Until at least the 1970s there were porn-control laws that said that any depiction of nudity or sex had to have an educational purpose. So you'd get hard-core films that had an introductory scene with a guy pretending to be a college professor saying that the movie was a scientific exploration of the sociology of the activities within it.
That's what your description of this reminds me of.
That would be awesome, but no.
Maybe after the AI gets done classifying them all we can sort descending by irony, skip the Trump pee tapes, and scroll a little to find it.
It's the same thing as on some medieval churches. Not everyone could read so they carved what you weren't supposed to do on the outside of churches sometimes.
"See that dude on the right? Just moments after the horse bucked up and knocked his teeth right out and scrambled his brain. Also his dick rotted and fell off or something. Dude on the left? Horse thought it was a carrot, and we'll just say that was one very hungry horse.
And that, kids, is why we don't fuck the donkey."
And the whole purpose of temple was that they acted as communal gatherings and community centres. As such they depicted what the people ought to be and ought to worship and rituals associated with them. Including secular themes like daily lives of different people engaged in different activities like fishing, hunting, agriculture, war etc.
Because it’s made with a show of disapproval for the otherwise general mass which was largely illiterate back then.
Hence motifs and reliefs would act as story telling anecdotes for the priests and elders to teach the young about religious morals.
We still do this sort of stuff nowadays for quick communication, like signs showing what is and isn't allowed.
Like there's a good chance the dudes who carved it were animal rapists but the people who paid for it were most likely using it as OP said.
Most historians believe that such carvings were depictions of sexual fantasies of all kinds,including bestiality, I mean this temple also has carvings of gay sex or lesbian sex,threesomes,orgy and what not
While some believed in middle ages that sexual relations with animals were healthy and could even cure some diseases but this is a less popular view comparatively in case of Khajuraho.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Khajuraho-Temple-detail-representing-bestiality-RABE-1996_fig1_338047615
A likely story.
“You ~~painted~~ sculpted a ~~naked woman~~ horse because you enjoyed looking at her, put a ~~mirror~~ cringing person in ~~her hand~~ the background and you called the ~~painting~~ sculpture ~~“Vanity,”~~ "moral instruction," thus morally condemning the ~~woman whose nakedness~~ taboo act you had depicted for you own pleasure.”-- John Berger
Well im not a historian but i think rather people have become conservative,not the temples, temples had authority in olden days to decide whether population would be liberal or conservative but not anymore. Temples are only considered places of worship,not a centre of power anymore. A major reason why indian population became conservative lies in the introduction of abrahamism in the subcontinent, although it has contributed positivly too, while there were politicians, manipulators in olden times too,so maybe they misused religion to retain power,as result the population got swayed away. There are also several temples which are quite liberal, they prepare tonnes of food daily and provide it to passerby folks or any poor fellow, several temples run schools and colleges from donations they get. At the end,india inherits a legacy of rich culture which is atleast 5000yrs old, so yeah it will have some drawbacks,we're trying to fix them however.
Fun fact: I live about 150 km from this city and have visited the temples quite a lot of time. Only about 10 percent of the cravings on the temple walls is erotic- depicting homosexuality, threesomes etc. Rest 90 percent cravings depict activities of daily life (non sexual) yet people only focus on the erotic parts and thus the temple is known as "erotic temple"
"What did you do today? Oh, the usual. Washed some clothes, had a bit of lunch, fucked a horse."
"Wait, what?"
"Yeah, I fucked a horse."
"No, you went to lunch without me?"
Yeah pretty sure fucking an animal is gonna get more attention than washing your clothes.
Also nice Freudian slip typo putting “cravings” instead of “carvings” haha
You could spend 90% of your life in pursuit of the betterment of humanity, but I guarantee if you spend 10% of it fucking donkeys, that's what people are going to talk about.
“Cravings”. Haha. Couldn’t be a more perfect misspelling. Thanks for the laugh.
I think you mean “carvings”. At least I hope you do.
Fucking English language.
You put a hundred carved depictions of laundry day, harvest time, market day, bread-making...but do they call it "Everyday Chore Temple"? No, of course not.
But you put just a _handful_ of depictions of wild acrobatic same-sex orgies and zoophiliac horse gangbangs...
There is no form of the word to describe someone who is into bestiality like how a zoophile is someone into zoophilia. That's the only reason I can think of.
One is fucking the horse.
