The X-rated paintings that reveal ancient Rome’s fascination with nudity and lovemaking after being preserved in ashes of Pompeii for 2,000 years

Daily Mail UK

By CHAY QUINN FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 20:51 EST, 18 February 2022 | UPDATED: 05:38 EST, 19 February 202

A new exhibition will celebrate Roman art’s obsession with sex in the ill-fated city of Pompeii.

The works will be shown at the Pompeii Archaeological Park starting on April 14.

The eroticism in the works will pay homage to the discovery of a mosaic depicting Priapus, the fertility god, weighing his penis on a scale which allowed discoverers to unearth Pompeii’s ruins in the 1900s.

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