Khajuraho, India Some of the most erotic art in India, a loving couple embrace before voyeur, Chitragupta Temple

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Khajuraho, India. The temples contain some of the most explicit erotic art in the world. The caves were hidden under deep undergrowth until rediscovered by an English pioneer at the end the 19th century. The erotic carvings show a loving couple and one other female. This is on Chitragupta Temple. Rabindranath Tagore wrote of Konark: "here the language of stone surpasses the language of man'. It is in its entirety, a Temple to the sun god with 24 wheels each about 10' in diameter, there are three images of the Sun God Positioned to catch the rays of the sun at dawn, at noon and at sunset.

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Size: 3400px × 4963px
Location: Khajuraho, India
Photo credit: © Tom Hanley / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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