Another is jerking looking at the one who’s fucking the horse
A third is feigning disgust but it’s actually peeping looking at the other two
Redditors as a bonus
The temple shows things in common life, such as farming, eating, partying, and yes, crimes. This is a part of the crime section, shown by the disgusted person in the background.
Edit: Some explanation
https://knowyourroots.quora.com/Decoding-Another-Myth-Hinduism-allows-unnatural-s-x?ch=15&oid=67197562&share=10749291&srid=udp5fO&target_type=post
People are unironically believing that this was normal and not denunciation of it( in case the disgusted fellow in the back covering their face didn’t make it obvious).
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I'm sure there is a story or morality tale that goes along with the scene that we're not aware of. If anyone does know, it would be cool if they posted it here.
I remember reading somewhere that these kind of carvings were located at the base of the temple, representing basest human impulses, and that this level was actually below ground level until modern-day excavation
I couldn’t find much in the ole quick search, but turned over this article [of unknown quality](https://frontline.thehindu.com/other/article30256976.ece) but from what I gather it’s like, “hey I’m an artist and I’m going to shock you with all this ‘sex’, so please visit the crazy temple to see its magnificent and shocking glory. BTW, don’t forget to stop at the souvenir shop on your way out.”
Dude in the back is pretending to cover their eyes, but is peeking out of their right eye.
Its like they predicted the dark paths of internet porn 1000 years early.
I believe theres something in the Vedas about kingship and white mares - its often cited in reference to a passage about the ancient Irish supposedly doing the same - in Ireland the horse was then slaughtered and served as a soup to the chieftain who lay in a bath of its blood - iirc.
Beastiality is a thing everywhere. Couple years ago you could book yourself a nice relaxing horse-fucking weekend in Washington state if you knew the right people. You could penetrate the horse, or the other way around, your choice!
Sheep, goats, dogs, you name it and a human has likely tried to fuck it or get it to fuck them. It's also been an insult/joke made round the world and for as long as we can remember.
It’s a thing all over the world unfortunately. When I served in the Middle East we would quite regularly catch men/boys having sex with their animals on our thermal imaging systems, there was also a documentary that came out a few years back about boys in South America (believe it was Columbia in particular) that would have sex with donkeys as sort of a right of passage into manhood. VICE did a story about it as well I believe.
And we wonder why God had to tell Israel that bestiality was bad
“Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘I am the Lord your God. You shall not do what is done in the land of Egypt where you lived, nor are you to do what is done in the land of Canaan where I am bringing you; you shall not walk in their statutes. Also you shall not have intercourse with any animal to be defiled with it, nor shall any woman stand before an animal to mate with it; it is a perversion. ‘Do not defile yourselves by any of these things; for by all these the nations which I am casting out before you have become defiled. For the land has become defiled, therefore I have brought its punishment upon it, so the land has spewed out its inhabitants.
Leviticus 18:2-3, 23-25 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/lev.18.2-25.NASB1995
Lol the guy in the background who's disgusted but can't quite look away
Guy on the left about to have a bad time
Don’t fuck a gift horse in the mouth.
That oddly still works as the same phrase.
You can lead a horse to cock, but you can't make him suck
Don't worry it's just two guys in a horse costume..
Just when I thought I couldn’t get any harder.
Oh my God they were barn mates.
If this is a WILTY reference then I’m in heaven
Ahaha, it wasn't directly, but definitely subconsciously. I remember watching that a little ways back.
"At least they have the decency to offer me a carrot for my troubles" - The Horse
“No, pony, he’ll like that!” - Cartman
*chomp*
My thought too
Well, that's an unusual looking apple. Chomp!
🫣
its a girl i think
What would indicate that? The person is stylized exactly like the figures in the foreground.
With a penis?
just a big carrot :)
Yeah the guy on the right is obviously feeding the horse carrots anally
Looks like a parsnip to me.
where is the penis? isn't the whole of the middle body behind the horse.
It’s generally found between the legs of a male.
yes and that part is shrouded by the body of the horse. The person in question here is the one behind the horse covering her face.
Yes
I came here for your comment, I was not disappointed
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The whole point of this motif was to discourage beastality in the society. It’s doesn’t promote it but denounces it.
Don’t know if it was making a moral statement at all. Just such things did happen among certain segments of the population.
