Censorship and The Erotic: 
In Venice, in 1524, Marcantonio Raimondi published 16 engravings often referred to as “the Kama Sutra of the West”. The Church confiscated and destroyed all the copies it could find and jailed the artist. This is one of his works that has survived.
 
Engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi, Venice, circa 1524
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