Erotica

Modern Islamic criminal law allows for the legal execution by stoning of people found guilty of unlawful sex, including adultery and same-sex conduct. Yet, Babylonians had a much more liberal attitude about intimacy 4,000 years ago.

As early as the second millennium BCE, during the Old Babylonian era, Mesopotamian erotic art was mass produced. The discovery of small clay plaques showing various sexual behaviors at the excavation sites of former temples, cemeteries, and private dwellings highlights the acceptance and appeal of what are now known as pornographic relics.