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Art and Pornography presents a series of essays which investigate the artistic status and aesthetic dimension of pornographic pictures, films, and literature, and explores the distinction, if there is any, between pornography and... more
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      PsychologyAestheticsArtDomestic Violence
Wilhelm von Gloeden, a minor German aristocrat, and his cousin, Guglielmo Plüschow —both homosexual, both photographers — succumbed to what historian Robert Aldrich has called "the seduction of the Mediterranean," a mythic construct of... more
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      PhotographyItalian StudiesGay And Lesbian StudiesHomosexuality and Literature
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      Contemporary ArtSculptureErotic artGDR History & art
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      Middle East StudiesSexualityGender and SexualityIranian Studies
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      Egyptian Art and ArchaeologyErotic art
Review of Picasso 1932: Année Érotique at the Musée National Picasso, Paris
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      Art HistoryPaintingErotic artVisual Arts
The essay takes it starting point from the question, how women Surrealists depict sexuality. Images of female erotic fantasies have been far less analyzed than the erotic fantasies of their male Surrealist colleagues. The essay puts... more
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      Art HistoryNordic StudiesSexualityModern Art
In a recent paper Sheila Lintott and Sherri Irvin (2017) present a feminist critique of sexiness and point to two problems in particular. The first is that women are considered sexy in accordance with an externally dictated conception of... more
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      AestheticsFeminismErotic artPornography
For as long as men have existed, the female figure has been a source of great interest to them. Man is fascinated with Woman's undeniable power to sexually arouse. Naturally, artists throughout the centuries have expressed these desires... more
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      Art HistoryArtEroticismErotic art
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      AestheticsVisual StudiesMiddle East StudiesIranian Studies
"... the unveiling of the hidden ways and means of _La Cazzaria_ should clarify aspects of 'the intersections of sexuality, politics and learning' that characterize Renaissance pornography as an issue of fundamental importance." (60)
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      Queer StudiesRhetoricItalian StudiesRenaissance Studies
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      Classical ArchaeologyPottery (Archaeology)Erotic artGreek Archaeology
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      ArchaeologyBaroque Art and LiteratureJohann Wolfgang von GoetheErotic art
Unveiling the Veiled Royal Consorts, Slaves and Prostitutes in Qajar Photographs Photo exhibition curated by: Dr. Pedram Khosronejad Associate Director for Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies, Oklahoma State University A special Exhibit... more
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      Gender StudiesSex and GenderMiddle East StudiesMiddle East & North Africa
When Japanese ukiyo-e woodcut prints arrived in the European art world of the late nineteenth century, they caused a sensation and influenced artists as diverse as van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Rodin. Picasso first encountered their... more
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      Japanese ArtEroticismErotic artJapanese Art History
Yaoi/BL Fandom Survey (only takes 10 mins to complete): https://leeds.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/blfandomsurvey
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      Japanese StudiesVisual StudiesJapanese LiteratureJapanese Language And Culture
Originally published in Journal of the American Oriental Society 121.4 (2001), and revised over the years.
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      Chinese ArtErotic artClassical Chinese literatureChinese archaeology
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      French LiteratureSexualityPierre KlossowskiDesire
A paper outlining highlights of the Thavibu Art Collection, a collection of Southeast Asian contemporary art that was acquired over a period of the last 15 years. There are brief write-ups of artists as well as illustrations of six art... more
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      Art HistoryContemporary ArtAbstract ArtBuddhist Art
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      Japanese ArtEroticismErotic artJapanese Art History
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      Ancient HistoryClassical ArchaeologyClassicsArt History
At its height in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Japonisme had a tremendous impact on Western art. In this publication, author Ricard Bru approaches the cultural phenomenon of Japonisme from an innovative standpoint. He... more
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      Japanese StudiesArt HistoryJapanese ArtEroticism
in "Atti e Menorie della deputazione di storia patrie per le antiche provinciie modenesi", S. XI, Vol. XXXVI, pp. 267-285
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      Funerary ArchaeologyFuneral PracticesErotic artRoman Lamps
At no point in the apocryphal text does Judith, a wise and beautiful Jewish widow, sit on Holofernes, the Assyrian general laying siege to her city. Yet, in 1525, Barthel Beham, a young artist from Nuremberg, created Judith Seated on the... more
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      ArtSexMasculinityErotic art
Yaoi/BL Fandom Survey (only takes 10 mins to complete): https://leeds.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/blfandomsurvey Male–male sexuality is the central trope of Boys’ Love (BL) manga with stories tending to revolve around a central uke-seme... more
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      Japanese StudiesGender StudiesFeminist EconomicsFeminist Theory
Livro de artista. Um poema de amor sem palavras, as letras e sinais tipográficos são usados para representar 120 mulheres ou uma mesma mulher observada de diferentes pontos de vista.
