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ISBN: 978-1-64461-895-0
Hans-Jürgen Döpp
Erotic Orient
Contents
CHINESE EROTICISM
Bound happiness
JAPANESE EROTIC ENGRAVINGS
Between the sublime and the grotesque
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Chinese Eroticism
Japanese Eroticism
CHINESE EROTICISM
Bound happiness
Chinese eroticism
The aim of Taoist art and culture was to reach a state of harmony that would lead Man, confronted by a chaotic universe, towards a new serenity. In this spiritual context, love represented for the Chinese a force which was supposed to unite sky and earth in balance and maintain the reproductive cycle of nature. Eroticism thus became an art of living and formed an integral part of religion (to the extent that such western notions can be applied to philosophical thoughts of this kind).
Taoist religion assumes that pleasure and love are pure. ‘In order to gain some understanding of Chinese eroticism,’ writes Etiemble, a great connoisseur of Chinese art, ‘We need to distance ourselves from the notion of sin and the duality between the corrupt body and the holy spirit.’ This ideology lies at the very base of Christianity. Erotic Chinese art reflects the extent to which we are ‘morally corrupt’ and ‘full of prejudices.’
The Yin-Yang pairing introduces us directly into the world of Chinese eroticism: ‘The path of Yin and Yang’ signifies nothing less than the sexual act itself. One of the best-known sayings of ancient Chinese philosophy, ‘Yi yin yi yang cheh we tao’ (‘On the one side yin, on the other yang, this is the essence of Tao’) indicates the fact that sex