Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now
The curators of the show say: "We are all here because of a sexual act...
The union of two bodies is an act of extraordinary physical and emotional intimacy.
"The prelude, the process of seduction, the act itself and the immediate aftermath provide the focus for the exhibition...
as humans, we have developed elaborate social frameworks for its expression and its regulation."
Shaykh Muhammad Ibn Mustafa Al-Misri
Tuhfet Ul-Mulk (a Turkish translation of Ruju as-Shaykh ila sibah), 1773
Illustrated Turkish Erotic Manuscript
Alain Kahn-Sriber Collection, Paris © Gilles Berquet
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