Michelangelo’s David is pornography..?

[eddielee]

Astounding ignorance, thinking that the statue of David is porn. David does have a lovely ass.

 

[rareboy]

I always keep wondering how damaged a parent has to be to find something pornographic in everything they see...but at the end of the day...it is all about control that their pastors and imams and priests want to exert over them...and then the control these parents feel they need to exert over their children. They are terrified that their daughters seeing a naked flaccid cock will immediately turn into the town slut at the age of 12.

Did I find naked paintings and sculpture exciting as I reached the age of puberty? Of course. But I was made aware, by the presence of artbooks and encyclopedias in our own home that nakedness did not always equate with sexual arousal and as I may have noted previously, at that age we already had the boys' club stash of titty and nudie mags lifted from our fathers' or uncles' collections.

Before I let the Italians off the hook though, the Vatican would not allow any shorts above the knee for men or shorts and skirts for women to access the Sistine Chapel or St. Peter's.

And it was the Italians themselves who long ago defaced Michelangelo's Last Judgement, Sistine Chapel and other artists works with draperies and fig leaves.

 

[rareboy]

And yeah...The Simpson's predicted this.

The Simpsons Predicted The Ridiculous Florida Row About Michelangelo's David

"It graphically portrays parts of the human body which, practical as they may be, are evil".

www.iflscience.com

 

[cityboy-stl]

I'm waiting for them to start protesting symphony orchestras performing Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique. The story of the music is about a guy on a hallucinogenic drug trip that ends in a satanic witch's sabbath.

Wait until they hear about the brother sister twin incest in Die Wälkure.

The insanity never ends.

 

[cityboy-stl]

Astounding ignorance, thinking that the statue of David is porn. David does have a lovely ass.

True. And despite the teeny weenie, he does have really nice balls, and it looks like they're shaved too!

 

[gsdx]

True. And despite the teeny weenie, he does have really nice balls, and it looks like they're shaved too!

Has it not occurred to you just how impossibly difficult individual ball hairs are to sculpt in marble?

 

[cityboy-stl]

Has it not occurred to you just how impossibly difficult individual ball hairs are to sculpt in marble?

Oh come on. Lighten up. It was just a fun comment. Don't you see the laughing emoji? Geez.

 

[gsdx]

I saw the laughing emoji. I didn't think it was necessary in my response, especially when imagining Michelangelo carving ball hairs with a hammer and chisel.

 

[Kahaih]

Has anyone ever challenged David's ethnicity? How far off might this statue be?

 

[Peloso]

Has anyone ever challenged David's ethnicity? How far off might this statue be?

100% American.

 

[Alistair]

Has anyone ever challenged David's ethnicity? How far off might this statue be?

He’d look like that just as much as the white sheep herder Jesus looks like the real thing.

 

[Peloso]

He’d look like that just as much as the white sheep herder Jesus looks like the real thing.

There weren't even any white people back then.

Also, I've heard that Jesus had a third nipple.

 

[Kahaih]

Also, I've heard that Jesus had a third nipple.

That produced wine. We won't get into where he pulled the fish from, though.

 

[pornoboy]

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[Kahaih]

/\ Did you really just bump this thread with rubber nuts?

 

[cityboy-stl]

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Since their car was not born with balls, they're now driving around in a transsexual vehicle.
I guess they haven't thought about that yet.

 

[eddielee]

You know, if he's Hebrew, he should have a cut cock. That would drive the religious zealots crazy. Cut cocks, for whatever reason, seem a little more risqué on statues. I think showing the cock head takes it to a new level.

 

[NotHardUp1]

Since their car was not born with balls . . .

Nah. They were always up there. They just hadn't dropped yet.

 

[rareboy]

Let's not forget that this was the other work of art that offended the parent. I mean. What the actual fuck?

I keep waiting to hear that there is a lawsuit underway....

 

[unloadonme]

An update on the story:

Principal forced to resign over Michelangelo's David visits sculpture

"It's beautiful," said the educator, who was forced to resign after students were shown the masterpiece.

www.bbc.co.uk