Re: zoosexual cave art?
Stephen Wray (stevew@debretts.comp.vuw.ac.nz)
07 May 1995 11:02:44 GMT
> > The archaelogists I know could *never* keep something that odd to
> > themselves. Just the words "pornographic cave art" are too funny
> > not to say.
>
> The whole idea that anthropologists would suppress taht acts of bestiality
> were portrayed frequently in cave art seems to be the final application of
> a Freudian point of view as applied to the "big picture."
I dunno... I just have this feeling that academics making any kind of noise
about such things could find themselves censured.
Has anything like this ever happened?
Did any academic ever openly discuss (what seem to be) widely regarded as
highly abberant sexual behavior and get into trouble over it?
Heck -- academics got into trouble over LSD of all things. Nowadays any
academic discussion of (god forbid) beneficial aspects of LSD research
(except for military applications, of course) seems to bring trouble.
Bestiality might be in an even worse basket...
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