At F/lthyGorgeousTh/ngs, I write the Erotica Curiosa column.  It’s about sex in art, history, and culture, and while many of the artists I write about are well-known, many of the images are NSFW. That said, it’s all relative.  I suppose it depends on where you work and what you consider safe.

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Cuckoldry and the Pack-Horse

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Luxury and Lechery

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A Seventeenth-Century Education

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Henri Gervex and Rolla

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Degas’ Interior: Part Two

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Degas’ Interior

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Géricault’s Lovers

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Rowlandson and the Debauched Rake

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Rowlandson’s Skirtlift

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Sheela Na Gig: The Skirtlift

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Man Ray’s 1929

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Phyllis and Aristotle

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Klimt’s Philosophy, Medicine, and Jurisprudence

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Eve, the Serpent, and Death

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Franz von Stuck’s Sin

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Tres Riches Heures

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Bronzino’s Curious Allegory

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Hans Sebald Beham’s Night

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Degas’ Bathers

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Ingres’ Turkish Bath

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Erotic Ingres – Sketches

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Danae the Courtesan

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Titian’s Danae

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The Erotic Shoe

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Pleasures of the Whip: Erotic Pain in the 18th and 19th Centuries

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The Masochists: Erotic Pain in the 18th and 19th Centuries

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Caravaggio’s Bacchus

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Priapic Art in Pompeii

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The Invention of Pornography and the Discovery of Pompeii

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Masturbation in the 18th Century

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Parmigianino and a Censored Print

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A Lesser-Known Rembrandt

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A Sex Chair

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Casanova, a Nun, and a Voyeur

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Victorian Eye Portraits

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Pornography’s Renaissance: Pietro Aretino, Giulio Romano, and Marcantonio Raimondi