual literature, Japan
Image 47Hentai style of art, originally from Japan
Image 48Asa Akira
Image 49Tila Tequila
Image 50Katsuni - French pornographic actress.
Image 51Sylvia Kristel one of the protagonists of French Softcore porn Emmanuelle.
Image 52Karen McDougal
Image 53Yaoi (/ˈjaʊi/; Japanese: やおい, Japanese: [ja.o.i]), primarily known as boys' love (BL) (ボーイズラブ bōizu rabu) in Japan, is a Japanese genre of fictional media focusing on romantic or sexual relationships between male characters, typically marketed for a female audience and usually created by female authors.
Image 54Nude photography is the creation of any photograph which contains an image of a nude or semi-nude person, or an image suggestive of nudity. Nude photography is undertaken for a variety of purposes, including educational uses, commercial applications and artistic creations. The exhibition or publication of nude photographs may be controversial, more so in some cultures or countries than in others, and especially if the subject is a minor.
Image 55SuicideGirls model "Tiffini"
Image 56Lupe Fuentes
Image 57Pornographic DVDs, Japan, "Kawaii" section
Image 58Shy Love at AVN Adult Entertainment Expo 2012
Image 59Carol Queen
Image 60Lord Longford, British politician and Anti-pornography campaigner
Image 61Bruna Ferraz
Image 62PhotographerSuze Randall
Image 63Daisy Marie posing with a fan at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo 2008
Image 64Playmate of the Year Sara Jean Underwood
Image 65James Deen
Image 66Michele_Merkin - Glamour photography
Image 67Scene from Second Life computer game
Image 68Raylene
Image 69Cindy Margolis
Image 70Sculpture by Kanayi Kunhiraman
Image 71Jenna Jameson
Image 72The COLT Studio Group, San Francisco
Image 73Hugh Hefner with Karissa Shannon, Dasha Astafieva, and Kristina Shannon
Image 74Bondage pornography, showing classic "wrist to ankle" rope hogtie. Other bondage methods depicted are breast bondage, elbow bondage, head to ankle tie, knees tied, and a crotch rope. Model is also wearing a muzzle gag.
Image 75Valentina Nappi at the AVN Awards Show, Las Vegas, Nevada on 21 January 2017
Image 76Louise Glover
Image 77British pornographic actor, director and producer Keiran Lee attending the XBIZ Award ceremony in 2016.
Image 78Silvia Saint, wearing a Bomis tee-shirt (a site previously run by Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia).

