Underpants on a naked statue in Japan.

Victor

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According to the Daily Mail in UK, a Japanese town wants to put underpants on
their statue of Michelangelo's David--one of the most famous works of art
in the world. It is in a park where children might see it. (God forbid)

So which will it be--- Fruit of the Loom, Hane's or designer Calvin Klein briefs?
 

So which will it be--- Fruit of the Loom, Hane's or designer Calvin Klein briefs?[/QUOTE]

None of the above. Isn't that so ridiculous?!
 
I'm surprised to hear this news coming out of Japan since Kawasaki, Japan celebrates, to this day, a phallic festival complete with parade floats featuring...you guessed it. The festival is called Kanamara Matsuri and is all about the male and fertility (I can see google lighting up now lol)
 
Yes Jujube, a bare ankle was enough to drive a man out of his mind!

But underpants on David, wouldn't that make the kids wonder why?

It's amazing, but then again maybe it's not, that the Victorian era with all its repression of sexuality had very nasty pornography.

You know that sex was going on, but nobody wanted to acknowledge it. I once read about a thesis that a college student was doing in the late 1950's on Victorian sexuality. She was interviewing elderly English ladies who were adults during the Victorian era and asking them questions about their relations with their husbands. She asked this one old lady how her husband indicated that he wanted to engage in marital relations. The elderly lady said that he would turn to her in bed and say, "Arabella, kindly arrange your linen." Frankly, that is one of the funniest things I've ever read....I still snicker when I think about it.
 
It's amazing, but then again maybe it's not, that the Victorian era with all its repression of sexuality had very nasty pornography.

You know that sex was going on, but nobody wanted to acknowledge it. I once read about a thesis that a college student was doing in the late 1950's on Victorian sexuality. She was interviewing elderly English ladies who were adults during the Victorian era and asking them questions about their relations with their husbands. She asked this one old lady how her husband indicated that he wanted to engage in marital relations. The elderly lady said that he would turn to her in bed and say, "Arabella, kindly arrange your linen." Frankly, that is one of the funniest things I've ever read....I still snicker when I think about it.
I have actually incorporated that phrase into my life, so much fun!
 
Yes Jujube, a bare ankle was enough to drive a man out of his mind!

But underpants on David, wouldn't that make the kids wonder why?

Haha, that reminded me of a story my husband's grandfather told me years ago. When he was a teenager, he and his buddies would sit on the curb at the streetcar stop so they could see girl's ANKLES when they stepped off the trolley. :lol:
 
I'm surprised to hear this news coming out of Japan since Kawasaki, Japan celebrates, to this day, a phallic festival complete with parade floats featuring...you guessed it. The festival is called Kanamara Matsuri and is all about the male and fertility (I can see google lighting up now lol)

That was my first thought too, Lara. :confused:
 
The Victorians also had bathing machines, in which the ladies could ride out into the sea to enjoy the water, without being seen in their "bathing costumes."

 
The Victorians also had bathing machines, in which the ladies could ride out into the sea to enjoy the water, without being seen in their "bathing costumes."

All I think when I see those pics is how cruel that is to the horses. Imagine how heavy that crap is to pull through the water, and with people inside to boot.
 
From the website Colorsmagazine.com:

This is how David’s ***** was hidden from Queen Victoria.

London, UK

In 1857, when British queen Victoria first saw the six-meter-tall replica of Michelangelo’s statue David in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, she was shocked by the sight of his *******s. A detachable fig leaf was immediately commissioned and kept handy for future royal visits. The proportionately accurate, half-meter-long plaster cast – rumored to be the largest fig leaf in the history of sculpture – made the Queen another participant in the 450-year-long “fig-leaf campaign.”

It began as a reaction to Michelangelo’s work: at the unveiling of David in Florence in 1504, the gathered audience was so shocked that it began to pelt the statue with stones. When another Michelangelo masterpiece, The Last Judgment, was even more scandalous – featuring anatomically correct figures in the inner sanctum of the Sistine Chapel – members of the Catholic Church’s hierarchy decided that something had to be done. Church officials looked to the Bible for a solution, and found it in the story of Adam and Eve, who wore fig leaves when they became aware of their nakedness. In 1563, Church authorities decreed that no work of art should possess “a beauty exciting to lust” so their subordinates got busy painting drapery over the *******ia in The Last Judgment. In the 1600s, Pope Innocent X had the penises chipped off nude sculptures in the Vatican and replaced with metal fig leaves. Ever since, the fig leaf has acted as the art world’s censor, protecting the modest sensibilities of town councils, museumgoers, and garden statue buyers with its generous spread.
 
From the website Colorsmagazine.com:

This is how David’s ***** was hidden from Queen Victoria.

London, UK


In 1857, when British queen Victoria first saw the six-meter-tall replica of Michelangelo’s statue David in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, she was shocked by the sight of his *******s. A detachable fig leaf was immediately commissioned and kept handy for future royal visits. The proportionately accurate, half-meter-long plaster cast – rumored to be the largest fig leaf in the history of sculpture – made the Queen another participant in the 450-year-long “fig-leaf campaign.”

