Erotic literature has existed in various forms throughout human history. In ancient Egypt, treatises explored sex and positions. Ancient Greece had abundant erotic works due to lack of censorship, such as Aristophanes' comedy "Lysistrata." The Kama Sutra, written in the 4th century, provides guidance on relationships, citizenship, and decorating one's home in addition to sexuality. In the Middle Ages, works like Boccaccio's "The Decameron" and Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" included tales of love. The 19th century saw increased censorship, but the 20th century struggled between censorship and social openness, seen in works by D.H. Lawrence,

1. Erotic literature

2. Eroticism has been linked to human
culture from its beginnings.

3. Eroticism was a natural constant in the
art of storytelling.

4. In ancient Egypt it appeares treatises on
sex and sexual positions. Such as
Papyrus Leiden.

5. In the Bible, we can find a lot of stories
full of love, lust and sin.

6. And also the most beautiful poem “The
Song of Songs” of Solomon.
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth—
for your love is more delightful than wine.

7. In ancient Greece, there is abundant
literature because there was not
censorship.

8. " Lysistrata " by Aristophanes is the
oldest known erotic work.

9. Located in the Athens of 411 BC, this
comedy about a sex strike made by
women is also a feminist play.

10. We also find poems of homosexual content.
Songs of love and perfect beauty of young
efebos.

11. In the Roman Empire, Ovid stands with
his didactic poem “Ars Amandi”.

12. This poem influenced the medieval
“Libro de Buen Amor” of the Archpriest
of Hita in Spain.

13. Petronio also highlights with " Satyricon " which
chronicles the adventures of 3 young rascals and an old
poet.

14. “Satyricon” had great influence on “El
conde Lucanor” by D. Juan Manuel in
fourteenth century.

15. The most famous and universal erotic work is the "
Kamasutra ", written in the century IV, by Vātsyāyana .

16. This book is not only sex-related book but also it gives
guidance on how to be a good citizen, how to maintain healthy
relationships between men and women, how to decorate your
house and many more.

17. Vaatsayana said that love is not just a feeling, it
is a divine union. He believed that sex is not
wrong thing. It is the main base of life.

18. “One Thousand and One Nights” is a collection of
West and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled
in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age.

19. The main frame story concerns a Persian king, Shahryar, who
begins to marry a succession of virgins only to execute each
one the next morning, before she has a chance to dishonour
him.

20. Scheherazade, the vizier's daughter, offers herself as the next bride. On the night
of their marriage, Scheherazade begins to tell the king a tale, but does not end it.
The king, curious about how the story ends, is thus forced to postpone her
execution in order to hear the conclusion.

21. The next night, as soon as she finishes the tale, she begins (and only begins) a
new one, and the king, eager to hear the conclusion, postpones her execution
once again. So it goes on for 1,001 nights.

22. This compendium of stories collected the oral tradition of the
Eastern world and reaches the West in nineteenth century as an
adventure book for children.

23. In the Middle Ages, Italy and France are
the countries with the most relevance of
erotic literature.

24. In Italy, “The Decameron" , a frame story of Boccaccio, marks
the end of the Middle Ages and early Renaissance. This work
was banned by the the Inquisition

25. The various tales of love in “The Decameron” range from the erotic
to the tragic. In addition to its literary value and widespread
influence (for example on Chaucer's “The Canterbury Tales”), it
provides a document of life at the time. It is considered a
masterpiece of classical early Italian prose

26. In France, at this time, François
Rabelais is the author obscene par
excellence, as Voltaire said.

27. Even though most chapters are humorous, wildly fantastic and
sometimes absurd, a few relatively serious passages have
become famous for descriptions of humanistic ideals of the
time.

28. In particular, the letter of Gargantua to
Pantagruel and the chapters on Gargantua's
boyhood present a rather detailed vision of
education.

29. His greatest contribution was the concept of Pantagruelism, the
art of inventing huge jokes, casing, with comic exaggerations,
philosophical truths.

30. “La Celestina”,1499, is considered to be
one of the greatest works of Spanish
literature.

31. The story talks about a bachelor, Calisto, who uses the old
procuress Celestina to start an affair with Melibea, an
unmarried girl. Though the two use the rhetoric of courtly love,
sex not marriage is their aim.

32. Published in 1609, the Sonnets were the last of Shakespeare's
non-dramatic works to be printed. Critics praise the Sonnets as
a profound meditation on the nature of love, sexual passion,
procreation, death, and time.