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Image 1Artwork by Peter Fendi
Image 2Artwork by Martin van Maële
Image 3'"Halbtakt" by Otto Mueller, ca. 1925
Image 4Shunga illustration, Japan
Image 5Photograph by Félix-Jacques Moulin, between 1851 and 1855
Image 6Nights of Horror, panel by Joe Shuster (public domain)
Image 7Erotic art from China
Image 8Warren Cup detail
Image 9The Fisherman and the Syren, Frederic Leighton, circa 1856-1858
Image 10Photograph by Alfred Cheney Johnston
Image 11Photograph by Charles Gilhousen
Image 12Hokusai, Untamed Lion, From the series Picture Book Patterns of Couples (Ehon tsui no hinagata), c. 1812
Image 13Egon Schiele - Kneeling Girl, Resting on Both Elbows
Image 14Erotic art, India, 18th century
Image 15Drawing of a Roman fresco by César Famin
Image 16Sainte-Thérèse, Félicien Rops
Image 17Photograph by Wilhelm von Gloeden
Image 18Classical Greek Bas Relief showing "Cowgirl" position
Image 1919th century photograph
Image 20Kama Sutra illustration (19th century?)
Image 21Pool in a Harem, Jean-Léon Gérôme, ca. 1876. Example of Orientalist eroticism
Image 22Cunnilingus portrayed at Pompeii - Source: John R. Clarke: Ars Erotica. Darmstadt: Primus 2009
Image 23Kama Sutra illustration (19th century?)
Image 24Sleep, by Gustave Courbet, 1866
Image 25Artwork by Antonio Vargas
Image 26Shunga, Japan (ca 1750)
Image 27Illustration for Théophile Gautier's poem Musée Secret
Image 28Drawing by Anton Peschka, 1925
Image 29Artwork by Franz von Bayros
Image 30Kama Sutra Position.
Image 31Striporama 1953 movie poster featuring Lili St. Cyr
Image 32Unidentified nude, 1920s
Image 33Jupiter and Olympias
Image 34Storyville, New Orleans, portrait by E. J. Bellocq, circa 1912
Image 35“Cleo”, Kenneth Mclnnis (1915)
Image 36Erotic detail from the Vishwanath temple at the Khajuraho Group of Monuments
Image 37Page from the Bizarre Museum comic
Image 38Teaserama 1955 movie poster, featuring Tempest Storm and Betty Page
Image 39Illustration from Le livre de la Marquise by Konstantin Somov
Image 40The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife, an erotic woodcut made circa 1820 by Hokusai.
Image 41Illustration from Juliette by the Marquis de Sade.
Image 42artwork by Gerda Wegener
Image 43Artwork for Lysistrata by Aubrey Beardsley
Image 44Oz magazine issue 31
Image 45Miniature from 15th century Persian book
Image 46Erotic engraving supposedly after Agostino Carracci (1557–1602)
Image 47A rape scene by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (ca.1797-1861).
Image 48Artwork by Heinrich Lossow
Image 49Illustration from La Grande Danse macabre des vifs, Martin van Maële (1905)
Image 50Artwork by Egon Schiele
Image 51Prehistoric art
Image 52Lakshmana Temple, Khajuraho, India, taken by User:Ggia
Image 53Two Lovers, by Reza Abbasi.
Image 54Virginia Biddle, 1927, by Alfred Cheney Johnston
Image 55Modern Pygmalion, Thomas Rowlandson
Image 56Early daguerrotype, Auguste Belloc, circa 1850-1855
Image 57OZ Magazine number 28
Image 58Nymphs and Satyr, by William Adolphe Bouguereau
Image 591860s early photograph
Image 60Leopold von Sacher Masoch
Image 61Artwork by Otto Schoff
Image 62Shunga, Japan
Image 63Sculpture, Egypt, ca 300 BCE
Image 64Vixen! 1968 movie poster
Image 65Satirical cartoon by James Gillray
Image 66Hans Sebald Beham: Die Nacht, engraving, 1548
Image 67Artwork by Achille Devéria, 1840
Image 68Illustration of a toilet
Image 69Illustration from Balkangreuel by Gottfried Sieben
Image 70Vintage nude erotic picture (c. 1855) from the Uwe Scheid Collection
Image 71Hokusai, Untitled (Plate No. 4) From the series Picture Book Patterns of Couples (Ehon tsui no hinagata), c. 1812
Image 72Photograph from Scamp, men's magazine, 1962
Image 73Johann Nepomuk Geiger, watercolor, 1840
Image 74The Venus of Willendorf prehistoric sculpture
Image 75Katsushika Hokusai, "The Adonis Plant (Fukujusô)" Woodblock, ca. 1815, Japan Shunga
Image 76Roman oil lamp portraying intercourse
Image 77Illustration from Le livre de la Marquise by Konstantin Somov
Image 78Early daguerrotype, Bruno Braquehais, circa 1850s
Image 79Folke Sundquist (l) and Ulla Jacobsson (r) in Hon dansade en sommar (1951)
Image 80Two nudes standing. ca.1850. Daguerreotype. 14.6 × 14.11 cm (5.7 × 5.6 in). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Image 81Drawing by Roger de La Fresnaye
Image 82A Mercury Priapus figure from Pompeii, ancient Rome
Image 83Traditional pederastic courtship scene on an Athenian black-figure amphora from the 5th century B.C.
Image 84Cunnilingus, Orientalist art referencing the Ottoman era
Image 85Artwork by Gerda Wegener
Image 86French postcard, model: Alice Prin

