Medieval erotica
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Saint Paul, Clerical celibacy (Catholic Church)
Eroticism is rare in the art of the Early Christian period and the Middle Ages. Pagan monuments were often overtly sexual, but Christian art shunned the world of physical love [...]. Christianity was a non-sexual religion (Virgin birth of Jesus). --Peter Webb, 1975, page 104
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