From the Archives: An unusual container produced by the Moche civilization of Peru raises many questions about their society—and our own views of sex.
The Moche, one of the world’s great ancient civilizations, occupied the northern coast of Peru from roughly A.D. 100 to A.D. 800. They produced beautiful ceramic vessels; hundreds of thousands are in museums worldwide. A unique subset is composed of “erotic” pottery, or “sex pots.” Inelegantly—albeit appropriately—named, Moche sex pots depict human figures engaged in a wide range of sex acts involving mouths, hands, nipples, genitals, anuses, and tongues.
About 500 Moche sex pots are held in museum collections around the world; the Denver Museum of Nature & Science , where I am chair of the department of anthropology, has several. One is a well-preserved and fully functional stirrup vessel with a hollow interior chamber for holding liquid, like chicha, a corn beer. The liquid is consumed by drinking from the hollow stirrup spout.
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