Sex in scriptures
May 14, 2008
In Hindu tradition, all expressions are manifestations of supreme divinity, ‘Paramatman’. Ancient Indians thought that the appropriate use of sex was an art. Perhaps that’s why they called pleasure women as artists. Many of these pleasure women treated their profession as a form of devotion to God, and refined it as an advanced fine art. Sakti in Hindu tradition is a feminine force of creation. Sex was not viewed with any revulsion or perversion and it was simply viewed as a natural behavior. Thus found its place in all the art forms including Sex in scriptures.
In ancient times churches and temples were places where sculptures were commonly used. In both the temple and church we can find Sex in scriptures i.e. with lavishly expressed sexual acts, of course not with the same intentions. Hinduism was more lenient and free towards sex even in their scriptures. Sexual acts was never considered as an act to be limited for procreation, but often celebrated as a way of recreation and even the temples were used as places of prostitution and there were pleasure women living in the temples itself called ‘devadasis’ and thus art forms also treated sexual acts so liberally and many of the temple sculptures pictured the celebration of sex in various forms. Khajuraho temple is the best example for temple Sex in scriptures.
Even though present time Christian churches stay off from sculptures, ancient churches had beautiful carvings in them. In Romanesque sculpture there was an appreciation of beauty and a depiction of the dangers of sexual desire and lust. The arts probably came from the dilemma people were facing in dealing with their sexual acts and morality at the same time, and that some of the sculptures seem to be a vehicle for moral instruction. In Christian philosophies women were often portrayed as the agent of seduction and lust, thus in the sculptures women were shown with serpents, which symbolized condemned sexual desires. Some of the Sex in scriptures was meant to warn against lust and show a possible punishment from god by portraying naked woman having her breasts attacked by serpents.
Apart from the temple sculptures, other carvings also had glimpse of sexual acts in them. Middle age sculptures pictured sexual acts in a direct way by depicting sexual poses and naked men and women; while modern sculptures most of the times use a symbolic approach by picturizing symbols instead of naked people or sexual postures. Picasso, Michelangelo and Rodin used sexual acts in many of their art works. “Women in Tub,” a porcelain sculpture by Jeff Koons, is a sample for these sexual sculptures
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