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If sex were performed in this manner, the woman would create more jing, and the man could more easily absorb the jing to increase his own qi.

Su Nu, female advisor to the 'Yellow Emperor' (Huang Di, 黄帝), noted 10 important indications of female satisfaction. The woman also had to be stimulated and pleased in order to benefit from the act of sex. Then, learn about the NASA-funded experiment that led to sex acts between a woman and a dolphin.For Taoists, sex was not just about pleasing the man. Here are some of the most interesting historical pieces of erotic art.Įnjoy this gallery of erotic art? Next, check out these bizarre photos that prove history was far stranger than your ever realized. Sexual art was sometimes used to denote that a place was a brothel, to promote fertility, to tell sexual stories, or even to mark graves. Sculptures of penises and vaginas are rampant throughout cultures across the world, with many using exaggerated figures of theses genitals as representations of gods of fertility.įrom Rome to India to Persia to the Americas, sexual art existed throughout the ancient world.

When the lost city of Pompeii was first rediscovered in the 19th century, King Francis of Sicily had all the many sex artifacts found placed in a "secret cabinet" to be locked away.Īs sexual norms have changed through the course of the 20th century, we have begun to see the true nature of the past, and see that many past civilizations celebrated sexuality and genitalia in a way that would seem extreme today. This view was supported by many of the authorities of the 20th century, who often edited explicitly sexual objects and events out of history books and museums. Most of us look to the past and think of an era where sexuality was a taboo subject, until the groundbreaking social changes of the 60s and 70s. However, the repressive view of sexuality espoused by the Church in the Middle Ages, and then the repressed sexuality of the Victorian era have left many in the Western world believing that few if any in the past were willing and able to accept and even revel in their sexuality. There have been cultures and times were explicit references to sexuality were more accepted by societal norms, and times when there have not.

Since the beginning of civilization, humans have incorporated sexuality into erotic art, worship, and daily life. Sexuality has been a part of the human experience since our inception as a species.