The Origins of Erotic Art

Erotic Art can be said to have been one of the earliest expressions of art in all of history. It is also true to say that throughout the known world, or perhaps more accurately, within the non Christian or non Catholic world, human sexuality was celebrated as a fundamental part of daily wife and was done so in a committed way. There was a distinctly different treatment made between pleasure and biological reproduction. These actually represented different aspects of our lives and were both felt to represent elements certainly not to feel ashamed of. Indeed in many historic cultures it was felt that the act of physical orgasm meant a far more direct way of accessing one's chosen path of divinity. Therefore it can be regarded as being an essential part of several cultures and civilisations. It can be said to have been reawakened in the 1960's and 70's so called sexual revolutions. The latter perhaps represent the fact that sex was always an issue but perhaps considered more taboo until then by the majority of Western civilisations. In summary, nobody should feel surprised at the prevalence and variation of available erotic art present today. The majority of non-Western cultures have and abundance of such art, much of was made for purely educational purposes. It is certainly true to say that in the 21st century that the subject of sex remains a hugely controversial subject, this despite the fact that we have more than a century of years apart from the repressive Victorian era. Erotic art has become a highly specialised art form where modern day artists engage not only their own personalised artistic abilities but indeed their own sexual sensitivities.