The Archeological Museum Larco-Herrera has a special Erotic gallery, with pottery representing subjects related to sex. For ancientPeruvians, sex was related to fertility and abundance; that's why we have realistic scenes and also vases representing the union of the supreme god with a goddess or a woman. There are vases which have clear humoristic intention, too, but also others with a moralizing message. These are the ones showing erotic scenes between a dead (skeletal) couple or a dead man and a living woman. According to the interpretation of the archeologist Larco-Hoyle, they would mean that the excess, that lust without control can be deadly.
