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    Posted: 31-Oct-2011 at 19:11

Erotica dates back to the Stone Age. Here is a carving of a fertility goddess
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  Quote Don Quixote Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 02-Nov-2011 at 00:52
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Erotica dates back to the Stone Age. Here is a carving of a fertility goddess

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.
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Ancient Pompeii "The Forbidden Room"



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  Quote TheAlaniDragonRising Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26-Jan-2012 at 16:26
Originally posted by Hellios

Are we allowed posting & discussing examples of ancient (authentic) erotic art if it's not too explicit?
 
How do we discern ancient sacred? I ask because I think it maybe possible that many things called ancient erotic could be sacred rather than erotic, and it is a modern eye with a modern perspective on modern sexuality which could be clouding people's judgements. 
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Yes marjorie100 , everything you posted is correct! Except maybe the dating's? Thus, I and most everyone in the Fomenko community considers this stuff belongs in the Middle Ages!

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