You can find smut in any period. In college, I took “Western Literary Masterworks” for English, hoping to avoid the modern smut. The teacher started with selected Greek romances (think “Mrs Robinson”, Homer was too tame I guess), then selected the steamiest and grossest passages from the Bible (e.g. Judges) to represent it. I dropped the class when she selected homoerotic works to represent the Latin masters.
You can find smut in any period. In college, I took “Western Literary Masterworks” for English, hoping to avoid the modern smut. The teacher started with selected Greek romances (think “Mrs Robinson”, Homer was too tame I guess), then selected the steamiest and grossest passages from the Bible (e.g. Judges) to represent it. I dropped the class when she selected homoerotic works to represent the Latin masters.