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  • #16
    What's the name of the art critic who got all of his lessons on the female anatomy from paintings, then ran screaming from the room when he saw his nude wife on his wedding night, and died a poor lonely pedophile?
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    • #17
      Originally posted by loinburger
      What's the name of the art critic who got all of his lessons on the female anatomy from paintings, then ran screaming from the room when he saw his nude wife on his wedding night, and died a poor lonely pedophile?
      Proving that porn is better than erotica.
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      • #18
        I don't believe it's erotica because I do not consider nudity = erotica.

        Erotica is simply art in sexual context, iow, sex for the sake of art.

        Pornography is in my view something designed to turn people on and sod the art... in other words, sex for the sake of sex.
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        • #19
          Originally posted by loinburger
          What's the name of the art critic who got all of his lessons on the female anatomy from paintings, then ran screaming from the room when he saw his nude wife on his wedding night, and died a poor lonely pedophile?
          He was an artist, not an art critic.

          JM
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          • #20
            what's the guy on the left doing?

            Either way it doesn't give me a stiffy.

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            • #21
              I do know we should take our cues from our fantastic and famed previous Attorney General, who covered those indecent statues at the Justice Department.

              Frankly, the Birth of Venus is a sickening, disgusting display of female sexuality, and you should all be ashamed of yourselves for not having put the painting under a burqa.
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              • #22
                I find it interesting she appears to shave her pubes.

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                • #23
                  A lot of the sculpture/Paintings did, that resulted in situations like the one Loinburger discribed.

                  And I have gotten a 'stiffy' from that painting.

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                  • #24
                    If it was acceptable during the Renaissance, I don't get why it shouldn't be in 2006
                    I will never understand why some people on Apolyton find you so clever. You're predictable, mundane, and a google-whore and the most observant of us all know this. Your battles of "wits" rely on obscurity and whenever you fail to find something sufficiently obscure, like this, you just act like a 5 year old. Congratulations, molly.

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                    • #25
                      Because they didn't know about Jesus back then, Datajack.

                      At least, not the Jesus that saves and hates homosexuals.
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                      • #26
                        You know, a lot of the great theologians pre1800 were homosexual or had homosexual experiences..

                        JM
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                        • #27
                          Jon Miller, stop hating American by being allied with Satan, the French, and those Saddamites (sp? Sodomites?).
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                          • #28
                            Originally posted by Jon Miller
                            He was an artist, not an art critic.
                            JM
                            IIRC, it was a royal. Peter III of Russia?
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                            • #29
                              A Lord, not a prince, and the one I was thinking of was British.

                              JM
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                              • #30
                                Originally posted by Dis
                                I find it interesting she appears to shave her pubes.
                                Actually, she shaved her head and her pubes are so long she had to drape them over her head.
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