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Okuizumo Government via AFP - Getty Images, file
A replica of Michelangelo's Renaissance masterpiece sculpture David at a public park in Okuizumo, Shimane prefecture, western Japan, in a photo taken by a local official on Aug. 28, 2012.
Agence France-Presse reports — A replica of Michelangelo's Renaissance sculpture David that was erected suddenly last summer is unnerving residents of a Japanese town, with some calling for the naked masterpiece to be given underwear.
The 16 foot tall marble statue was donated by a businessman who hails from the area around Okuizumo.
"It is the first time we have had anything like this in our town. Perhaps people were perplexed," town official Yoji Morinaga said.
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I think Fruit of the Loom or Hanes is behind this.
The stone penis will not hurt you
They have traditional communal baths for Crissakes!
However, copies of famous statues are always tacky. Why didn't he commission a new work of art?
This is progress. The next thing you know they will be banning books in the public library and voting Republican. Maybe Glenn Beck should consider emigrating, there's a whole new audience just waiting.
What's progress is that you've added another country to your whining. It's not just about the US anymore.
Just take a mallet to the cockandballs. though i dont know why they are ashamed of their cockandballs. everybody has cockandballs. just get rid of the cockandballs.
Or maybe the men were simply intimidated by the size of his profile and did not want the women in the village to start dreaming of a new normal?
there just jealous that his is bigger....
C'mon, David would NEVER wear tighty-whities! Commando or thong, baby. He's PROUD of those buns!
Wasn't this an episode of the Simpson's?
Something like that belongs indoors. Or some rich guy's back yard. Not a park.
HA!!! Intimidated??
My thoughts exactly.
Must be comparing sizes of their nether parts and finding them lacking.
Truly startling that as I read the comments:
Not one Simpsons reference!!!!
I did.
Sounds like an earlier episode of The Simpsons where Helen Lovejoy is protesting Michelangelo's David
Aren't the Japanese the ones with the public bath houses and families that take baths together?
This is odd behavior for a country that has sex museums & statues depicting giant phallic symbols.
There is even an annual Japanese festival KANAMARA MATSURI (Festival of the Steel Phallus)
unfortunately "all items DO NOT appear larger in the mirror"
If you don't like it then you gotta put a leaf on it,
If you don't like it then you gotta put a leaf on it,
uh-uh-oh uh uh uhn uh uh unh uh uh uhn......
There was a Simpsons episode from the first or 2nd season that dealt with censorship and Michelangelo's David.
They're mad because the Japanese women finally found out they've been lied to for hundreds of years that an inch long is normal.
If the people in the town were 'perplexed' by David, apparently they had never seen him before. If they haven't seen him, the odds are they haven't seen much Western sculpture. Why pick this place, therefore, to put such a piece?
It is Japan. If it was a nude Sailor Moon, a Cat Girl statue, or a Japanese school girl then it would be OK. I would like the statue in my front lawn because I have a Southern Baptist Church down the street from me!
An International Piece of Art - and all they can think of is covering the exposed genetalia?
Porn or no Porn, is not the question - the question is respect for the human body. It is what it is, when it is not taken care of it is not beautiful to behold - but when it is - the human body - regardless of race, is a truely beautiful piece of art - the rendition is as it should be. Hiding the human body is why we were cast out of Eden to start with - OVER THINKING WHAT NEEDS NO THOUGHT!
This issue reminds me of the school book crones who think Twain should be edited for the kiddies. Or thrown out altogether. Of course, they could barely write a sentence themselves. They are the slayers of art and critical thinking.
Tell em to stop feeding him Viagra!
Don't families in Japan still take communal (public) baths?
Poor David, always getting the "short end of the stick" or is that "a short stick"? Just don't know any more.
Someone better warn the Japanese people not to go on the Internet. There are nekkid people on there. Really.