The prudishness of society is progressing 😔
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It's truly sad considering how much work was done in the 60s and 70s to break through the boorish puritanical sexual repression which has infected western since the end of the roman empire.
Sexual liberation became commodities as a consumer good in the 1980s.
In the 80s my father was a Mormon missionary in Sweden. He always talks about the day he walked through a park and saw a woman sunbathing topless. Rest assured he had dreams of all temperatures that night.
Regressing?
As we know no actual women have large breasts and the ones who do are inherently pornographic /s
I hate the world and I hope society collapses soon
Women are not allowed to be large breasted.
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Depends where in Europe you are. Netherlands has a gnome holding a buttplug.
In Dangast, Germany, we have this little fella:
What’s the name of that glans?
In Oslo we have a really nice red one.
Blood for the blood god I guess....
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And don't forget Manneken Pis:
Those statues inspired a waffle company in Japan with the same name and they are the most delicious things I've ever had the pleasure of eating.
Buttplug gnome in Rotterdam is hilarious.
A red version was unveiled in May 2018 in Oslo, Norway. The unveiling was performed by a man, suspended by an overhead crane with hooks through his skin, who pulled off the cover.
What the fuck?
I know, right? A red version is just weird
I wanted to know what it actually was and was not disappointed by the artist’s explanation
It's basically the message of A Charlie Brown Christmas.
Hey now, that's a canonical Christmas tree he's holding!
Is he implying the viewer has a choice between the plug or him?
I'm looking at this from a strictly evolutionary standpoint - wouldn't large breasts make swimming more difficult?
Makes it easier to attract sailors though. You don't need to move fast if food just comes towards you.
Fat is less dense than water, so while it would hinder swimming it would also benefit floating for longer periods of time with less effort.
If we assume Mermaids are indeed air-breathing amphibians this would provide an evolutionary advantage inline with most ambush predators. Their mythology encourages that characterization well — i.e. they wait for passing ships and lure sailors into the water or encourage fishermen to 'catch' them before eating them. One would imagine like a snake or lizard or indeed like many predators of the ocean the goal would then be to preserve calories as much as possible. Therefore floating at or near the surface for easy breathing, heat management, and to encourage their chosen prey to spot them so they can start their ambush is better than being able to swim quickly.
Definitely.
Source; otters ain't got titties and neither do platypus. They have nipples but not titties.
Which is the definition of a mermaid tbh
They should stay hydrodynamic /s
All over. It's traditional.
Hey now.
I'm sure it's also some women's fantasy, too.
Then give her smaller breasts and move on with your day
the one with smaller breasts is already there...
The Big Mermaid statue stands at 13ft tall and was originally unveiled in Copenhagen in 2006. It was placed just yards from the iconic Little Mermaid statue.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/denmark-mermaid-statue-remove-ugly-5Hjd8QC_2/
Spoken like a true cishet male. Ashamed of your own reaction, men? Remove her breasts! Next!
/s
How does a tabloid headline count as a meme?
This lemmy is a one man show, I try to fill it with something entertaining 😬😬
good job (no sarcasm). it is hard to do it as a one man show.
In this era? What isn't a tabloid? 🤢
In northern Europe they're called hot dreams. In warmer/drier climates we call them wet dreams. In Russia they fantasize about warm water ports.
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Fashion for neoclassical statues happened when industry was developing and the 1% wanted to show its wealth. So yes.
Sample from a major park in Paris: https://paris1900.lartnouveau.com/paris01/tuileries/statues_pierre.htm
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