# Venus figurines - Erotic Art?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venus-figurines-erotic-art/626664>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 29, 2012, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venus-figurines-erotic-art/626664 "2012-06-29T05:17:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![mister\_nyx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@mister\_nyx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mister_nyx)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venus-figurines-erotic-art/626664/21 "2012-07-01T21:04:35Z")

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> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> I must confess, your logic escaes me. So you think people think that everything is porn? I do not wish to subscribe to your newsletter. And if you think that you’ve heard it a thousand times before (I haven’t), I don’t ant to subscribe to the ones you’ve been reading.

Almost all artists today are, like these cave-dwellers of yore, getting neither big bucks nor tenure for what they do. You argued that that was a good reason to suspect that these Venus figurines were essentially porn; it seems to me that that logic would dictate that the same reasoning would be applicable to most art today.

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venus-figurines-erotic-art/626664/22 "2012-07-02T12:11:35Z")

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> [@mister\_nyx](#):
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> Almost all artists today are, like these cave-dwellers of yore, getting neither big bucks nor tenure for what they do. You argued that that was a good reason to suspect that these Venus figurines were essentially porn; it seems to me that that logic would dictate that the same reasoning would be applicable to most art today.

There IS plenty of erotic art today – both for private reasons (the artists like making it) and because they get commissions for it. I know artists that have done both.

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**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venus-figurines-erotic-art/626664/23 "2012-07-02T14:53:46Z")

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I think the fact that the Venus figurines can fit comfortably into one hand is highly suggestive.

The other hand being left free for…other activities.

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