This Treatise exposes a flawed, demented concept of pornography that demeaned the beauty and allure of the naked body.
Depictions of the nude human body have been ubiquitous for nearly 40,000 years.
During the Greco-Roman Era, the human body was exulted as a temple of elegance and grace. In Greek Mythology, the gods, male and female, took pleasure in co-mingling with human bodies. The Romans celebrated the body as a source of beauty and strength. They honored the genitals of the female body as the Mound Of Venus and adorned their lintels with an image of the phallus to represent happiness.
The Greco-Roman veneration of the body was corrupted by the religious myth of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. It is a farcical tale in which the human body is demeaned and shamed. Shame became a Chistian article of faith that perverted and dominated Western Civilization’s concepts of sex and procreation for over two thousand years. To this day, any bodily depiction that “stirs the loins” is, according to this Christian Myth of Shame, objectively evil.
This perverted dichotomy spawned an odious concept of pornography. As a result, there are two antithetical views of pornography. To the Christian viewer pornography is the source of impure sinful thoughts. To the secular viewer, sans the religious myth of shame, the nuanced feelings aroused by pornographic depictions are natural and appropriate.