[Aztlan] Sexuality in Mesoamerica

[Ditra Walsh]

Dear Listeros,

There was also a tradition of erotic ceramic sculpture at Tlatilco in Central Mexico.  The link below will take you to photos of erotic ceramic sculptures from Tlatilco that were on exhibit at the Museo de la Fundación Antonio Núñez Jiménez de la Naturaleza y el Hombre in Havana. The activities are being engaged in with great abandon, in total nudity, and orgies also appear to be depicted.  
 
http://www.sexologia.com/index.asp?pagina=http://www.sexologia.com/arte/arqueologia/mexico.htm
 
Ditra Walsh

From: aztlan-bounces at lists.famsi.org [mailto:aztlan-bounces at lists.famsi.org]
On Behalf Of Rodrigo Garcia
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 12:29 PM
To: aztlan at lists.famsi.org
Subject: [Aztlan] Sexuality in Mesoamerica

Hi everyone, 



I have a few questions which I can't seem to find much information about
anywhere and I would appreciate any help you can give me on this.



What do we know about sexuality in Mesoamerica? 

Did people carry the same taboos and negative associations about sex that
we do today? 

Was sex repressed by Mesoamerican religions like it has been repressed by
many other religions all over the world? 

Was nudity accepted in public and if so was sex also accepted in public or
was it something to be strictly practiced only in private areas?

Was sex restricted only to married couples?

What was considered wrong sexual behavior?



And I read somewhere that the Totonacs were more "free", open and tolerant
about sexuality and that they had a lot of sculptures of genitalia. I
wonder if anybody can direct me to where I can find examples of this. Also
I tried searching on the Justin Kerr vase collection for "sex",
"sexuality" and nothing comes up. Does this mean that sexual practices
were never depicted in Maya art? If this is not true could somebody direct
me to art where sexual practices are depicted in Maya or Mesoamerican art?
I know there are at least a few examples of this because a friend of mine
told me he visited a famous painters house in Mexico and he supposedly had
many prehispanic clay figurines of couples engaging in sex, something I
had never heard of before. So I am wondering if the church destroyed a lot
of these or if they have been kept from the public because of our own
taboos against sex? 



Thanks for any help on this!



Rodrigo 
 
 





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