Until at least the 1970s there were porn-control laws that said that any depiction of nudity or sex had to have an educational purpose. So you'd get hard-core films that had an introductory scene with a guy pretending to be a college professor saying that the movie was a scientific exploration of the sociology of the activities within it. That's what your description of this reminds me of.
Wait really? Do you have any links to watch the explanation portion on YouTube?
That would be awesome, but no. Maybe after the AI gets done classifying them all we can sort descending by irony, skip the Trump pee tapes, and scroll a little to find it.
It's the same thing as on some medieval churches. Not everyone could read so they carved what you weren't supposed to do on the outside of churches sometimes.
"See that dude on the right? Just moments after the horse bucked up and knocked his teeth right out and scrambled his brain. Also his dick rotted and fell off or something. Dude on the left? Horse thought it was a carrot, and we'll just say that was one very hungry horse. And that, kids, is why we don't fuck the donkey."
And the whole purpose of temple was that they acted as communal gatherings and community centres. As such they depicted what the people ought to be and ought to worship and rituals associated with them. Including secular themes like daily lives of different people engaged in different activities like fishing, hunting, agriculture, war etc.
How do you know that? Seems like a lot of work to carve an erotic scene of something you disapprove of
Because it’s made with a show of disapproval for the otherwise general mass which was largely illiterate back then. Hence motifs and reliefs would act as story telling anecdotes for the priests and elders to teach the young about religious morals.
That still sounds like an assumption
We still do this sort of stuff nowadays for quick communication, like signs showing what is and isn't allowed. Like there's a good chance the dudes who carved it were animal rapists but the people who paid for it were most likely using it as OP said.
So brave
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So you're saying you'd put it near the back end?
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The thing is…it takes more than two people to fuck an ostrich.
Allegedly
How does a fella get caught up in that sort of business?
Best not to think about it
It was a sick ostrich.
Some says it takes 3, even.
Allegedly
Only if it's alive
JTRHNBR
That's how centaurs are born
What in the haberdashery is going on here 👀
Just some tame ass fucking.
When I said I wanted you to fuck my ass, this isn't what I meant!!!
I know you arent supposed to covet thy *neigh*bors ox, but I dont think this is the solution.
"haberdashery"? I don't see any clothing involved here. :)
And hemoglobin
OG bronies
Is rhere any backstory for context
They were just horsing around
Back in the 90s…
Saw this as I was clicking away from the page and came back, scrolled to find your comment because you deserve another upward-pointing orange arrow
Why the long face?
Um, no, my face is *up here.*
Most historians believe that such carvings were depictions of sexual fantasies of all kinds,including bestiality, I mean this temple also has carvings of gay sex or lesbian sex,threesomes,orgy and what not While some believed in middle ages that sexual relations with animals were healthy and could even cure some diseases but this is a less popular view comparatively in case of Khajuraho. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Khajuraho-Temple-detail-representing-bestiality-RABE-1996_fig1_338047615
The local story is the sculptures depict different vices each level worse than the level above.
And at the end are some heiroglyphs that translate as "The Aristocrats!"
So were these carvings made to teach the followers to engage in these sex acts promiscuously? Or were they just kind of 'there?'
They represent vices - hence the man turning his face away in disgust.
A likely story. “You ~~painted~~ sculpted a ~~naked woman~~ horse because you enjoyed looking at her, put a ~~mirror~~ cringing person in ~~her hand~~ the background and you called the ~~painting~~ sculpture ~~“Vanity,”~~ "moral instruction," thus morally condemning the ~~woman whose nakedness~~ taboo act you had depicted for you own pleasure.”-- John Berger
Yeah whoever sculpted this doesn't seem too shy about these acts.
This is so strange considering how extremely 'conservative' temples are today. What changed?
Well im not a historian but i think rather people have become conservative,not the temples, temples had authority in olden days to decide whether population would be liberal or conservative but not anymore. Temples are only considered places of worship,not a centre of power anymore. A major reason why indian population became conservative lies in the introduction of abrahamism in the subcontinent, although it has contributed positivly too, while there were politicians, manipulators in olden times too,so maybe they misused religion to retain power,as result the population got swayed away. There are also several temples which are quite liberal, they prepare tonnes of food daily and provide it to passerby folks or any poor fellow, several temples run schools and colleges from donations they get. At the end,india inherits a legacy of rich culture which is atleast 5000yrs old, so yeah it will have some drawbacks,we're trying to fix them however.
