The sexual images we see in this exhibit are not illustrations of daily life in Moche society; neither can their interpretation be based on the ideas and values of our own society. Rather, their message must be deciphered from the particular context of the Moche world. We invite you to visit this other world, a world that existed along the arid Andean coast almost two thousand years ago, and to understand the role played by sexual imagery in a vanished American society.