Some people ....
.... see what they want to see.
A Catholic School in Australia has been left red-faced after a newly commissioned statue of a revered saint appeared to be offering to share more than a few loaves and fishes with the little children. Blackfriar’s Priory in Adelaide wanted to beautify its grounds with a statute of beloved Peruvian St Martin de Porres …
I had to click on the link, The people who see anything suggestive and/or offensive in that shadow seriously need to get real and get a life.
I was under the impression that it was their god who came up with breasts in the first place as a convenient system for feeding babies, where is the problem.
I had to click on the link, The people who see anything suggestive and/or offensive in that shadow seriously need to get real and get a life.
If you consider that it is being installed at a school, I think you'll find that a couple of swift strokes with a pupil's marker pen would make a profound difference to the statue.
Either that, or someone along the line has a *cough* sense of humor...
Eh, not the first time it's happened with a statue.
Sometimes, through nobody's fault, these things just slip out. ☺
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"[...] Michelangelo "David" with small child might cause even more consternation!"
Something like this Bacchus?
Other Church artworks that are open to misinterpretation:
Monument of Junípero Serra (with Juaneño Indian boy) on the Plaza de San Francisco de Asis in Havana, Cuba. There are others on the same theme in the US south here and here. His elevation to a saint caused some public protests.
This stained glass window in St. Francis by the Sea Laguna Beach, California takes the prize. Pictures of this window did the rounds about 10 years ago when the Catholic Church scandals were being revealed.
Our Maths teacher drew the usual X and Y axes on the board. Then a line proceeding (for the non-mathematicians) in a drooping North Easterly direction from the origin. A second line in an equally drooping South Easterly direction from the origin, you might say swivelled 90 degrees round clockwise from the first.
Bored 13-year olds start sniggering. "I don't know what made me draw that" he said (probably for the thousandth time).
Ain't nature wonderful.
It's one of those things where at someone suggests it looks a little rude, then we might all snigger at first sight. However after staring at it for a few more seconds it doesn't look at all rude, it's obvious that what's in his hand is just a round lump of something that is in no way attached to the body and doesn't suggest a phallus at all. You come down to earth and realise it's a religious statue, no one's likely to deliberately make a rude statue in church grounds and you simply need to grow up a little bit and see it for what it really is, just a statue.
Although it's given the church a full boost of worldwide PR which never hurts to raise a few more shekels in the old church purse!
" You come down to earth and realise it's a religious statue, no one's likely to deliberately make a rude statue in church grounds and you simply need to grow up a little bit and see it for what it really is, just a statue. "
It's for a school. Yes, the people looking at it and seeing it as rude need to grow up -- that's why they're called "children".
A love an honest mistake, and filth is in the mind of the beholder, but there is a dark history
"In the past 12 years, at least two former Blackfriars teachers — Stephen John Stockdale-Hall and Ronald William Hopkins — have been jailed for sexually abusing students at the school."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-22/statue-of-saint-and-child-creates-stir/9180724
To be fair a lot of religious institutions and schools have been mentioned in a recent Royal Commission on Child Abuse.