A sculpture recently commissioned may well make the southern Russian town of Bataysk into a major pilgrimage. The bas-relief sculpture, lying on a one-meter-high plinth in a park, near Rostov-on-Don, features a pair of breasts being fondled by a man's hand.
No ordinary sculpture, men are encouraged to interact and gain great advantages from doing so. A suggestive engraved message in verse will encourage men to touch the breasts themselves to "Improve their manly strength and stay young forever." I believe that is the G-rated version, and a loose translation.
The sculptor, Anatoly Sknarin saw a similar composition in Amsterdam on a paving slab in the red-light district, and utilized the concept in his home town, though the headless work resembles nothing so much as a woman with very large hands performing a self breast exam.
Apparently Russians take a much different view of sexuality and "naughtyness" than some conservative Americans.
I cannot help but remember when Ashcroft insisted that the American citizens spend $7,000 for a drape designed to cover the long exposed breast of the statue of Justice, lest
he be photographed in front of a - gasp - female breast, much less touching it!
Fondle a breast on new Russian park sculpture for virility
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