"The creative act is profoundly erotic in nature". Adolf Loos observes that the world's earliest expression of ornament - the cross - sprang from erotic impulses. The most primitive, the pre-historic artist, the caveman, when he resolved to put on the rugged surfaces of the rocks, his first impression of art, he was setting free a long cherished desire to give form to his erotic dreams. Since then there has never been a dearth of artists who had not fully and robustly indulged themselves in giving shape with "lingering worshipful details" the curvaciousness and voluptuary the erotic art is associated with. Artists like Brauner, Rembrandt, Renoir, Masson, Dix, Rodin, Rubens, Picasso and Brauner had determindly integrated erotic elements in their artistic expressions. Their art epitomises a departure from the continual depiction of 'demureness', 'grace', 'chestity', 'virginity', 'gentleness' and 'religiosity' thriving during the reigns of subjugation and suppression when false shame and prudish taboos held the sway.

The dosage of erotic desire is detremined by the clothes we choose to wear. " Like the flame of a lamp, the desire in others can be intensified or extinguished." Clothes play a full spirited hide and seek game with the gaze of the beholder. Clothes quite dutifuly provide double-edged service, the wearer is saved from becoming a wandering exhibitionist spectacle but at the same time tantalizes the gazer's curiosity.

This is the reason why "striptease weaves a powerful erotic spell". Bodies are the pleasure palaces, but the tragic sense of human sexuality today is that is the scene of a violent and frenzied implosion, where the sexual activity it is coded by the logic of exterminism and the pleasure is coded by the seductive vision of the hyperreal. Fashion presents a grand and excessively hyped spectacle of hyperreal. It plays a significant role in fanning and firing our erotic day-dreaming.

The cannibalization perpetrated, so unfatteringly, by the global fashion industry, has at first encroached upon, then unsettled and now fully and comptetely has galvanised the distinct cultural indentities of so many civilizations. Fashion today has a power and energy of mass seduction emflaming desires beyond control. Thus cuts, (slits) crevices, curvatures, curls, lengths and sizes of the dresses, create the basis of fascination leading to adore fashion. Clothing drapes and touches the most intimate surfaces of the human skin and the design it-self constitutes a site of freedom or restriction, submission or rebellion, identity or difference. The design's intimate relation to the body means it heaves upon it both pleasure and pain, sacrifice and self indulgence.

Eroticism is not a phenomenan limited exclusively to be experienced by man only. It comes free for both of the sexes. There is no tag like male eroticism and female eroticism. Because both the sexes invariably prossess the power of gaze, the depth of feelings, the wealth of emotions.

All the patriarchal societies of the world have, for centuries, been enjoying an absolute dominion by subversing the sexual identify of woman. But the woman of modern society has won a space for herself. Her sexual urges do not lag behind. Numerous books and magzines dwell deep to fathorn the innermost recesses of woman's sexual desires, her sexual dreams and fantasies. The fantasies bereft of 'guilt' feeling, present the startling revealation and reflection of her determination to leave nothing for imagination. Her erotic dreams provide her an opportunity not only to control but also to menifest that anger, that pent up rage, she has been burning with for centuries. Now she can roam about in her own world of eroticism. She can work wonders with her own self, her own body and put it on fire, impossible for a man to quench it.

Eroticism provides a self desired autonomous power of sexual arousal. Fetishes feverishly feed the flame of eroticism. In fact fetishism is in separably locked with eroticism. Conscious or unconscious, explored or unexplored desire for a particular fetish, like long cascading hair, brunnettee or blond hair, or even bald head, eyes, lips, face, colour, creed, nails, toes, feet, heels, apart from these the accessories like comb, brush, purse, bag, watch, bangles, ring, anklet, shoes, polish, socks, stockings, brassiers, bracelets, all of these, some of these or anyone of these hold (s)

the key for arousing erotic feeling. Uniforms, whether a nurse's uniform or an admiral's uniform too may work as a felish. Body sweat-smell and sexy perfume may also create an ambience to slide down towards the desired goal.

Since time immemorial body art has held a sway over erotic desires and sexual outbursts. Many anthropologists while studying the social history of different civilizations, have made attempts to diminish the traditional gap between the primitive and the civilized as far as the body art traits are concerned. In our modern society the technique of make up, plastic surgery, body piercing and hair-styling are invaribly associated with mode looks and high fashion trends whereas the folk and tribal communities, practising body art, are more elaborately involved with ritual and social institutions. Body art and there by the art of seduction has also been combined with religious beliefs. In India, since ancient times sendalwood paste, turmeric paste, musk and henna have always been linked with religious thought, a sense of bodily aesthetics, linked to the inner harmony of the soul. The ever changing trends in the modern society keep on evolving the ways of the art of seduction scents, painty, cosmetics, artificial hair, nails, high heeled shoes and revealing dresses accentuating physical attributes and above all an aura and charm of the complete personality send the imagination on a wild hunt of erotic dreams.