Eros y cultura

Abstract

It is a commonplace the almost non-existent Spanish contribution to erotic literature. This matter has to do, at the same time, with the consideration on what is regarded as "pornographic". However, it is necessary to consider here how far pornography implies the subject who decides to see something as such. Archaeology, on the other hand, has been giving evidences of the changes produced in ancient iconography's reception; and has come, by this way, to enlighten the consideration of the erotic in Spain itself, where the taboo imposed on sexuality by the ecclesiastical power has limited the erotic to a massive and trivial consume.