Image 86French postcard, model: Alice Prin
Image 8715-year old girl from Vienna. Photo from the book Der Körper des Kindes und seine Pflege by Carl Heinrich Stratz (1909)
Image 88Ziegfeld girl Dorothy Flood, by Alfred Cheney Johnston (1920s)
Image 89Silver gelatin print by Charles Gilhousen (1915)
Image 90Photograph by Wilhelm von Plüschow
Image 91The great epidemic of pornography. 19th-century French illustration
Image 92Joseph and Potiphar's wife, Rembrandt
Image 93Erotic art, 18th century India
Image 94Erotic scene. Rim of an Attic red-figure kylix, c. 510 BC., ancient Greece
Image 95Nineteenth century nude photograph.
Image 96Kama Sutra illustration (19th century?)
Image 97French postcard
Image 98Silenus and maenad. Tondo of an Attic red-figure kylix, ca. 480 BC. From Vulci, ancient Greece
Image 99Vertumnus and Pomona by François Boucher (1740)
Image 100Artwork by Johann Heinrich Füssli
Image 101Nude Study of a Black Female daguerrotype, France, circa 1850s
Image 102Goodbye, Thomas Rowlandson
Image 103Shunga illustration, Japan
Image 104Two 16 year old mulatto from Cairo, from anthropometry text, 1904
Image 105Photograph by Wilhelm von Plüschow
Image 106Promises! Promises! poster, featuring Jayne Mansfield
Image 107Marayat Andriane (1967)
Image 108Marilyn Monroe
Image 109Tinted photograph credited to Julian Mandel, circa 1920

Image 109Tinted photograph credited to Julian Mandel, circa 1920
Image 110Les Sataniques. Le Sacrifice, Félicien Rops
Image 111Deadly Weapons 1974 sexploitation movie poster featuring Chesty Morgan
Image 112Gabrielle d'Estrées et une de ses sœurs, ca 1594
Image 113Danaë and the Shower of Gold, Zeus impregnating her as a shower of gold, Léon Comerre, circa 1908
Image 114Photograph credited to Julian Mandel, circa 1920

Image 114Photograph credited to Julian Mandel, circa 1920
Image 115Courtesan and putative spy Mata Hari
Image 116Mary Magdalene in the Cave by Jules Joseph Lefebvre
Image 117Photograph by Wilhelm von Gloeden
Image 118L'Origine du monde (The Origin of the World), 1866 painting by Gustave Courbet, at museum. Better image at Image:Origin-of-the-World.jpg
Image 119French postcard
Image 120Sketch by Gustav Klimt
Image 121Hadrian engaging in anal sex with Antinous in Egypt, portrayed by Édouard-Henri Avril.
Image 122Gustav Klimt, Fishblood, 1898.
Image 123Iconic pinup of Betty Grable, during World War II
Image 124Photograph by Wilhelm von Gloeden
Image 125Female Bathers No. 4, 1886
Image 126Artwork by Eusebi Planas i Franquesa
Image 127Phryne before the Areopagus, Jean-Léon Gérôme. (1861) Phryne, a famous hetaera (courtesan) of Ancient Greece, being disrobed before the Areopagus. Phryne was on trial for profaning the Eleusinian Mysteries, and is said to have been disrobed by Hypereides, who was defending her, when it appeared the verdict would be unfavourable. The sight of her nude body apparently so moved the judges that they acquitted her. Some authorities claim that this story is a later invention.
Image 128Artwork by William Adolphe Bouguereau
Image 129Peep show at carnival
Image 130The Garden of Aphrodite, Franz von Bayros
Image 131Bettie Page magazine layout
Image 132Ex libris by Franz von Bayros
Image 133Lasse Braun and Brigitte Maier, 1976
Image 134étude pour Le Manteau légendaire (English: Study For Le Manteau Legendaire), Léon Comerre
Image 135Erotic art from China, for The Carnal Prayer Mat
Image 136French postcard, 1880s
Image 137Indian Princess, by Richard Borrmeister [de] (1888?)

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