🏺The original kink: Art, Artifacts & Pleasure 🏺

[Cat]

Books—
Miniature erotic tomes.
I have to find the book that I scanned some time ago.

This one in particular from 1850. 2 1/2" x 2"
Once again featuring Priapus.

Ode à Priape

Aigle, baleine,
Dromadaire,
Insecte,
Animal, homme, tout
Dans les cieux,
Sous les eaux, sur la terre,
Tout nous annonce
Que l’on fout.
Le foutre tombe comme gréle,
Raisonnable on non,
Tout s’en mêle;

*****
Ode to Priapus

Eagle, whale,
Camel,
Bug,
animal, man, everything
In the skies,
Under water, on land,
Everything tells us
Who cares.
The cum falls like hail,
Reasonable or not,
Everything is mixed up;​

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Illustration of a man fucking a mermaid under the sea.


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Priapus... What a guy!

But what gorgeous drawings!! And passionate poetry!!

 

[THROBBS]

Yet another example of "it's all been done before".
Hopefully, we can bring something new to the game.

 

[SnowboardPeople]

These are called Spintriae. It is believed that Romans used these coins to pay for brothel “services” in the 1st/2nd century AD, instead of using a coin with the emperor’s head on it and disrespecting the emperor.

More info here..

 

[THROBBS]

From my own collection.
An art nouveau (turn of the last century) bronze. The Satyr can be repositioned.
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About 6 inches across.

!
Out of curiosity, I tried looking this up.
Found one on line.
I suspect that mine must be some sort of copy. We certainly did NOT pay that much.

 

[deft]

The Sin, Heinrich Lossow, 1880.

 

[n8Romantic]

This bronze sculpture is simply signed AB 1876. I was unable to find any information about the artist or the date it was created.

 

[deft]

It is the character's penis, or is the character showing love for somebody elses?

Two interpretations?!

 

[deft]

A vagina being carried by three phalluses. Medieval.

 

[deft]

 

[THROBBS]

Disembodied cocks penises and cunts vulvas that's just weird.

heh heh.

Well it is, especially with legs & arms!

 

[THROBBS]

Reproductions of a broken statue it seems. A bit like Venus de Milo

 

[THROBBS]

To describe something as ithyphallic is to say it has an erect penis. If you know anything about the Egyptian god Min it is that he is ithyphallic – his statues will not let you forget that fact.

Min, an early god known as ‘the maker of gods and men,’ was among the first Egyptian deities to have large statues raised erected to them. Those statues did not attempt to hide his anatomy. He is often shown holding his penis in his left hand. At his cultic sites his sacred animal was usually a bull – animals known for their virility. When Min was linked to the constellation Orion the three famous stars in Orion’s midriff were definitely not representing a belt.

Min was associated with a type of wild lettuce that when cut produces a thick, white sap. Some archaeologists have made claims about just what this sticky white fluid could have brought to the Egyptian mind.

Fixed it.

 

[billrokra]

With regard to the 19th century, especially in the UK, it is odd that it is still generalised as a sexually-oppressed era when it was not uncommon to have families of half-a-dozen children and upwards. Queen Victoria herself had nine children. Over half the Victorian UK Prime Ministers in that period committed adultery. William Gladstone (who had eight children) was the most respectable Prime Minister imaginable yet drank laudanum at the dispatch box in the House of Commons, visited brothels and enjoyed spanking young ladies. Robert Louis Stevenson visited brothels. Lady Caroline Lamb was famous for her affair with Byron while the bisexual Byron slept with anyone. Lady Hamilton was famous for dancing naked on a table at a dinner party and having an affair with Lord Nelson, while scores of gay men fled the UK in fear when Oscar Wilde was put on trial. The Victorian music halls were filled with songs about sex, and there was so much pornography available that it prompted the Obscene Publications Act 1857. 19th century paintings are crammed with Greek and Roman myths because they gave the perfect excuse for tons of near-nudity.

The Victorians looked to the Romans as a model for their society. Some of the Roman erotic art can be so extreme that I'm not even sure it can be posted here - but the category "Ancient Roman erotic art" on Wikipedia shows the very broad spectrum it could take.

 

[AlexBailey]

Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875)
is said to have written The Little Mermaid as a queer allegory.

https://lithub.com/dear-internet-the-little-mermaid-also-happens-to-be-queer-allegory/

“Hurt by Edvard’s (Andersen’s crush) seeming betrayal, Andersen turned to where he always did: his stories. He imagined a world deep beneath the sea, where a mermaid, seeking someone from another world—a human prince—finds herself rejected by him, even after she saves his life and, later, desiring that he see her as beautiful, convinces a sea-witch to give her legs. Nothing works. Unlike Walt Disney’s later, softer adaptation of “The Little Mermaid,” Andersen wrote an ending filled with pathos, where his mermaid, left alone and unloved, “dissolves” into seafoam.”

 

[AlexBailey]

I was crushed the first time I read the original fairytale. It's so sad.

Yeah, Andersen haunts me with his sad stories. I still get choked up by reading The Little Match Girl.

 

[THROBBS]

Back to some visuals...

From my "Complete Book Of Erotic Art"- (not up to date)
which I pulled from one of my studio shelves while cleaning and sorting.


Not "ancient", by any stretch.
Another Cock with a cock penis.

 

[Cwtchseeker]

 

[THROBBS]

More shunga.
(from the same volume)

 

[Cwtchseeker]

 

[THROBBS]

Those are both lovely, tho' they feel somewhat "off the mark" of the theme of the thread.
(as are my own pieces, which I hoped would link to some of the historic images posted prior)
#297 especially, as I think it is a stretch to find it "kinky" or even erotic.

 

[Cindy027]

Turin Erotic Papyrus

The oldest depiction of sex on record. Painted sometime in the Ramesside Period (1292-1075 B.C.E.)



This below is a best guess of the above.

 

[THROBBS]

Turin Erotic Papyrus

The oldest depiction of sex on record. Painted sometime in the Ramesside Period (1292-1075 B.C.E.)


This below is a best guess of the above.

Well somebody has been...

...filling in the gaps!

AhhahahhahHAHahhAHhHAhhHHAhaHAAHhaha

 

[THROBBS]

Late breaking news about "old news"?

 

[cascadiabound]

cross posted from another thread... seemed like this belongs here

 

[deft]

Spoilsports!