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Before the Deluge by Cornelis van Haarlem, 1615

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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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Hartley in 2013

Marie Louise Hartman (born 1959), known professionally as Nina Hartley, is an American pornographic film actress and sex educator. By 2017 she had appeared in more than 1,000 adult films. She has been described by Las Vegas Weekly as an “outspoken feminist” and “advocate for sexual freedom”, and by CNBC as “a legend in the adult world”. (Full article…)

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Selected work of erotic literature

Cover of the 1962 edition

Story of O (French: Histoire d’O, IPA: [istwaʁ do]) is an erotic novel written by French author Anne Desclos under the pen name Pauline Réage, with the original French text published in 1954 by Jean-Jacques Pauvert.

Desclos did not reveal herself as the author until 1994, 40 years after the initial publication. Desclos stated she wrote the novel as a series of love letters to her lover Jean Paulhan, who had admired the work of the Marquis de Sade. The novel shares with the latter themes such as love, dominance, and submission. (Full article…)

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Slideshow of selected contemporary images

Image 1Lisa Ann
Image 2Pornographic film set. Pictured from left to right: Cali Chase, Mikey Butders, and a photographer identified as “Nicole.”
Image 3Evil Angel performers
Image 4Carmen Luvana, Adult Entertainment Expo 2008
Image 5Sasha Grey attending the AVN Awards Show at the Palms Casino Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada on January 9, 2010
Image 6American pornographic actor Ron Jeremy. One of top Porn Stars of All Time.
Image 7Penthouse Pet Dani Daniels, wearing Penthouse key necklace
Image 8Katsuni – French pornographic actress.
Image 9Sylvia Kristel one of the protagonists of French Softcore porn Emmanuelle.
Image 10Jenna Jameson
Image 11Shy Love at AVN Adult Entertainment Expo 2012
Image 12Pornographic actor and director Miles Long (submitted by self)
Image 13Valentina Nappi at the AVN Awards Show, Las Vegas, Nevada on 21 January 2017
Image 14Sean Michaels – pornographic actor.
Image 15Annie Sprinkle as a Sacred prostitute
Image 16Playmate of the_Year Corinna Harney
Image 17Daisy Marie posing with a fan at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo 2008
Image 18Savanna Samson
Image 19Example of Erotic photography
Image 20Stormy Daniels attending the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo at the Sands Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada on January 8, 2010.
Image 21Francois Sagat, Folsom Street Fair
Image 22John Stagliano
Image 23Erotic actress and public health advocate Sharon Mitchell.
Image 24Bruna Ferraz
Image 25Silvia Saint, wearing a Bomis tee-shirt (a site previously run by Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia).
Image 26Joey Silvera, Peter North, andJohn Leslie at AVN Adult Entertainment Expo 2008
Image 27Rocco Siffredi
Image 28Dean Flynn and Chi Chi LaRue
Image 29Hugh Hefner with Karissa Shannon, Dasha Astafieva, and Kristina Shannon
Image 30British pornographic actor, director and producer Keiran Lee attending the XBIZ Award ceremony in 2016.
Image 31Cindy Margolis
Image 32Avedon Carol, United States Feminist; anti-Censorship and Civil liberties campaigner; and a researcher in the field of Sex crime, residing in England
Image 33Bondage 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 34Figure 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 35Typical pixelated Japanese-style hentai image (uncensored version
Image 36Hentai style of art, originally from Japan
Image 37Audrey Hollander – American porn star
Image 38Sinnamon Love
Image 39Michele_Merkin – Glamour photography
Image 40Performers at Eros PyramideStrip club, 2009
Image 41Asa Akira
Image 42Playboy Playmate Alison Waite
Image 43Karen McDougal
Image 44SuicideGirls model “Tiffini”
Image 45Joanna Jet – transsexual pornographic actress and director
Image 46Lupe Fuentes
Image 47Yaoi (/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 48Pierre Woodman filming in Australia
Image 49Hentai Manga, Japan
Image 50PhotographerSuze Randall
Image 51Playmate of the Year Sara Jean Underwood
Image 52Raylene
Image 53Tila Tequila
Image 54Playmate of the Year and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals spokesperson Pamela Anderson, signing DVDs at the USS Halsey
Image 55Jessie Andrews
Image 56Michael Lucas, Nonie, Rafael Alencar, David Shankbone, and Ernesta Alamirano in Fire Island Pines
Image 57Xaviera Hollander, author and former Sex worker
Image 58Jade-Blue Eclipse

Image 58Jade-Blue Eclipse
Image 59Dana DeArmond
Image 60Transsexual pornographic actress Erica Andrews
Image 61A 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 62Pornographic DVDs, Japan, “Kawaii” section
Image 63Karenjit 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 64Randy Spears
Image 65Carol Queen
Image 66Pornographic actress and cosplayer Tanya Tate as She-Ra
Image 67Scene from Second Life computer game
Image 68Playmate of the Year Claire Sinclair
Image 69Swedish/Tanzanian Playmate of the Year Ida Ljungqvist
Image 70Nude 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 71James Deen
Image 72“Shiro Post”, box for disposing of violent or sexual literature, Japan
Image 73Sculpture by Kanayi Kunhiraman
Image 74Lord Longford, British politician and Anti-pornography campaigner
Image 75The COLT Studio Group, San Francisco
Image 76Rebeca Linares at AVN Adult Entertainment Expo 2009
Image 77Gail Dines American Feminist, Anti-pornography activist, author, professor, and lecturer
Image 78Louise Glover

