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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-25/sexy-classical-music-mozart-dirty-songs-the-art-of/103993572

Whether it's Mozart or odes by a 12th century seer, classical music has always been sexy

The first person who thought to write down what exactly might be happening in a woman's body when experiencing orgasm, at least in the Western world, was a composer in 12th-century Germany.

"When a woman is making love with a man, a sense of heat in her brain, which brings with it sensual delight, communicates the taste of that delight during the act and summons forth the emission of the man's seed," she wrote.

Hildegard von Bingen was by no means the first, or the last, composer to explore sex and, more interestingly, pleasure in classical music.

We often don't think to listen out for tales of masturbation or promiscuity, but sex has always been in classical music — either shrouded in sacred 12th-century metaphor or in the composer's liner notes for their symphony.

We might not speak the language of a 13th-century Occitan love song, but it is sitting there in plain sight.

Here's a quick primer, a top five across the centuries of sex in classical music — from erotic and sacred metaphor to utter trash.

Mozart's 'Leck mich im Arsch' (literally 'Lick me in the arse')

This one does what is says on the tin. An exercise in writing a lovely, six-part a cappella canon for a choir to sing — however Mozart gives it his trademark bawdy flair. With the title sung by the chorus repeatedly, this piece is thought to have been primarily a party piece for friends.

Even if Peter Shaffer's portrayal of Wolfy in the 1981 play Amadeus took immense liberties, his 18th-century paper trail does indicate he enjoyed a good time with his friends, singing dirty songs.

Whole article is worth reading. Very funny.