| abstract
| - Following the Christian conquest of the Roman Empire, many followers of Christianity revolted against the sex toys of Rome. One of the many practices which they forbade was the creation of statues that depicted nudity due to the high rates of sex with statues. Until the end of the Middle Ages nearly a millennium later, the rape of statues was virtually non-existent. During the Renaissance, a rebirth of Classical art led to the creation of new paintings and sculptures. At the same time, many people began secretly having intercourse with various works of art, usually without consent. One famous statue which has been reportedly raped was Michelangelo's David. The statue's famous depiction of male genitalia led to many people, mostly women and gay men, having sexual fantasies about his rock-hard features. For some people, merely fantasizing about the statue was not enough, leading to the statue's repeated rape. As a result, the statue had to be guarded constantly by the popes brigade to keep David from being raped. In modern times, largely due to relaxed attitudes towards sex, combined with the advent of the internet, people having sex with inanimate objects is becoming more commonplace. Sex with statues is no exception, although most people who practice it do so in secret due to statue rights activists' outcries against non-consensual contact with sculptures. Some statues unfortunately cannot talk, thus can't really try to stop the horrendous act themselves, such as George W. Bush.
|