This book offers a vast amount of information beyond the details of how the Moche practiced lovemaking 1500 years before the Inca period, which are portrayed in ceramics. The author examines the religious and magical aspects of copulation and analyzes the Andean rituals of sexual connotation such as the akataimita, prohibitions and taboos of that time and the severe punishments that awaited incestuous adulterers and those who indulged in homosexual practices.