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Art or Porn? The popular media will often choose this heading when reviewing the latest sexually explicit novel, film, or art exhibition. The underlying assumption seems to be that the work under discussion has to be one or the other, and... more
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      AestheticsGender and SexualityPhilosophy of ArtFeminism
This paper problematizes five central themes regarding Qajar art in general and erotic representation in Qajar art in particular. The paper addresses the continued existence of the tropes that the Qajar era is not worthy of serious... more
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      Comparative LiteratureIranian StudiesEroticismErotic art
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      AestheticsFeminist PhilosophyPhilosophy of ArtFeminism
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      Ancient Egyptian ReligionEgyptologyEgyptian Art and ArchaeologyErotic art
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      AestheticsEroticismErotic artPornographic Film
Wie kaum eine andere Skulptur zieht der Barberinische Faun die Betrachter in seinen Bann, dient als Folie moderner Kunst und als modische Ikone. Hierbei stehen nicht zuletzt die erotischen Aspekte der Figur im Zentrum des Interesses –... more
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      ArchaeologySexualityGender and SexualityModern Art
The attached thesis is a reformatted and slightly edited version of the original on file in the libraries of Southern Methodist University. It does not include the original illustrations. However, images of these works can be found in... more
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      Erotic artItalian Renaissance ArtParmigianinoMannerism
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      Ancient HistoryClassicsGreek LiteraturePompeii (Archaeology)
Nitrate fantasies. Early pornographic and erotic cinema in Argentina Abstract: The first pornographic film would have been shot in Argentina. This theory, supported by several of the leading specialists on the subject, states that this... more
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      Early CinemaEroticismErotic artPornographic Film
Yaoi/BL Fandom Survey (only takes 10 mins to complete): https://leeds.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/blfandomsurvey Madill, A. (2011-2013) Understanding Japanese "Boys' Love" manga from a UK perspective. British Academy. These 234 BL stories... more
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      Japanese StudiesJapanese LiteratureJapanese AnimeComics Studies
Presentazione - Introduzione - i. Le Terme Suburbane - ii. La decorazione pittorica dell'apodyterium - 2. Le scene erotiche - 3. Ipotesi sul significato degli elementi rettangolari e dei numeri - 4. Il valore testimoniale e la peculiarità... more
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      ArchaeologyClassical ArchaeologyClassicsArt History
This article analyzes the shunga collection owned by the Mito Tokugawa family. It presents the discovery of six pieces from the Mito Tokugawa, one of the three branches of the Tokugawa. This collection helps us understand the uses and the... more
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      SexualityJapanese ArtEroticismErotic art
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      EroticismErotic artHistory of Ottoman Art and ArchitectureArabic erotology
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      Erotic artGiulio RomanoRenaissance courts of Mantua, Ferrara, and Florence
Yaoi/BL Fandom Survey (only takes 10 mins to complete): https://leeds.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/blfandomsurvey Abstract ‘Fujoshi’ (rotten girl) is a derogatory Japanese term for female fans of homoerotic manga and anime in the genre know as... more
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      Cultural StudiesJapanese StudiesGender StudiesSex and Gender
Introduction; Non-Eroticism; The depiction of the phallus; Ironic depictions and parodies; Pubblic displays; Eroticism at the banquet; Eroticism on show; Manifestations in the private sphere; Erotic arousal from reading; The use of images... more
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      ArchaeologyClassical ArchaeologyGender StudiesClassics
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      AestheticsPhilosophy of ArtSchopenhauerShaftesbury
El placer del autoerotismo.
Libro que habla sobre el erotismo y el autoconocimiento del cuerpo.
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      LiteratureSexologyEroticismHistory Of Sexology
Before the turn of the twenty-first century, the role of eroticism in Dutch art and the purpose of its images has largely being neglected. However, in their time these representations of nudity and salacious images and the subjects they... more
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      17th-Century StudiesEroticismErotic art17th Century Dutch Republic
El cómic erótico Español Análisis sobre el trabajo de Antonio Altarriba de Filippo Rigobello completo y gratis
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      SpanishEroticismErotic artComics and Graphic Novels
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      Art HistorySex and GenderGender and SexualityHistory of Sexuality
"Abstract: Ovid's "Ars Amatoria" is meant to offer a true recantation of amor, a palinode of love that includes an apology of poetry. Palinode and apology have become necessary and urgent, for Ovid, for two reasons, which offer a double... more
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      Gender StudiesAestheticsClassicsLatin Literature
Discussion of the criteria of "what is pornography" in the European contexts coming up to the Ancient Greek "playful culture"
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      EroticismErotic artPornography StudiesGreek symposion
Ce mémoire analyse le contenu iconographique d'une sélection de gravures européennes créées au XVIe siècle montrant l’equus eroticus, la position sexuelle de la femme qui chevauche l’homme, ainsi que leur réception positive ou négative... more
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      Art History16th Century (History)Erotic artCensorship (History)