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Homework answers / question archive / Art or Pornography? Some of the images in the text are rather graphic images of couples having intercourse
Art or Pornography? Some of the images in the text are rather graphic images of couples having intercourse. Moche Pottery Depicting Sexual Intercourse is a Moche ceramic vessel from c. 1000-1250 depicting a couple having intercourse that could have been for sex education. Kitagawa Utamaro illustrated a Pair of Lovers for the Pillow Book in Japan in 1788. Two examples from India include a relief sculpture from the Kandarya Mahadeva Temple of a group and sole individuals engaged in sexual activity from c. 1000 and a miniature painting Krishna and Radha in a Pavilion of a woman and man (Krishna the incarnation of Vishnu) involved in intercourse from 1760. All of these examples depict people having sex, but all are considered art. When are graphic images of sex considered art, when are they considered biological illustration and education, and when are they considered pornography? Can pornography be considered art? To what extent?
