Thread: Erotic depictions

Erotic depictions from this period are mainly from the common people and testify to a very sensual large rural view of eroticism, often associated with activities and events from everyday life (scenes from the then-widespread bath houses) and in the form of minstrelsy (as Walther of the bird willow) instead. Erotic scenes were common in the medieval manuscript illumination, but only for those who thought they could afford the very expensive hand-made books. Most of the drawings appeared on the edge of Books of Hours. Many medieval scholars believe that the representations of the desire for erotic pictures and religion combined in a book, especially since it was often the only book that someone had. Other scholars hold the drawings in the margins for a moral warning, but the image of priests and other high-ranking people in sexual activities also suggests political motives.

If the people of the medieval world understood the the need of sex and senses the erotic human in them and thought it as a common and usual thin then why our culture now is not making it as a legal act.

Beautifully reasoned and well written.