Introduction. Eros and Sexuality in Islamic art: Old issues and new perspectives / Francesca Leoni and Mika Natif -- Making love not war: The iconography of the cockfight in medieval Egypt / Fahmida Suleman -- The generative garden: Sensuality, male intimacy, and eternity in Govardhan's illustration of Saʻdī's Gulistān / Mika Natif -- Where have all the boys gone? The Lady of the 'Sala de Justicia' ceilings and Nasrid poetics of sacred and profane love / Cynthia Robinson -- Visibly foreign, visibly female: The eroticization of the zan-i farangī in seventeenth-century Persian painting / Amy S. Landau -- Frontiers of visual taboo: Painted indecencies in Isfahan / Sussan Babaie -- Ottomanizing pornotopia: Changing visual codes in eighteenth-century Ottoman erotic miniatures / Tülay Artan and İrvin Cemil Schick -- 'To not toil in lonely obsession': Modern Persian erotica in the Kinsey Institute / Christiane J. Gruber.