(Animated photo of Israeli flag with Israeli man and Israel woman naked with a kiss)

Israel observed the 50th anniversary of its founding as a modern state in 1998. Although a young nation in the world community, Israel has been profoundly influenced by Jewish history that dates back to biblical times, the year 5765, as well as by the Zionist movement in nineteenth and twentieth century Europe.

Erotic art dates back before ancient Israel. There is a myth among some people, including scholars, that erotic images began with the invention of the photographic process.

It is a way to keep us focused on the idea that today's art is far worse than yesterday's. But that all sexual art before the time of Christ represents a sacred union is, nevertheless, a lie.

Of course, people have been prevented from knowing about these images by virtue of our puritanical outlook on things. The sacred is the way we explain away much of what we can't--or don't want to--understand as erotica. It's a smokescreen at best. Once Greeks and Romans learned how to make cheap, molded oil lamps , the market was flooded with sexual imagery in three dimensions. Call it sacred if you wish. Whatever lights your wick. But as with the image above, reproduce the same thing with a couple of models and a camera and it'll be called porn by just about anyone.

Would it be beyond the realm of modern thought to believe that through erotic images, cultures have found a way to mitigate the sexual tensions that limiting access to sex imposes? Is providing a safe context for sexual imaginings as wrong and dangerous as it is universal?

The secret room in the Naples Archaeological Museum, containing sexual artifacts from excavations at Pompeii and Herculaneum, has been closed to all but the very rich and influential for 200 years. But despite vociferous protest, it is now open to the public.

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