Here is the definition of erotic, according to 93-year-old artist Martha Edelheit. “It’s sensual, nonviolent, consensual, warm, inviting, sometimes funny, witty ...

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The Hague, Netherlands — The Netherlands' national museum has a new object on display that merges art with Amsterdam's infamous Red Light District: a nearly 200-year-old condom, emblazoned with erotic ...

In the early modern era, divine and erotic passions were not as polar as they may seem to us today. Jusepe de Ribera, "The Sense of Touch" (c.1615–16), oil on canvas, 45-5/8 x 34-3/4 inches (image ...

Graphic depictions of enormous phalluses and acrobatic sex positions have long rendered centuries-old Japanese erotic art taboo, but a rare exhibition aims to prove the genre is a world apart from ...

Sex, slavery, and rebellion collide in Raging Clouds, a lush graphic novel that reimagines 16th-century Holland as a powder keg of female desire and defiance. Korean artist Yudori makes her ...

Japan’s adult movie industry is among the biggest in the world, and its range of pornographic manga is eclectic and ubiquitous. But it has taken centuries-old works of art for the country to challenge ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KTVU)— Art is sort of imitating life in some filthy ways at a new San Francisco exhibition, but merely by coincidence. With its depictions of brilliant glittery genitalia, themes of ...

Joseph Mallord William Turner is known, of course, for maritime masterpieces such as The Fighting Temeraire (1839). But the painter dubbed the “father of Modern art” also had a more sensual side—and ...

Japanese erotic art, or shunga, has a long history, with thousands of high- quality paintings, prints, handscrolls and illustrated books produced by artists both celebrated and anonymous, mostly from ...