![]() ![]() ![]() The statue would have been polychromed, and was so lifelike that it even aroused men sexually, as witnessed by the tradition that a young man broke into the temple at night and attempted to copulate with the statue, leaving a stain on it. Nicomedes I of Bithynia offered to pay off the enormous debts of the city of Knidos in exchange for the statue, but the Knidians rejected his offer. The statue became a tourist attraction in spite of being a cult image, and a patron of the Knidians. Pliny claims that it brought fame to Knidos and coins issued there depicting the statue seem to confirm this. The city of Kos purchased the draped statue, because they felt the nude version was indecent and reflected poorly on their city, while the city of Knidos purchased the nude statue. According to an account by Pliny the Elder, Praxiteles sculpted both a nude and a draped statue of Aphrodite. A Roman copy, it is not thought to match the polished beauty of the original, which was destroyed in a disastrous fire at Constantinople in 475. The Aphrodite of Knidos established a canon for the proportions of the female nude, and inspired many copies, the best of which is considered to be the Colonna Knidia in the Vatican's Pio-Clementine Museum. Overwhelming evidence from aggregations suggests that the Knidian sculpture was meant to evoke male responses of sexuality upon viewing the statue, which were said to have been encouraged by the temple staff. When making the Aphrodite of Knidos, Spivey argues that her iconography can be attributed to Praxiteles creating the statue for the intent of being viewed by male onlookers. Previously nudity was a heroic uniform assigned only to men. The female nude appeared nearly three centuries after the earliest nude male counterparts in Greek sculpture, the kouros the female kore figures were clothed. Lucian said that she "wore a slight smile that just revealed her teeth", although most later copies do not preserve this. The statue is famed for its beauty, and is designed to be appreciated from every angle.īecause the various copies show different body shapes, poses and accessories, the original can only be described in general terms the body twisting in a contrapposto position, with the head probably turned to the left. The placement of her hands obscures her pubic area, while simultaneously drawing attention to her exposed upper body. It depicted the goddess Aphrodite as she prepared for the ritual bath that restored her purity, discarding her drapery with one hand, while modestly shielding herself with the other. What do you know, it turns out that I actually think we should act as if men are better than that.”Īnd then, just because some COMPLETE AND UTTER MORONS DIDN’T GET THE POINT, douchebag after douchebag messaged Ms Ford, asking her for nudes.The Aphrodite of Knidos was commissioned as the cult statue for the Temple of Aphrodite at Knidos. It means that I expect to live in a world where sexual predators, revenge pornographers and misogynists aren’t defended on morning television shows while their victims are demonised as having made a mistake. It means that I expect they’ll be kept private and treated as personal. That doesn’t make me a fool or ‘asking for trouble’ or somehow deserving of assault. “I have taken nude photos and I have chosen who gets to see them. She told the world without shame that she’s one of millions who have taken nude photographs: This is 2015 and there’s a high, high chance that you or someone you know has taken a nude photo, either for themselves, or to send to someone they trusted.Ĭlementine Ford accompanied the post with a Facebook-appropriate, semi-nude photo, with the message “Hey #Sunrise Get Fucked” scrawled on her chest. Publishing nude photos of people without their permission is a sex crime. It’s struck a nerve with people everywhere (I’m disinclined to say ‘women’ here), because she’s fucking right.īlaming women for taking nude photographs instead of the total fuck bois who share and publish them contributes to rape culture. The post went flat out viral – at the time of writing it’s gotten 19,807 shares. We are not allowed to be the masters of ourselves, only the gatekeepers.” “When will women learn? Learn what? That our bodies do not belong to us? That we have no right to determine who sees those bodies, touches those bodies, fucks those bodies, and shares in those bodies? Honey, we don’t need to learn that. Yesterday, feminist writer and self-proclaimed fright bat Clementine Ford wrote about the misogynist crap published by Sunrise over the nude photo hacking of Australian women, who accompanied the story with the phrase: “When will women learn?” ![]()
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