Shunga : The Erotic Art of Japan
by Marco Fagioli

Shunga, or "images of spring," are erotic polychrome engravings painted by the masters of the Japanese Ukiyo-e school during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The shunga served as illustrations for love novels, instructive albums for young wives, and even lucky charms for warriors. Unabashed and exquisitely rendered, these images are a surprisingly accessible visual chronicle of erotic fine art.

Dreams of Spring: Chinese Erotic Art
by Reverend Yimen

Dreams of Spring presents for the first time the treasures of the Bertholet Collection, one of the world's most important surviving collections of Chinese erotic art. Many of the pictures reproduced are unique in their style and content, and have never been published before.

Sex and the Floating World : Erotic Images in Japan, 1700-1820
by Timon Screech

Shunga prints are unusual in that they are overtly about sex. Once we begin to examine them first and foremost as sexual aids, we must be prepared for some shocks. In Sex and the Floating World, Timon Screech takes us into the strange world of sexual fantasy in Edo-period Japan, investigating the tensions in class and gender experienced by those who made - and made use of - shunga.

Japanese Erotic Prints : Shunga by Harunobu and Koryusai

This book features works from the early and influential Ukiyo-E artists Harunobu and Koryusai. Harunobu in particular is well known for his pioneering work in using a wide range of colors in print making, and for his delicate depictions of women.

Erotica: An Illustrated Anthology of Sexual Art and Literature

Ranging from classical Greece and Rome to the Victorian era and the modern age, the selections and illustrations of this thoughtfully arranged and beautifully presented collection are chosen not only to entertain and inform but also for life-enhancing erotica. More than 100 illustrations, many in full color.

Erotica II: An Illustrated Anthology of Sexual Art and Literature

This second entry offers the same beautiful and daring mix of forbidden art (paintings, lithographs, drawings, watercolors, and photographs--many by masters of the form) with excerpts from banned books (the famous and the anonymous). Many illustrations, most in color. 

The Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage

From ornately decorative to excruciatingly stringent, Japanese rope bondage is an art which has developed over centuries of martial and erotic practice. Now, accomplished Japanese-born pro-domme and bondage practitioner Midori shows step by step how to achieve beautiful and exciting Japanese bondage on a variety of genders and body types.

The Erotic Sentiment : In the Paintings of India and Nepal

Hindu culture has always viewed lovemaking as one of the highest forms of spiritual and artistic expression. In the past it was customary to present newlyweds with beautifully painted erotic manuals on their wedding night. These "pillow books," often illustrated by great artists, helped to break down barriers and initiate the young couples into the aesthetics and techniques of physical love.

Netsuke : Japanese Life and Legend in Miniature

Lavishly photographed and intelligently written, this book is a wonderful introduction to the netsuke art form. The book is filled with full-page photographs of netsuke in exquisite settings, accompanied by a page of text describing the origin and significance of the netsuke. There is also an introductory section covering the history and manufacture of netsuke. While there are no erotic netsuke in this book, we felt it was well worth including here.

Secret Comics Japan : Underground Comics Now

Selected by a former editor of the acclaimed manga magazine Garo and a former editor from Japan's third-largest manga publisher, Shogakukan, this collection of underground comics from the last decade ranges from the beautifully surreal to the graphically gruesome.

The Illustrated Kama Sutra * Ananga-Ranga * Perfumed Garden: The Classic Eastern Love Text

Here, for the first time, Sir Richard Burton's translations of the classic Eastern love texts have been published in one volume. The first Kama Sutra to be illustrated in color with a dazzling and unique collection of Indian painting and sculpture. These erotic treatises are not sex manuals in the modern sense, but a broader and more humane exploration of Eastern sexual customs.