Many (true) artists (not Schiele - he was on another trip) are or was pornographers. It's just a topic. Especially in the 18th century, when liberty was a real fight and liberalism was a real movement, you saw a lot of great artists go that way. Some of them have been judged overly hard by the more puritan romantics, but I love Fragonard, Boucher & Cleland. Mozart's Don Giovanni is one big defence for the libertine etc. So I actually just see it as a pleasant element, the opposite of violence in art that is often seen as serious and exalted (Guernica for example).
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Like to mention Félicien Rops and Shunga.
An erotic Belgian artist and Japanese artform.
Yes, I love both! Rops was actually a part in the late romantic emancipation, where the introverted almost solipsist romanticism somehow needed these brutal transgressions. Worshipping the unnatural, as if such a thing existed...
The complete opposite of Shunga actually. The Japanese natural philosophy of connectedness and spirits that derives from Shinto. Think of the weird Hokusai print with an intercourse between a woman and an octopus. So very matter of fact.