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An illustration from the ancient Roman novel The Golden Ass. The story follows a protagonist who is transformed into a donkey, and one scene describes him having sex with a woman.

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I was looking through a 14th Century Renart manuscript and found this image. A little about the story here:

At one point, Renart really outdoes himself in offending King Noble the lion, and the king brings an army with him and lays siege to Renart's castle Malpertuis. Back in the days before cannon, castles could be almost impregnable, The King surrounds Malpertuis with his army and swears to hold the seige for as long as it takes.

One night some six months later, after a long day of besieging and no progress, the army lay asleep outside Malpertuis. Renart decides to go out and tie each one of them, by their foot or tail, to a nearby tree. The last one he finds is the lioness Queen Fiere. Turns out she'd had an argument with her husband earlier and left him and was sleeping by herself... on her back ...rather exposed. Renart forgets his plans and slips between her legs. Things go well at first, with the queen assuming it's her husband who's there for some make-up sex, but soon she realizes it's not him and panics, waking everyone up to see their queen non-consensually engaged with Renart.

The scene that follows is quite comical at first, with all the tied up animal trying to free themselves. Unfortunately for Renart they do, they capture him, beat him unmercifully, and bring him to the king who is ready to hang him. With all this going on, his cousin and lawyer Grimbart the badger hears from one of them who feels sorry for Renart and wants to help, it's none other than Queen Fiere. She gives Grimbart a charm to give Renart courage. She also tells him to tell Renart that, when he gets himself out of this, that he should come to see her, discretely, and, ...uh, privately.

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The movie in >>18660 might have been shelved, but in the meantime, the actual opera has been getting very popular. In 2014, the Cleveland Orchestra - one of the "Big Five" world-class orchestras in the U.S. - produced "...an immersive, visually stunning...'' production of The Cunning Little Vixen, which added a panorama of 26 foot high digitally animated screens to the stage. They sold out every show. I went to see it, and felt a little mixed about the animated portion, but the music was breathtaking.

This season (their 100th), they're doing it again on 9/23 through 9/26/17 (short notice, I know. ) It is very unusual to repeat an opera like this. Usually, you wait years, even decades, but people apparently loved it, and demanded to see it again. And if you miss it next week, guess what? Cleveland Orchestra is going on a European tour in October (Paris, Luxemboug, Hamburg, Linz...) and will finish with a four-day stand at the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria where they will perform Das Schlaue Fuchslein, The Cunning Little Vixen. Not bad for a show based on an adult furry comic..

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trouble with this topic is how do you determine if a POV image is "straight" or otherwise. depends on perspective, you know?

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I can't get enough of this! Keep it up!