Before the advent of the little blue pill, Renaissance men and women turned to apothecaries and folklore in order to attain sexual satisfaction. The ceramic drug jar above depicts a phallus complete with testicle haunches, bird’s feet and wings, a rabbit’s ears and face, and sporting a bell around its neck. This jar is one …
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What did Renaissance people see when they looked at nude bodies, voluptuous flesh and sexual acts? This question is more complex than you might think. Today, we would label images of the eroticized body and coitus as pornography, but in the early 16th century the modern pornography industry had not yet been born. The word …
The Renaissance Uncensored 