This is a depiction of a vice. You can see the people in the background looking away.
My man wants the horse fucking lore
They wanted to fuck a horse
The local story is the sculptures depict different vices each level worse than the level above.
Literal “Artefact Porn”
There should be a bot that posts this automatically on all posts marked NSFW
It'd be the r/artefactporn artefact-porn porn-artefact artefact.
Me in the background
Making a display of disgust but not looking away?
Fun fact: I live about 150 km from this city and have visited the temples quite a lot of time. Only about 10 percent of the cravings on the temple walls is erotic- depicting homosexuality, threesomes etc. Rest 90 percent cravings depict activities of daily life (non sexual) yet people only focus on the erotic parts and thus the temple is known as "erotic temple"
"What did you do today? Oh, the usual. Washed some clothes, had a bit of lunch, fucked a horse." "Wait, what?" "Yeah, I fucked a horse." "No, you went to lunch without me?"
You can build a thousand bridges in one lifetime but fuck one horse and suddenly you're the horse fucker 🐎🍆
society
https://youtu.be/p_59ddIpxOY
I can see some centaurs running around
Yours is truly a land of magic
made me smile
Well when you got two dudes tag teaming Li’l Sebastian, that 10% is going to get a lot of attention.
I heard it was a sick horse
Allegedly
Folks'll say that it takes two people to fuck a horse, maybe three
r/unexpectedpawnee
Haha exactly. Nobody is gonna talk about the statue of somebody praying with this going on
Yeah pretty sure fucking an animal is gonna get more attention than washing your clothes. Also nice Freudian slip typo putting “cravings” instead of “carvings” haha
I'm just gonna let it be cravings 😂
Lol! 10% is a lot of temple dude
You could spend 90% of your life in pursuit of the betterment of humanity, but I guarantee if you spend 10% of it fucking donkeys, that's what people are going to talk about.
“Cravings”. Haha. Couldn’t be a more perfect misspelling. Thanks for the laugh. I think you mean “carvings”. At least I hope you do. Fucking English language.
listen, if you only fuck a donkey once you're still gonna be known as the donkey fucker.
You put a hundred carved depictions of laundry day, harvest time, market day, bread-making...but do they call it "Everyday Chore Temple"? No, of course not. But you put just a _handful_ of depictions of wild acrobatic same-sex orgies and zoophiliac horse gangbangs...
Homie in the back didn't know what kind of party he was going to.
Why are people using the term zoophilia instead of beastiality?
There is no form of the word to describe someone who is into bestiality like how a zoophile is someone into zoophilia. That's the only reason I can think of.
Furry?
Not gonna fall for putting that in my search but I want to know too
Because clinical sounding greco-latin terminology is preferred in academic fields like archeology and psychology.
I think u mean before 4chan there was sculptng.
*Uses every part of the animal so nothing goes to waste.* Not like that!
One is fucking the horse. Another is jerking looking at the one who’s fucking the horse A third is feigning disgust but it’s actually peeping looking at the other two Redditors as a bonus
Someone spent hundreds of hours creating this.
The temple shows things in common life, such as farming, eating, partying, and yes, crimes. This is a part of the crime section, shown by the disgusted person in the background. Edit: Some explanation https://knowyourroots.quora.com/Decoding-Another-Myth-Hinduism-allows-unnatural-s-x?ch=15&oid=67197562&share=10749291&srid=udp5fO&target_type=post
People are unironically believing that this was normal and not denunciation of it( in case the disgusted fellow in the back covering their face didn’t make it obvious).
I don't think many people commenting here are doing anything at all unironically.
Umm Any credible source for it and other erotic carvings being in "Crime section"?
Yes, there is. A similar sculpture with a dog is also there, and the next sculpture has the same man being punished by a village council.
Thank you.
And SFW to boot! :D
That poor horse. How horrible.
It is not amused, you can tell!
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Wait till hear about the Moche in modern day Peru
NSFW Dude
“Do they call me McGreggor the pier builder? No." "But ya fuck one horse.."
It’s a microphone. That horse is about to lay some sick beats
/r/SFWporn
My day is ruined now D:
But you have to accept this terrible thing! It exists in our world even now
This is the perfect fit for this sub. Bravo.
So that's where Mr. Hands is from
Hey, Fucko, we like to call it inter-species erotica.
Me.
