A Randy Royal's Baroque Porn

King August created Dresden's world-famous Zwinger Palace and founded the Meissen porcelain manufacture, which still produces exquisite dishes to this day.

"Satyr with solder" (1590/1595)

While most Germans would happily have a Meissen creation sit on their dinner table or mantlepiece, they might feel a little uneasy about displaying another kind of art associated with the Saxon monarch: Baroque porn engravings that depict everything from lustful men caressing women's breasts to an aroused satyr swinging a soldering iron over a woman's private parts.

"Planet Venus" (1596)

"The intimate character of small-scale printed graphics -- generally the work of men -- afforded a voyeuristic close-up of the opposite sex," according to the museum's press release. "Mythological and biblical stories served as the pretext for erotic and pornographic depictions as well as sadistic fantasies."

"Death and the Sleeping Beauty" (1548)

The pictures -- 230 in total -- stem from the Collection of Prints, Drawings and Photography at Dresden's Royal Palace and were made between the 15th and 16th centuries. They were meant to, well, stimulate the "well-situated male clientele" at the time.

August the Strong still watches over his city as the "Golden Rider"

For August the Strong, they certainly seem to have done the trick: He is rumored to have fathered 365 children with dozens of mistresses.