"This article compares the eroticism of Ronsard's Folastries (1553) with that of the Gayetez (1554) of Olivier de Magny. Although the former exercised some influence on the latter, the eroticism of the two poets turns out to be very different, as much in thematic and stylistic terms as with regard to vocabulary. Moreover, on the conceptual level, when it comes to depicting the body and erotic technique, Magny proves to be far more chaste and less risqué than his master. Nevertheless, the two share at once a belief in the aphrodisiac power of poetry and a mistrust of the sexual act itself."