As direct evidence of the adoration of the erogenous based on religious teachings, imageries and statues portraying zany sexuality are widespread in consecrated sites throughout the Indonesian archipelago. In a number of temples built in Java and Bali in the past six to eight centuries, sexuality is celebrated in its most gracious – and also grotesque – forms, often with minimal restraint.
Ancient Javanese and Balinese, integrating the prevailing pair of Hinduism and Buddhism with their own Kejawen philosophy, honoured the phallus almost as highly as they did the vagina. They maintained that both were equally
