A present to La Crosse, WI from its French sister city was scheduled for a fig leaf, and then reprieved:
http://www.lacrossetribune.com/artic...z00council.txt
Several comments on the site indicate that a female nude statue has been in front of the La Crosse library for years without complaint.
The paper says of the man picked to make the bronze figleaf, "Petersen said he understood the rationale to have the groin covered because of so much talk today of child pornography."
Since the statue is based on a Greek original, the model - the "victim" of the "child pornography" - is some three thousand years dead. Perhaps in his case it may be slightly too late to "protect the children."
- Caipora
http://www.lacrossetribune.com/artic...z00council.txt
Several comments on the site indicate that a female nude statue has been in front of the La Crosse library for years without complaint.
The paper says of the man picked to make the bronze figleaf, "Petersen said he understood the rationale to have the groin covered because of so much talk today of child pornography."
Since the statue is based on a Greek original, the model - the "victim" of the "child pornography" - is some three thousand years dead. Perhaps in his case it may be slightly too late to "protect the children."
- Caipora
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