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Lovers

Pairs of lovers embracing, some having frontal 'sex between the thighs', an accepted form of sex.

Lovers

Pairs of lovers embracing, some having frontal "sex between the thighs", an accepted form of sex.



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This black-figure pelike, probably of 6th century Attic origin, is almost a carbon copy of the one displayed at Men at Work. The vase also shows naked men with their boyfriends, some making love, others courting. This time the love gift is a goat or kid and again we see the eye-to-eye gaze signifying that the love gift has worked its magic. Some men and youths are sexually aroused, and again we have the theme of the odd man out, both a celebrant and as voyeur, and we see the element of surprise. Is he surprised that the boyfriend is aroused?

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