Mujer, sexo y fertilidad en la escultura azteca

Abstract

In the plastic Aztec production the feminine figures are abundant. Especially, divinities and productive women. But representations of marginal women are almost inexistent. Neither sexually explicit images. We can explain it if we consider the role of the sex and of the sexual heterodox practices in the Aztec society. Social order, puritanism and hipocrisy are in the base of this behaviour, as we can appreciate in many texts of the first Christian chorniclers and other authors.