Von Hagens saws up sex corpses
Showman pathologist Dr. Gunther von Hagens has taken an unusual step to get round local decency laws - he's sawn up the stripped down bodies of a couple having sex, after a court banned him from putting the exhibits on display.
Von Hagens now plans to put just the most intimate body parts on show to get round the decency ban.
Critics say the beheading shows he doesn't care about the dignity of the volunteers who agree to be exhibited after death, and is just chasing more publicity.
The controversial anatomist and fedora-enthusiast saw his 'plastinated' exhibit of lovers - preserved by injecting medical plastic into their bodies - banned by town hall officials in Augsburg, Germany, for breaching public decency laws.
Both bodies were said by Body Worlds director von Hagens to be lung cancer patients, who volunteered their bodies to him before they died.
Now von Hagens plans to exhibit just the business section of the amorous corpses, still locked in the height of passion.
He commented: 'It was the expressions on the faces that the court objected to - so I have removed that problem.'"
How remarkably... efficient.... I love Germany and Germans, and realize occupying most of the center of a continent means they're going to have a disproportionately high population with a disproportionately high number of whack jobs; we certainly get our share mixed into our 300 million souls. Still, it's hard to read stuff like this (courtesy of a search for The Man with the Hat from xkcd) and not nod to myself a bit when I see the German dateline. I mean, I can't really say it makes the world "normal" again, but maybe a little less abnormal.
Showman pathologist Dr. Gunther von Hagens has taken an unusual step to get round local decency laws - he's sawn up the stripped down bodies of a couple having sex, after a court banned him from putting the exhibits on display.
Von Hagens now plans to put just the most intimate body parts on show to get round the decency ban.
Critics say the beheading shows he doesn't care about the dignity of the volunteers who agree to be exhibited after death, and is just chasing more publicity.
The controversial anatomist and fedora-enthusiast saw his 'plastinated' exhibit of lovers - preserved by injecting medical plastic into their bodies - banned by town hall officials in Augsburg, Germany, for breaching public decency laws.
Both bodies were said by Body Worlds director von Hagens to be lung cancer patients, who volunteered their bodies to him before they died.
Now von Hagens plans to exhibit just the business section of the amorous corpses, still locked in the height of passion.
He commented: 'It was the expressions on the faces that the court objected to - so I have removed that problem.'"
How remarkably... efficient.... I love Germany and Germans, and realize occupying most of the center of a continent means they're going to have a disproportionately high population with a disproportionately high number of whack jobs; we certainly get our share mixed into our 300 million souls. Still, it's hard to read stuff like this (courtesy of a search for The Man with the Hat from xkcd) and not nod to myself a bit when I see the German dateline. I mean, I can't really say it makes the world "normal" again, but maybe a little less abnormal.
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https://www.youtube.com/user/Paigeofmaces
“Brave Hobo, defend me as I flee!”
I have the face of a philosopher-king
Do I NEED to Tell You Which Country Gave Us "Screwing Corpses" As Art?
16/09/2010 11:31:39 PM
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Disgusting at many levels
16/09/2010 11:47:40 PM
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"Reasonable" and "art" don't always mesh well.
17/09/2010 12:11:42 AM
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I have a feeling that injecting when they were alive would be illegal *NM*
17/09/2010 12:20:24 AM
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That makes sense, but I guess there are no non-creepy outcomes here.
17/09/2010 12:30:59 AM
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I agree there should be some limits to art like there is everything else
17/09/2010 12:22:52 PM
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I'm sure this article will be posted on the German forum I visit
16/09/2010 11:50:38 PM
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Some of that may have been me...
16/09/2010 11:59:50 PM
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17/09/2010 06:08:43 AM
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*cheers*
17/09/2010 06:05:18 PM
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What, you two started posting together, now? Or just loan your accounts to each other? *NM*
18/09/2010 11:11:35 AM
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The fact that those were people is something I can't really get my head around, thanks be to God.
17/09/2010 12:57:02 AM
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Never mind this post. The organization in question is a competitor of this man. *NM*
17/09/2010 01:01:49 AM
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The thought of this in the context of bodily resurrection made me giggle, though.
17/09/2010 01:38:18 AM
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Hey, if you could (and MUST) only do ONE thing for eternity, what would it be...?
17/09/2010 01:41:52 AM
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