ABSTRACT
This essay attempts to examine the topic of disgust in terms of the historical changes in the image of the body. We seem to experience one of these changes, when the mandatory wearing of masks after 2020 has changed the way we see each other’s faces, albeit with the need and reason to prevent infection. In Japan Ohaguro and irregular teeth have started to be considered disgusting or at least undesirable with modernization, but the traditional aesthetics did not totally disappear. In terms of the visual representation of genitals and sexual intercourse, Shunga offers many interesting perspectives, but such traditions have also been inherited in different forms in modern culture, such as manga. It is important to note that the pre-modern sense of the body is, to some extent, continuous with modern pop culture and subcultures such as bondage. The fact that sexual representations and activities have meanings beyond eroticism or reproduction can also be considered from the perspective of evolutionary biology.
