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car · 2023-02-09 · Original thread
Too bad the art isn't very much on display in this article.

A great book on the topic is 'Eros in Pompeii', which depicts the Erotic Art collection of the Naples Museum [0]. In it is a picture of a statue named 'stupidus', after a character played in mimes. It totally cracked me up, since it immediately reminded me of the aptly named 'shirt cocker', a character encountered at clothing optional Burning Man.

The linked Wikipedia article [1] and especially masters thesis have really good information as well [2].

[0] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Eros-Pompeii-Erotic-Collection-Muse...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic_art_in_Pompeii_and_Herc...

[2] https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/41621/Lundgren...

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