Body Worlds plans cadaver show dedicated to sex
source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090911/od_nm/us_finearts_bodyworlds
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Gunther von Hagens and his wife Angelina Whalley show corpses prepared using a technique invented by von Hagens called "plastination," that removes water from specimens and preserves them with silicon rubber or epoxy resin.
"It's not my intention to show certain sexual poses. My goal is really to show the anatomy and the function," Body Worlds creative director Whalley told Reuters in an interview, adding the sex exhibition may open next year.
Body Worlds exhibitions, visited by 27 million people across the world, have been criticized for presenting entire corpses, stripped of skin to reveal the muscles and organs underneath, in lifelike and often theatrical positions.
Von Hagens has already triggered uproar with a new exhibit which shows just two copulating corpses.
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horseeyes
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I find those bodyworlds shows really interesting, even if they take a while to get used to haha. I don't know if i'd want to see cadavers simulate sex... but I actually learned a lot about anatomy from watching him do his thing
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horseeyes
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frizzlecat
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Agree to disagree, asherp, instead of going out of your way to repy to everyone's comment about how wrong they are.
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frizzlecat
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Fearzen
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Hmm... interersting I think. It really depends on your beliefs of how the dead should be treated, even if the bodies have been donated to science.
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Fearzen
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asherp
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Fearzen:
The bodies haven't been donated to science. Most of them were purchased on the black market.
Do some research.
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asherp
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frizzlecat
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This "shit" is what science is all about. Pushing limits, breaking conventions, creating new perspectives. I see no reason to be disgusted by this.
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frizzlecat
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asherp
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frizzlecat:
You have no fucking clue what science is about.
Could you please tell me where this falls under the scientific method?
I'm sorry, what's scientific about taking the cadavers of Chinese political prisoners who were executed for their political beliefs, and making them have sex?
What is to be learned from that? What greater knowlege is being gained?
I"m sorry but you're totally full of it. Go soak your head.
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asherp
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rubycon40
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this nutcase has done a lot for the science of anatomy and i find his work and exhibitions very informative and educational ,,,but i think this might be a step to far ,,,without someone pushing the limits we would still be in the dark ages,,,????????????
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rubycon40
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asherp
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rubycon40:
Pushing the limits?
There is no pushing the limits of knowledge here, only pushing the limits of decency.
No greater knowledge is being gained from this disgusting display than was gained from the freak shows of the 1800s.
This is not intellectual progress, it's exploiting morbid curiosity for profit.
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asherp
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couldntfindausername
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rubycon40:
"There is no pushing the limits of knowledge here"
Having seen some of the gormless idiots who know next to nothing about their own bodies walking round this sort of exhibit, I have to disagree.
The general level of ignorance surrounding the most basic aspects of anatomy can only be described as dangerous. Von Hagens [and several other groups doing similar work] bring anatomy to life for a wider audience.
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couldntfindausername
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asherp
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Now the defiled bodies of political prisoners are... even further defiled!
Come! Pay money to see real dead prisoners from China!
This shit disgusts me. The fact that people want to go see it further disgusts me.
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asherp
