Little was known about the moche civilization until the 1980s when archaeologists began uncovering monuments and tombs containing detailed murals, and incredible ceramics that depicted detailed scenes of hunting, fighting, sacrifice, ceremonies, and explicit sexual encounters I mean, of course… so why did these moche potteries exist The moche, one of the world’s great ancient civilizations, occupied the northern coast of peru from roughly a.d
Object of Intrigue: Moche Sex Pots - Atlas Obscura
They produced beautiful ceramic vessels
Hundreds of thousands are in museums worldwide
A unique subset is composed of “erotic” pottery, or “sex pots.” inelegantly—albeit appropriately—named, moche sex pots depict human figures engaged in a wide range. Moche sex pots erotic pottery from the ancient andean moche civilization is the world’s most renowned…and explicit. The year is 1954, and the setting is one of the great sugar plantations on peru’s north coast The ceramics are the stars of the occasion, but the humans are stellar, too
The host is the hacienda owner, the distinguished peruvian archaeologist rafael larco hoyle,¹. Along with the impressive portrait vessels are the sex pots, ceramic vessels that depict moche people engaging in sodomy, masturbation, and fellatio. But definitely not having sex since sex is for procreation and only the livings can do that