It began as a reaction to Michelangelo’s work: at the unveiling of David in Florence in 1504, the gathered audience was so shocked that it began to pelt the statue with stones. When another Michelangelo masterpiece, The Last Judgment, was even more scandalous – featuring anatomically correct figures in the inner sanctum of the Sistine Chapel – members of the Catholic Church’s hierarchy decided that something had to be done. Church officials looked to the Bible for a solution, and found it in the story of Adam and Eve, who wore fig leaves when they became aware of their nakedness. In 1563, Church authorities decreed that no work of art should possess “a beauty exciting to lust” so their subordinates got busy painting drapery over the *******ia in The Last Judgment. In the 1600s, Pope Innocent X had the penises chipped off nude sculptures in the Vatican and replaced with metal fig leaves. Ever since, the fig leaf has acted as the art world’s censor, protecting the modest sensibilities of town councils, museumgoers, and garden statue buyers with its generous spread.


Fascinating story, Jujube. Thanks for passing it along.

I am neither prudish nor easily offended by male statuary that features nudity, but after a week of touring Florence, Italy's museums, if I never see another stone ***** it will be too soon. Many statues portratyed men who were partially clad, but their nether-regions were on full display. Good grief, but those sculptors (or collectors) were obsessed!

My husband and I, who tend toward irreverence at the slightest provocation, began quietly dubbing some of the statues with modern names. Eventually our traveling companions caught the bug, too. We giggled our way through the last museum.


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Starsong, LOL! Sounds like a fun trip.

When we visited Italy, I was more shocked by the real skeletons on display in some of the cathedrals. They seem to be an everyday part of life there.
 
Fascinating story, Jujube. Thanks for passing it along.

I am neither prudish nor easily offended by male statuary that features nudity, but after a week of touring Florence, Italy's museums, if I never see another stone ***** it will be too soon. Many statues portratyed men who were partially clad, but their nether-regions were on full display. Good grief, but those sculptors (or collectors) were obsessed!

My husband and I, who tend toward irreverence at the slightest provocation, began quietly dubbing some of the statues with modern names. Eventually our traveling companions caught the bug, too. We giggled our way through the last museum.


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Too funny StarSong! Also, I agree with you on Jujube's post, it was interesting.
 
Why stop with underpants? Why not an undershirt, socks and trousers?

Seriously, as I am a figure drawing artist, I received an invitation from an art exhibition for my work--

But no *******s or sexuality could be shown--because kids might see it!! I wrote back that they should post it notes
on the naughty parts. I did not display. Silly?
 
The entire shame/embarrassment of the nude body is a ridiculous affectation and mostly confined to Western nations.

As mentioned above, the Japanese have a "***** festival". Where huge 20 foot-long *****'s are carried through the streets.

The ancient Egyptians often portrayed Gods with fully erect male members.

The Indians (dots, not feathers) have ancient temples literally covered with stone carvings of every imaginable sexual position. The temple priestess would perform sexual favors for men who wished to celebrate love and passion.

The upper class court ladies of the Minoan Civilization went completely topless.

The Greeks of old, competed in athletic games totally nude.

The wife of one of the Roman Emperors (I have forgotten her name) worked in a house of prostitution as just "one of the girls". Certainly she did not do so for lack of money.

At an ancient ruin in modern day Turkey, we can still see, carved in the pavement, depictions of a ****** and carved foot prints to show the way to the house of joy.

Even the normally prim Hebrews of old, held an elaborate annual festival, where Temple Virgins engaged in copulation with the bravest warriors, as a celebration of life. That, my friends, would certain inspire men to feats of heroism.

Some westerners often like to pretend that human sexuality belongs only within the confines of the marital bed.

Ramses 2, Pharaoh of the biblical Exodus, had 120+ children. Today, in King's valley 5 (KV5) we can see an absolutely enormous tomb which at one time held the mummies of all his children.

Interesting aside: The term "honeymoon" stems from a time when the new bride was fed honey-mead wine, to calm her fears, and for 30 days (a full cycle of the moon) kept isolated by the women of the house, thus insuring that any child would, in fact, be the child of the bridegroom.

MINOAN STATUE AND WALL PAINTING
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Why stop with underpants? Why not an undershirt, socks and trousers?

Seriously, as I am a figure drawing artist, I received an invitation from an art exhibition for my work--

But no *******s or sexuality could be shown--because kids might see it!! I wrote back that they should post it notes
on the naughty parts. I did not display. Silly?

Oh Victor, that is so sad..."kids might see it" . This angers me, that babes are taught shame and embarrassment about their innocent selves. The beauty and scientific knowledge of the human body being perverted and lost. Grrrr.
 
Please don't compare Kawasaki which is the 8th most populated city in Japan[FONT=Roboto, arial, sans-serif] compared to a small town of 15,000 which is in the country and probably mostly farmers. It's an unfair comparison. As the article mentioned, it's the first type statue they ever received of it in a public park, and it's of some undressed Caucasian. LOL Maybe let's put a Japanese Samurai statute in one of the little towns in your neck of the woods. [/FONT]:why:
 

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