I Have a Pornographic Mind
I read something somewhere once that it’s what our minds bring to an image that creates pornography.
Etching on door in Balboa Park
What do you think?
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Exactly. And I didn't even mention the physical positioning of the bodies, where the child's head is located relative to the priest's anatomy, which is itself unfortunately suggestive of a pornographic concept, given the apparent age of the kneeling partner. No. I didn't have to even mention that. Is it really OUR sick minds, or the artist's, or the patron who commissioned the work? I imagine him giggling while wringing his hands, laughing at how many pious citizens will see it, do a double-take, and then quizzically explain the concept of "art" to their curious children while covering their eyes and shuffling them along into the bathroom, or back to the coffee cart at the plaza's entrance. Hee hee.
Ahhhh, lunch at the Prado, being welcomed by an image that calls to mind our very recent shared experience of the ubiquitous pedophile priests. While I do believe we bring our own interpretations that make it pornography, you have to admit that the Catholic Church has done its level best for centuries to earn that particularly unfortunate interpretation of this engraving from just about anyone who passes under those adobe arches into that little plaza. And the fact that the artist apparently forgot to etch clothing onto the little child, but the priest appears fully robed. Ewwww. Happy New Year!!!
LOL! Glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks that :-) An example of “great minds think alike”?
haha! great find! totally pornographic. i mean, come on, you'd have to be pretty in the dark/asexual to not see the porno in this.
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I make a point to stop by that door whenever I'm with someone at Balboa Park just to see the reactions!
Yeah, you 'n' me both!