Moche Sex Pots - Brightlocal News
This article examines moche pottery from pre-columbian peru, specifically vessels depicting sexual acts known as sex pots. the pots often show humans, animals, and skeletons engaged in sodomy. More than a thousand years ago on the north coast of peru, indigenous moche artists created a large and significant corpus of sexually explicit ceramic works of art. They depicted a diversity of sex …
The moche’s erotic pottery represents one of the most thorough records of sexual practices ever left behind by ancient cultures. It is the most prevalent form of erotic art in archaeology. The article focuses on pottery from the moche, and more specifically the famous “sex pots,†connecting the moche’s unique perspective of life, death, and the afterlife.
