A new public sculpture in Kingston, Jamaica that features a nude man and woman has drawn some controversy because of the size of the male figure’s penis:
Apparently, most Jamaicans either like the sculpture or don’t mind it too much. But a very vocal minority has denounced it as immoral, with a lot of the criticism centering on the length of the penis, as well as the general nudity of both figures.
A few people have even complained about the artist’s race, saying that she isn’t black enough to be representing black individuals.
Oddly, few people have commented on the female figure’s rather well-endowed breasts.
The penis is not all that disporportionate (may given a bit of fluffing beforehand). Plus it rarely gets that cold down there. That statue would look really incongruous in Calgary in February. Now the balls may be another story.
The guy looks normal to me. The woman, however, seems to be in some kind of low-gravity environment. Either that, or she had a recent lift job which has yet to settle.
I agree–the male figure’s proportions are quite bulky, and the penis doesn’t seem disproportionately large, even for its flaccid state. This Straight Dope poll seems to suggest that the average flaccid size is about 4 inches long, more or less; the sculpture’s member doesn’t appear to be much longer than that, proportionally speaking (I imagine the sculpture’s scale is over life-size, which obviously makes everything a bit bigger than life).
I suppose people are thinking of classical sculptures, which usually feature quite small penises.
I wonder what John Ashcroft would have to say about all this?
I went to a place in Cornwall recently called Eden Project which is basically a huge garden with plants from all around the world in giant domes they call biomes …
In the Hot Dry biome ( which smelt amazing ) there was a statue of Baccus as a bull surrounded by Maenads.
The Meanads when I got close made my eyes pop. I have never seen a female statue so anatomically correct.
Mine too. So much so that I had to hunt down some pictures to see for myself.
The Eden Project looks like a really neat place. I was able to dig up a reference to the artist who made the sculptures: he’s Tim Shaw, whose website, http://www.timshawsculptor.com/, includes some images of the sculptures (under “Rites of Dionysus”).
It looks like the maenads are in the throes of bacchic debauchery. And I saw one very naughty pair of sculptures featuring a maenad cavorting with what appears to be a satyr, whose… well, let’s just say that it’s more prominent than in the Jamaican sculpture.
Can’t see any real close-up details, though–so, just how detailed are the maenads in person, Galanthus?
(I had no idea that horticulture could be so racy.)
