ABSTRACT
The authors who aimed at inculcating moral and religious lessons gave vent to their own erotic fancies in the alluring and enticing verbal pictures they drew. Literature could not exist without dwelling on the love interest. Man is averse to admitting certain facts about his mental love life. Man's nature is erotic to its very foundations; he was erotic, in infancy, in his own way; he carries within him all the erotic instincts of millions of ancestors for thousands of years back. Men may be engaged in philanthropic or political movements; they may love their work intensely; they may be consummating an ambition; they may make sacrifices in performing their duties; but withal their minds are pondering on some particular woman, or on women in general. A comprehension of the erotic in ourselves will help us discern many false ideals connected with the treatment of love in literature.
