Porn is not something new. British Porn is even more ancient!!

I got nothing against the Brits. I just want to show how this issue, is quite old. I just think that when they find some pictures on the walls of some caves that depicts sexual acts, apart from some crying out loud that we come from a long line of evolution, there will be others that we have found that we are sinners from the very beginning. 

From the archeological point of view, a coin has been found in Britain that goes back to the 1st century AD.

Bronze discs depicting sex acts, like the one discovered in London, were used to hire prostitutes – and directly led to the birth of pornography during the RenaissanceOne of the oldest pieces of British pornographic art has just been discovered beside the river Thames. At first sight, the bronze disc found near Putney Bridge in London looks like an old coin – until you notice that it depicts a sex scene.This type of bronze token with its erotic imagery was specially made to spend in ancient Roman brothels. The example found near Putney Bridge and given to the Museum of London is evidence that brothels in Roman Londinium were just as busy as they were in ancient Pompeii, where brothels and their lewd wall paintings are among the well-preserved everyday shops of a Roman town.

 I've seen those paintings, and they are very graphic, from showing bisexual sex, to orgies, and some unusual sexual positions. Graphic indeed. What is not known if those pictures were there for the patron to ask and demand to enact those lewd acts, or to just be aroused through them. This coin seems to have served as a payment for going into the brothel.

Yet this is not just a hint of life in Roman Britain. It is also a glimpse of a hidden art history. These Roman tokens, with their detailed depictions of sex acts, had a dramatic influence on the birth of modern pornography. While the Putney token has been hailed as a rare discovery from Roman Britain, such artefacts showing similar scenes were actually well known in Renaissance Italy. Scholars in the 16th century didn't know what they were – maybe something to do with the reputed excesses of the emperor Tiberius? – but they did leap on evidence of ancient Roman erotic art. Anything from antiquity was considered noble in the Renaissance, so these "coins" (as they were misnamed) licensed saucy 16th-century art, including Giulio Romano's famous series of pornographic illustrations I Modi.It's easy to see how these classical erotic images by Romano, engraved by Marcantonio Raimondi, emulate the images on tokens like the one from Roman London. In turn I Modi, in its printed form with pornographic poems added, became a bestseller all over Europe and returned to the London of Shakespeare. It set the style for a new erotic art.

For those who complain that during the Dark Ages, the Church suppressed all in the lives of the Western Europeans, well, it seems that even porn was suppressed!! The Renaissance was a time for intelectual advancement, but as it seems, also advanced to what we have today as porn!!

I remeber what Paul mentions as one of the fruits of the Flesh:

Galatians 5:21
and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.

And:

Ephesians 5:12New International Version (NIV)¹² It is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.

We must guard our bodies, and our minds!