33. Sexual innuendos in Shakespeare
Shakespeare is obviously known for his masterful way
with words. He is clever at playing around with them
and one area where he uses this talent is when he inserts
puns and/or sexual innuendos in his plays. Some
critics appreciate Shakespeare’s bawdy jokes and puns,
and find that the clever wit of his sexual innuendo not
only has comic significance, but is used to develop
character, themes, and plot as well.

34. "Whore dialogues" are a literary genre of the
Renaissance and the Enlightenment and a type of
erotic fiction.

35. Such works typically concerned the sexual education of a naive
younger woman by an experienced older woman and often
included elements of philosophising, medical folklore, satire
and anti-clericalism.

36. The later works in this genre, such as The Dialogues of Luisa
Sigea (c. 1660) by Nicolas Chorier, indulge in a more
sophisticated type of sexual fantasy and are the precursors of
the more explicit pornography which followed in Europe.

37. Its climax comes after the French Revolution
with the most famous author of pornographic
literature, the Marquis de Sade.

38. Among his works there are "The 120 Days of Sodom"
(1785), written during his stay in the Bastille Prison,
main work of the theories of debauchery.

39. The works of the Marquis de Sade along these lines, coming to
give his name to sadism. Other works of this author are
"Justine" or "Philosophy in the Bedroom”.

40. In the nineteenth century, during
Puritanism, literature, generally,
avoided obscenity.

41. Almost all the erotic literature of this period is
marked by secrecy and anonymous or
pseudonymous.

42. During Romanticism, the most prominent figure is
Don Juan Tenorio, in books of Zorrilla, Byron or
Mozart.

43. During Realism, it appears novels on
the subject of adultery.

44. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch achieved notoriety with
his controversial and successful “Venus in Furs”,
published in France in 1780.

45. The term masochism refers to the
author's surname.

46. The twentieth century was marked by a constant
struggle between censorship and unstoppable
social openness.

47. D.H. Lawrence is one of the leading authors of the
genre, with his novel, “Lady Chatterley's” Lover, first
published in 1928.

48. The book soon became notorious for its story of the
physical (and emotional) relationship between a working-
class man and an upper-class woman, its explicit
descriptions of sex and its use of then- unprintable words.

49. Story of the Eye (L'histoire de l'oeil) is a 1928 book by Georges
Bataille that details the sexual perversions of a pair of teenage lovers. It is
narrated by the young man looking back on his exploits.

50. Tropic of Cancer, 1934, is a novel
by Henry Miller, described as
"notorious for its candid sexuality.

51. Tropic of Capricorn, 1939. The novel was banned in the
United States and in Turkey. It is a prequel to Miller's 1934
work, the Tropic of Cancer.

52. The Diary of Anaïs Nin would be very popular
among young women, making Anaïs Nin a
feminist icon in the 1960s.

53. She was one of the first women to
explore the world of erotic literature.

54. Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov is notable
for its controversial subject.

55. The protagonist is a 37-to-38-year-old literature professor who
is obsessed with the 12-year-old Dolores Haze, with whom he
becomes sexually involved after he becomes her stepfather.

56. The name "Lolita" has entered pop
culture to describe a sexually
precocious girl.

57. Story of O (French: Histoire d'O), is an erotic
novel, 1954, of French author Anne Desclos
under the pen name Pauline Réage.

58. Story of O is a tale of female
submission involving a beautiful
Parisian fashion photographer.

59. Emmanuelle , 1967, (The Joys of a
Woman) is an erotic novel by
Emmanuelle Arsan.

60. It is a series of explicit erotic fantasies of the author in
which she has sex with several—often anonymous—
men, her husband, and also several lesbians
encounters.

61. The Lover (French: L'Amant),1984, is
an autobiographical novel by Marguerite Duras. It was
awarded the 1984 Prix Goncourt.

62. The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricacies of a
clandestine romance between a pubescent girl from a
French family and an older, wealthy Chinese man.

63. In Spain, the publisher Tusquets made a
collection called "La Sonrisa Vertical"
dedicated to erotic literature.

64. At present, the erotic narrative is experiencing a
previously unknown peak, even to surround the
lists of bestsellers.

65. With the advent of "Fifty Shades of
Grey", there is an explosion of erotic
literature.

66. This success does not guarantee the
quality of these books.