BBC.com recently posted an article on temples in India prominently featuring highly erotic art, dating back a millenium. This stands in contrast to more conservative attitudes on sexuality that have been prevalent over the past few centuries, as the article points out:
“Sexual norms were far more liberal before the 13th Century, giving equal importance to the secular and the spiritual. Sex was taught as a subject in formal education, and Kamasutra, the world’s first sex treatise, was written in ancient India between the 4th Century BCE and the 2nd Century.
“In fact, if you look closely, reminders of these more liberal times can be seen across the country. They’re literally carved in stone in the form of erotic motifs on the lower walls of the 13th Century Sun Temple at Konark in the east Indian state of Orissa. Nudity is prominent in the paintings and sculptures of heavenly maidens at Maharashtra’s Buddhist rock-cut monastic caves, Ajanta (2nd Century BCE) and Ellora (5th to 10th Centuries).”
Read the entire article here:
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20150921-indias-temples-of-sex
thanks to Soror Hypatia for the tip!