Slideshow of selected historical images

Image 1Vixen! 1968 movie poster
Image 2Artwork by Peter Fendi
Image 3Photograph by Wilhelm von Gloeden
Image 4Vertumnus and Pomona by François Boucher (1740)
Image 5Artwork by William Adolphe Bouguereau
Image 6OZ Magazine number 28
Image 7Promises! Promises! poster, featuring Jayne Mansfield
Image 8Nude Study of a Black Female daguerrotype, France, circa 1850s
Image 9Artwork by Franz von Bayros
Image 10Miniature from 15th century Persian book
Image 11Shunga, Japan
Image 12Oz magazine issue 31
Image 13Sleep, by Gustave Courbet, 1866
Image 14French postcard, 1880s
Image 15Early daguerrotype, Bruno Braquehais, circa 1850s
Image 16Artwork by Martin van Maële
Image 17Shunga illustration, Japan
Image 18Teaserama 1955 movie poster, featuring Tempest Storm and Betty Page
Image 19Sketch by Gustav Klimt
Image 20A rape scene by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (ca.1797-1861).
Image 21Courtesan and putative spy Mata Hari
Image 22Erotic art from China, for The Carnal Prayer Mat
Image 23Shunga, Japan (ca 1750)
Image 24French postcard
Image 25Early daguerrotype, Auguste Belloc, circa 1850-1855
Image 26Lasse Braun and Brigitte Maier, 1976
Image 27Female Bathers No. 4, 1886
Image 28Phryne 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 29Marilyn Monroe
Image 30Johann Nepomuk Geiger, watercolor, 1840
Image 31Hokusai, Untitled (Plate No. 4) From the series Picture Book Patterns of Couples (Ehon tsui no hinagata), c. 1812
Image 32Indian Princess, by Richard Borrmeister [de] (1888?)
Image 33Erotic art, India, 18th century
Image 34Photograph by Wilhelm von Plüschow
Image 35Katsushika Hokusai, “The Adonis Plant (Fukujusô)” Woodblock, ca. 1815, Japan Shunga
Image 36Artwork by Antonio Vargas
Image 37Photograph by Alfred Cheney Johnston
Image 38Illustration from Balkangreuel by Gottfried Sieben
Image 39Erotic detail from the Vishwanath temple at the Khajuraho Group of Monuments
Image 40Two nudes standing. ca.1850. Daguerreotype. 14.6 × 14.11 cm (5.7 × 5.6 in). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Image 41Traditional pederastic courtship scene on an Athenian black-figure amphora from the 5th century B.C.
Image 42Sainte-Thérèse, Félicien Rops
Image 43Photograph credited to Julian Mandel, circa 1920

Image 43Photograph credited to Julian Mandel, circa 1920
Image 44Egon Schiele – Kneeling Girl, Resting on Both Elbows
Image 45Goodbye, Thomas Rowlandson
Image 46Nineteenth century nude photograph.
Image 47Silver gelatin print by Charles Gilhousen (1915)
Image 48Gustav Klimt, Fishblood, 1898.
Image 49Page from the Bizarre Museum comic
Image 50Warren Cup detail
Image 51Silenus and maenad. Tondo of an Attic red-figure kylix, ca. 480 BC. From Vulci, ancient Greece
Image 52The Fisherman and the Syren, Frederic Leighton, circa 1856-1858
Image 53Striporama 1953 movie poster featuring Lili St. Cyr
Image 541860s early photograph
Image 55Drawing by Anton Peschka, 1925
Image 56artwork by Gerda Wegener
Image 57Ziegfeld girl Dorothy Flood, by Alfred Cheney Johnston (1920s)
Image 58Roman oil lamp portraying intercourse
Image 59Tinted photograph credited to Julian Mandel, circa 1920