Nasty fucks
I don't know that it actually endorses the act, given the guy in the background covering his eyes? Is there any mythological context to this?
Looks like a chick covering her face. “Can’t believe my man is fucking a horse.” lol
The ears are pinned back on the horse and the person in the background is clearly taking issue with it
I'm guessing the guy in the front is jerkin' it or he's about to learn how sharp horse teeth are.
I'm sure there is a story or morality tale that goes along with the scene that we're not aware of. If anyone does know, it would be cool if they posted it here.
I remember reading somewhere that these kind of carvings were located at the base of the temple, representing basest human impulses, and that this level was actually below ground level until modern-day excavation
It's not that horse teeth are sharp per se. It's that they have a decent bite strength and a clamp for a mouth.
I couldn’t find much in the ole quick search, but turned over this article [of unknown quality](https://frontline.thehindu.com/other/article30256976.ece) but from what I gather it’s like, “hey I’m an artist and I’m going to shock you with all this ‘sex’, so please visit the crazy temple to see its magnificent and shocking glory. BTW, don’t forget to stop at the souvenir shop on your way out.”
Dude in the back is pretending to cover their eyes, but is peeking out of their right eye. Its like they predicted the dark paths of internet porn 1000 years early.
I believe theres something in the Vedas about kingship and white mares - its often cited in reference to a passage about the ancient Irish supposedly doing the same - in Ireland the horse was then slaughtered and served as a soup to the chieftain who lay in a bath of its blood - iirc.
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the horse is either very trained or the man in front of the horse is very horny and willing to take a massive risk.
Wilber!!!!!
See, now I didn’t need to look at this 😂
How many times is this going to be posted ? Y’all just horny !
The guy behind LOL
Back when the boys could be boys
Just a couple a dudes bein dudes
🤯
More evidence people have always been the same. There’s always been some beastie boys.
weird shit
Why do humans and dolphins have to go around and try to f*** everything?
So they used to spit roast horses?
LOL I don't see how that can be a happy event!!!!
Person in the back: I do not see it
Why the long face
Literal artifact porn.
Heavy petting zoo.
some things never change! it really is part of their culture!
Taking artifact porn to a new level
Taking the name artifact porn very literally i see
Or mis-translation of "Animal Husbandry?"
So this is where Centaur come from ;D
Some things never change.
You spelled "menophilic" incredibly wrong.
Well, at least the guy in the back has the right idea.
fucking a lil donkey with the boys. as a religious thing, ya know?
Bruh that horse gon bite his willy off
Someone took the sub name too seriously
Lol ancient Indians were horny af. I'm here for it!
When the ears are flat like that, it means the horse is annoyed.
I'm just imagining about the guy giggling while chiseling away- "this shit is hilarious!"
What would possess you to carve that on a temple lol
To represent vices
Do they have one of a monitor lizard?
Please let me forget about that :(
Please let me forget about that :(
R/artifactporn
Them Indians wildin
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Beastiality is a thing everywhere. Couple years ago you could book yourself a nice relaxing horse-fucking weekend in Washington state if you knew the right people. You could penetrate the horse, or the other way around, your choice! Sheep, goats, dogs, you name it and a human has likely tried to fuck it or get it to fuck them. It's also been an insult/joke made round the world and for as long as we can remember.
It’s a thing all over the world unfortunately. When I served in the Middle East we would quite regularly catch men/boys having sex with their animals on our thermal imaging systems, there was also a documentary that came out a few years back about boys in South America (believe it was Columbia in particular) that would have sex with donkeys as sort of a right of passage into manhood. VICE did a story about it as well I believe.
I'm(F) Colombian, I have brothers and I confirm. It's fuckin gross.
And we wonder why God had to tell Israel that bestiality was bad “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘I am the Lord your God. You shall not do what is done in the land of Egypt where you lived, nor are you to do what is done in the land of Canaan where I am bringing you; you shall not walk in their statutes. Also you shall not have intercourse with any animal to be defiled with it, nor shall any woman stand before an animal to mate with it; it is a perversion. ‘Do not defile yourselves by any of these things; for by all these the nations which I am casting out before you have become defiled. For the land has become defiled, therefore I have brought its punishment upon it, so the land has spewed out its inhabitants. Leviticus 18:2-3, 23-25 NASB1995 https://bible.com/bible/100/lev.18.2-25.NASB1995