[1][3] The final two thirds of Turin Erotic Papyrus consist of a series of twelve vignettes showing men and women in various sexual positions.

[1] The men in the illustrations are "scruffy, balding, short, and paunchy" with exaggeratedly large genitalia[4] and do not conform to Egyptian standards of physical attractiveness.

[1] After Jean-François Champollion saw the papyrus in 1824 in Turin, he described it as "an image of monstrous obscenity that gave me a really strange impression about Egyptian wisdom and composure.

"[3][6] The real significance of the images is yet unknown since those fragments of text that have survived reasonably intact have so far not yielded any clear purpose for the Erotic Papyrus.

Sun, you have found out my heart, it is agreeable work...[2]According to French egyptologist Pascal Vernus, the papyrus is not intended to produce sexual excitement.