Hundreds of erotic cartoons were created in every epoch. In one of the Vatican museums there is a statue "World Saviour"(on broad man's shoulders one can see a rooster's head with a beak-phallus), which is taken as a funny caricature nowadays. Grotesque was widely-spread in various forms because erotic caricature was recognized by our ancestors as a great stimulus. Gods of Olympus, whose lives were full of zestful situations, were often the characters of erotic caricatures.

Despite the endless fight against erotic works they were created even in the Middle Ages. Saunas for public and Shrove plays could not change the morals of society. In those times chastity belt to prevent wives from adultery was invented. That Venus belt had become the most favourite object of caricaturists. Renaissance erotic caricature with its unfading satire "Gargantua and Pantagruel" was notable with cheerfulness.

W. Hogarth's engravings "Before" and "After" created as edifying were popular in the XVIIth century.

Erotic caricatures were not isolated; anti-religious and anti-royal literature was steeped in erotica. Streetwalkers, cuckolds, fornicators, and mods ("Inconveniences of Hunting", "Fashionable Riding", etc.) used to be the figures of fun in those times. D. Cruikshank, T. Rolandson, and J. Gillray created a lot of works concerning that subject.

In the times of the Great French Revolution erotic caricatures of Marie -Antoinette and Louis XVI, clergy, and aristocracy were extremely popular. George Sand was also mocked. F. Rops ("Woman the Faun"), Karand'Ash ("Life in the castle"), Foren ("Joy of Adultery") paid tribute to erotic caricature, as well.

In the XXth century Polish caricaturists - experts of laughing absurd