Around 100 prehistoric 'cult sites,' containing phallic carvings have been found in the Eilat Mountains in the Negev Desert in Israel.
The sites date back around 8,000 years, and archaeologists were stunned to find a variety of stone structures and artifacts.
They include stone circles that measure 1.5 to 2.5 meters across with penis-shaped installations pointing toward them.
'While a comprehensive stylistic study of the stone objects is still ongoing, a preliminary interpretation suggests two symbolic aspects,' the team, led by Uzi Avner, a researcher with the Arava-Dead Sea Science Center and the Arava Institute, wrote.
'One is fertility, represented by the stones with elongated perforation (vulva-shape) and by the very combination of the elongated cell and the circle.'
Death is 'signified by the burial of stone objects and by setting them upside down,' the team members wrote in their paper. In one, a humanlike stone carving was found buried with 'only the very top visible on the surface.'
Other findings there include standing stones that reach up to 2.6 feet (80 centimeters) high, stone bowls and stone carvings that have a humanlike shape.
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Wulan Mei Lina: porno of erotic art
Pameran seni foto erotik sudah biasa di Belanda. Tapi kalau pembuat dan modelnya orang Indonesia, itu unik!
Terlebih, di tanah air sang fotografer-Indonesia-, berlaku undang-undang pornografi yang menghukum maksimal 12 tahun penjara bagi siapa saja terlibat pembuatan foto telanjang atau mengesankan ketelanjangan.
Tapi seni foto erotik bukan pornografi! tukas Marcello, pemilik galeri Haags, di Den Haag, Belanda. Pornografi memperlihatkan gambar-gambar intim, organ kemaluan atau persenggamaan secara jelas. Sedangkan seni foto erotik tidak sama sekali.
Erotisme sudah ada sepanjang sejarah manusia. Dari zaman Mesir, lalu Yunani, di Barat erotisme komponen penting karya seni, kata Walter, manajer sang seniman.
Tak kalah penting, pesan dari foto-foto itu sendiri. Wulan Mei Lina ingin perempuan-perempuan di Indonesia bisa diperlakukan seperti di Barat. Punya hak sama, diperlakukan adil dan berhak menentukan apa yang terbaik bagi dirinya sendiri.
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