Image 59Tinted photograph credited to Julian Mandel, circa 1920
Image 60Artwork by Eusebi Planas i Franquesa
Image 61Drawing by Roger de La Fresnaye
Image 62Photograph by Wilhelm von Gloeden
Image 63Cunnilingus, Orientalist art referencing the Ottoman era
Image 64L’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 65Lakshmana Temple, Khajuraho, India, taken by User:Ggia
Image 66“Cleo”, Kenneth Mclnnis (1915)
Image 67Two Lovers, by Reza Abbasi.
Image 68A Mercury Priapus figure from Pompeii, ancient Rome
Image 69Mary Magdalene in the Cave by Jules Joseph Lefebvre
Image 70Hans Sebald Beham: Die Nacht, engraving, 1548
Image 71Photograph by Félix-Jacques Moulin, between 1851 and 1855
Image 72Photograph by Wilhelm von Gloeden
Image 73Sculpture, Egypt, ca 300 BCE
Image 74Illustration from La Grande Danse macabre des vifs, Martin van Maële (1905)
Image 75Artwork by Egon Schiele
Image 76Iconic pinup of Betty Grable, during World War II
Image 77Leopold von Sacher Masoch
Image 7815-year old girl from Vienna. Photo from the book Der Körper des Kindes und seine Pflege by Carl Heinrich Stratz (1909)
Image 79Artwork by Gerda Wegener
Image 80The great epidemic of pornography. 19th-century French illustration
Image 81Bettie Page magazine layout
Image 82Illustration of a toilet
Image 8319th century photograph
Image 84Illustration from Le livre de la Marquise by Konstantin Somov
Image 85Photograph by Charles Gilhousen
Image 86Artwork by Otto Schoff
Image 87Illustration for Théophile Gautier‘s poem Musée Secret
Image 88Erotic engraving supposedly after Agostino Carracci (1557–1602)
Image 89Nymphs and Satyr, by William Adolphe Bouguereau
Image 90Les Sataniques. Le Sacrifice, Félicien Rops
Image 91Erotic art from China
Image 92Erotic scene. Rim of an Attic red-figure kylix, c. 510 BC., ancient Greece
Image 93Photograph from Scamp, men’s magazine, 1962
Image 94French postcard
Image 95Kama Sutra illustration (19th century?)
Image 96Illustration from Le livre de la Marquise by Konstantin Somov
Image 97Artwork by Johann Heinrich Füssli
Image 98Deadly Weapons 1974 sexploitation movie poster featuring Chesty Morgan
Image 99Illustration from Juliette by the Marquis de Sade.
Image 100Ex libris by Franz von Bayros
Image 101Storyville, New Orleans, portrait by E. J. Bellocq, circa 1912
Image 102Artwork by Heinrich Lossow
Image 103Peep show at carnival
Image 104Drawing of a Roman fresco by César Famin
Image 105Vintage nude erotic picture (c. 1855) from the Uwe Scheid Collection
Image 106Kama Sutra illustration (19th century?)
Image 107Modern Pygmalion, Thomas Rowlandson
Image 108Virginia Biddle, 1927, by Alfred Cheney Johnston
Image 109Cunnilingus portrayed at Pompeii – Source: John R. Clarke: Ars Erotica. Darmstadt: Primus 2009
Image 110The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife, an erotic woodcut made circa 1820 by Hokusai.
Image 111‘”Halbtakt” by Otto Mueller, ca. 1925
Image 112Folke Sundquist (l) and Ulla Jacobsson (r) in Hon dansade en sommar (1951)
Image 113Artwork by Achille Devéria, 1840
Image 114Prehistoric art
Image 115Jupiter and Olympias
Image 116Erotic art, 18th century India
Image 117The Garden of Aphrodite, Franz von Bayros
Image 118étude pour Le Manteau légendaire (English: Study For Le Manteau Legendaire), Léon Comerre
Image 119Hadrian engaging in anal sex with Antinous in Egypt, portrayed by Édouard-Henri Avril.
Image 120Satirical cartoon by James Gillray
Image 121Classical Greek Bas Relief showing “Cowgirl” position
Image 122Marayat Andriane (1967)
Image 123Two 16 year old mulatto from Cairo, from anthropometry text, 1904
Image 124Joseph and Potiphar’s wife, Rembrandt
Image 125Kama Sutra illustration (19th century?)
Image 126The Venus of Willendorf prehistoric sculpture
Image 127Hokusai, Untamed Lion, From the series Picture Book Patterns of Couples (Ehon tsui no hinagata), c. 1812
Image 128Artwork for Lysistrata by Aubrey Beardsley
Image 129Pool in a Harem, Jean-Léon Gérôme, ca. 1876. Example of Orientalist eroticism
Image 130Unidentified nude, 1920s
Image 131Photograph by Wilhelm von Plüschow
Image 132Kama Sutra Position.
Image 133French postcard, model: Alice Prin

Image 133French postcard, model: Alice Prin
Image 134Danaë and the Shower of Gold, Zeus impregnating her as a shower of gold, Léon Comerre, circa 1908
Image 135Nights of Horror, panel by Joe Shuster (public domain)
Image 136Shunga illustration, Japan
Image 137Gabrielle d’Estrées et une de ses sœurs, ca 1594

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… that some viewers of an Arizona TV station saw hardcore pornography instead of the Super Bowl?
… that a Hong Kong porn actress once invited her cyberbullies to talk?
… that while filming a music video for her debut album at a motel, Underscores had the police called on her by the motel staff because they thought she was shooting a pornographic film?
… that in 2001, around 64 percent of all films produced in Malayalam were of the soft-porn variety?
… that a long-legged lovebird lived in humanity’s cradle?
… that American MILF porn star Serenity Cox was a nurse for fifteen years?
… that Rae Lil Black, who was at one point one of the 20 most popular models on Pornhub, left the adult industry and converted to Islam after visiting Malaysia?
… that later pressings of the soundtrack of the soft porn film The Stud replaced Manfred Mann’s Earth Band‘s “Davy’s on the Road Again” after a journalist blabbed its presence to the band’s keyboardist?