Sex art has been popular for centuries. After all, art is about self-expression, and what is more intimate than sex?

For the most part, modern society seems to contradict itself when it comes to sex. On the one hand, we use it to sell just about anything under the sun and have thus wed sexuality with popular culture. And yet, when people speak of sex openly, we tend to look at them askance, questioning their character. But humanity hasn’t always been so conservative. In fact, many civilizations throughout history have openly embraced their sexual nature as not just reality but an art, as evidenced below: