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Erotic helplessness : a study of the history of the Damsel in Distress theme in art

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coldturkey said:
I am sorry if my approach was misunderstood. I was not trying to taunt anyone, simply acknowledging that I had taken note of @Barbaria1's instruction and had removed the offending child. Perhaps the word self-censored was unfortunate, but I did not mean it as an attack. I apologize for my lack of tact. As for the black rectangle, I am not a PC nerd and do not actually know any other way to remove or crop a part of an image than doing so simply on Paint. I did not know who had removed the photo, and so turned to Barbaria1 as I assumed it was him given his previous remark. As for why I tagged the moderators as a group, it was not to draw people into an argument but to have a unified response to the simple question of whether I can post paintings with the crude and simple black-out of minors or must refrain from such paintings altogether...
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Personally, and as a moderator, I don't find anything offensive in your response (not even the fact that you didn't include me! ;) ), and I'm perfectly happy for you to continue posting images of the kind you've been contributing, so long as they don't include children. Using the 'search forums' facility, entering the artists' names, or picture titles, you could check whether they've been posted here before - certainly a good many have.

One which is familiar here is the Millais painting you've used for your avatar - you're probably aware that he over-painted an earlier version of the same image to produce 'The Martyr of the Solway' (a Covenanter girl tied to a post in Wigtown Bay to be drowned by the rising tide - my local martyr!):

https://www.cruxforums.com/xf/threads/ancient-martyrs.8020/post-521895
 
Eulalia said:
More interesting than that- Phryne was a very celebrated hetaira, courtesan, up-market whore, and very wealthy too.
She was put on trial for some alleged misdemeanour - sacrilege or something of the sort - hired a dodgy lawyer, who, in the courtroom pulled off (literally) a dramatic demonstration that her body was so beautiful it could only have been sculpted by the gods, and to harm, never mind destroy, it would itself be a grave act of sacrilege.
So she's seen -at least by some - as a proto-feminist, using her bare body to shame the 'male gaze', not herself.
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Thank you for the kind words about her 'dodgy lawyer'. Tree is sure he would have said the same glorious words about your (well-exposed) body!
montycrusto said:
Perhaps @thehangingtree could try that, next time he’s “defending” @Barbaria1 in court!
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Was that remark really necessary?!?!
 
Thanks for the tip on photo editing, @Loxuru, and your kind words, @Eulalia... I will see if there is a discreet way to remove minors in the future, but will refrain altogether from such postings in the present... I apologize if my insistence in this matter has disturbed the peace of the forum... And in particular to you both, @melissa and @Barbaria1. I know that you do a lot for the forum, and do not want to take your painstaking work for granted...
Responding to your post on the Solway martyr, @Eulalia, I thought I might add this work of a Nigerian virgin offered up to Juju and the mercies of the tide...
 

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ducon007 said:
Allow me to modify dear Lewis a little!
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Lewis Carroll’s version was already a parody, of Against Idleness and Mischief (“How doth the little honey-bee…”) by Isaac Watts. But that doesn’t need to stop me doing a parody of Carroll’s parody..

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How doth the little crocodile
Ignore a helpless feast,
A virgin tethered to a pile,
Of eighteen years at least ?

“Alas, that such a tasty piece
Of ass should be devoured!
Methinks, before her life should cease,
The maid should be deflowered!”

And so, the lusty crocodile
Approached with gleaming eye,
And fucked the maiden doggy style
Until her end was nigh.

“Oh sir,” she sighed, “‘tis strange, I feel
Sensations ‘twixt my thighs,
Come make me your delicious meal,
Devour your helpless prize!”

The little crocodile required
No further urging on,
And soon the maid he’d so admired,
Was quite completely gone.
:croc:
 
Hypatia of Alexandria, 4th-5th century female philosopher. Victim of religious intolerance. She is said to have been massacred with shards of pottery or oyster shells.
#1 by Charles William Mitchell
#4 by William Mortensen
Unknown artists for #2 and 3


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montycrusto said:
Lewis Carroll’s version was already a parody, of Against Idleness and Mischief (“How doth the little honey-bee…”) by Isaac Watts. But that doesn’t need to stop me doing a parody of Carroll’s parody..

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How doth the little crocodile
Ignore a helpless feast,
A virgin tethered to a pile,
Of eighteen years at least ?

“Alas, that such a tasty piece
Of ass should be devoured!
Methinks, before her life should cease,
The maid should be deflowered!”

And so, the lusty crocodile
Approached with gleaming eye,
And fucked the maiden doggy style
Until her end was nigh.

“Oh sir,” she sighed, “‘tis strange, I feel
Sensations ‘twixt my thighs,
Come make me your delicious meal,
Devour your helpless prize!”

The little crocodile required
No further urging on,
And soon the maid he’d so admired,
Was quite completely gone.
:croc:
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Hats off , Mr Monty Caroll !
 

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