I Modi (The Ways), also known as The Sixteen Pleasures or under the Latin title De omnibus Veneris Schematibus, is a famous erotic book of the Italian Renaissance, dating approximately 1524 to 1527. When these images passed through a printing press and was distributed for public consumption, Pope Clement VII jailed the engraver and ordered the destruction of the images. The work was only allowed to exist when viewed by the elite. When accessed by the working class, it was considered obscene. What we can speculate from this is that erotic material itself was not seen as awful, but public access to it is.