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  • Home
  • About
  • Articles
    • Sex History
    • Sex Worker Voices
    • LGBTQ History
    • Sex Workers Timeline
    • Sex Talk
    • Whore Law of Yore: How New South Wales decriminalised sex work 1979-1995 by Eurydice Aroney
    • Timeline of British Law and Sex Work
  • Kate’s Blog
  • Vintage Erotica
    • Parisian Sex Workers 1930s
    • Erotic Literature
    • Erotic Art
    • 1800s
    • 1900-1950
    • 1950-2000
    • History of Burlesque
    • Delta of Venus Archives
  • Sex Worker Rights
  • Word Of The Day
  • Friends and Allies
  • Historical Hotties
  • Recommended Reading
  • Quizzes

Erotic Art

Erotic art covers any artistic work that is intended to evoke erotic arousal or that depicts scenes of sex. It includes drawings, engravings, films, music, paintings, photographs, sculptures and writing. Here are some of the best examples from throughout history. Click on the images below to see more. 
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'Progress of a Woman of Pleasure' by Richard Newton (18th Century)
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Joseph Apoux's Erotic Alphabet (19th Century)
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Erotic Watercolours by Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger (1805-1880)
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The erotic artwork found at the
​ancient Roman city of Pompeii 
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Erotic caricatures of Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)

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Disturbing art of Martin van Maele (1863 –1926)
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Medieval Sheela na gigs
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Red Umbrella Art
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Erotic Art from India
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Achille Jacques-Jean-Marie
Devéria (1800 – 1857)


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Édouard-Henri Avril (1849 – 1928)
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​Japanese Shunga Art