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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.
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Do I NEED to Tell You Which Country Gave Us "Screwing Corpses" As Art? - 16/09/2010 11:31:39 PM 829 Views
ewwww. *NM* - 16/09/2010 11:39:34 PM 153 Views
Agreed. - 17/09/2010 12:12:21 AM 416 Views
Disgusting at many levels - 16/09/2010 11:47:40 PM 349 Views
Yup. *NM* - 16/09/2010 11:52:58 PM 132 Views
"Reasonable" and "art" don't always mesh well. - 17/09/2010 12:11:42 AM 349 Views
I have a feeling that injecting when they were alive would be illegal *NM* - 17/09/2010 12:20:24 AM 161 Views
That makes sense, but I guess there are no non-creepy outcomes here. - 17/09/2010 12:30:59 AM 385 Views
as a he's a pathologist, he's no doubt dealt with worse. *NM* - 17/09/2010 12:50:54 AM 168 Views
Yes, but probably not just for the sake of simulated coitus. - 17/09/2010 01:00:31 AM 420 Views
I don't give art a grand pass on all things - 17/09/2010 01:06:01 AM 382 Views
Probably best. - 17/09/2010 01:19:33 AM 444 Views
The plastination is done after death. *NM* - 17/09/2010 06:34:06 AM 379 Views
I agree there should be some limits to art like there is everything else - 17/09/2010 12:22:52 PM 362 Views
I'm sure this article will be posted on the German forum I visit - 16/09/2010 11:50:38 PM 421 Views
Some of that may have been me... - 16/09/2010 11:59:50 PM 504 Views
- 17/09/2010 06:08:43 AM 459 Views
<3 - 17/09/2010 06:05:15 PM 357 Views
*cheers* - 17/09/2010 06:05:18 PM 342 Views
Curious What is the forum about? *NM* - 18/09/2010 12:23:33 PM 235 Views
Cannibalism and Scheiße porn. *NM* - 18/09/2010 06:19:50 PM 189 Views
I almost had a part in this - 17/09/2010 07:30:20 AM 369 Views
Von Hagens is a nutter *NM* - 18/09/2010 12:23:01 PM 199 Views

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