A gallery created quite a stir in western Poland after displaying a huge poster that features a Nazi swastika behind a 1940s-style pin-up version of Mickey Mouse to advertise an exhibition. The controversial piece, entitled “NaziSexyMouse”, created by Italian artist, Max Papschi, has city officials protesting that it ‘violates a law banning the display of Nazi symbols‘. City officials are not the only ones who dislike the piece. Vandals ripped a giant hole in the two-story high poster, which the gallery then replaced.

However, the public prosecutor’s spokeswoman stated that no legal action would be taken since the poster, “did not break the law.”A gallery curator commented that “we don’t have to remove it as it’s a work of art. If it were just a swastika, it would be propagating Nazi symbols. The law allows such symbols to be used in academic and artistic contexts. Regardless, I’ve never seen Mickey look sexier…

05.17.2010

It suddenly sucks slightly less to be blind since a new publisher just released a version of porn for the blind. The first-ever porn especially made for blind people features explicit braille and raised images of nude men and women. Author Lisa Murphy commented that although Playboy has an edition with braille lettering, no pictures are included. She stated that, “The blind have been left out in a culture saturated with sexual images.” But not anymore.

Selling at $225, Tactile Mind includes raised pictures such as a woman with perfect breasts, a man with an uncircumcised penis and a “satanic ram”. (Ok, they lost me with the ram.) Faces in the book are either masked or blocked out, but the bodies are highly detailed and realistic. To see more ‘feelies‘, click here.

04.29.2010

Residents of one lucky Williamsburg neighborhood have the pleasure of housing a tree whose trunk resembles a giant vagina.

Now the sexy Sycamore is even more distinctive in that it was just freshly pierced; right in the clit (well what would be the clit).

The artist prefers to remain anonymous, but the new adornment is obviously getting a lot of attention.

Who doesn’t love random acts of art in nature; especially one which emphasizes vaginas in any way?

The tree is situated at Bedford Ave. and North 12th St. on the outskirts of McCarren Park if you want to go check it out for yourself, or lick it, or whatever.

Residents are delighted since this will obviously bring up the value of property in the entire neighborhood.

placenty bearIt’s true that in some cultures, it is customary to eat the placenta after the birth in order to honor the act of childbirth and to resupply the new mother with nutrients. Other than that, most doctors simply dispose of the stuff, but one British designer wants to change that. He’s excited to announce that he’s has found a way to turn placenta into a lovable (yet absolutely vile) teddy bear.

The artist says it’s a “crafty alternative for those who don’t necessarily want to eat their baby’s placenta, but want to pay their respects to the life-sustaining organ by turning it into a one-of-a-kind teddy bear.”

In case you weren’t disgusted enough, the artist shared his process on how the teddy bear is made. First he cures the placenta with salt and then he softens it with some egg and tannins. Once soft, he sews it in to the shape of a teddy bear and then stuffs it with rice. And after all, who doesn’t love cuddling up with a sack of after-birth: the perfect gift for any psychopath this holiday season.

10.07.2009

penisartA man awoke after drinking an entire bottle of vodka to discover his leg newly tattooed with a six inch penis, complete with 4 testicles. (Only 6 inches?  What a gyp.) The 27 year old from Sweden stated that the last thing he remembers about the evening was leaving his apartment.

Friends helped fill in the blanks and reported that after hitting a nightspot, the group headed to a local hamburger joint, where the man slurred that he would like to get himself a drunken tattoo.  

Meanwhile, on the other side of the booth, a tattoo artist heard his wish and immediately expressed an interest in granting it, provided that he was given full creative control to express himself on the drunken man’s limb. Once sober, the man said he was initially worried what his mother would think, and that he “hadn’t bathed in public at all this summer”. (It would seem to me that the tattoo pales in comparison to public bathing, but whatevs.)

An artist’s gravestone design for one Germany’s most famous prostitutes (prostitutes can be famous? Oh right, Paris Hilton) has been rejected by cemetery authorities for being ‘too slutty’. The 77-year-old artist designed the gravestone as a parting gift to his now deceased friend, Domenica Niehoff.  The design featured two ample pink marble boulders in homage to her… breasts.

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However, authorities at the Garden of Women cemetery where Niehoff rests, (open only to Hamburg’s most famous women, she was the first prostitute buried there), turned down the design. Naturally the artist was pissed by the decision, insisting his dearly departed friend was not ashamed of herself and would have liked the design.

Niehoff, gained fame advocating rights for sex workers in the 70s and 80s. Originally from Cologne, she grew up in an orphanage and suffered through child prostitution. Later she developed substance abuse issues, though she repeatedly attempted to leave the sex trade. Unsuccessful, she married a brothel owner (not the best way to leave the sex trade), who committed suicide ten years later. Niehoff continued to work as a prostitute and began her own brothel before she began to push for the legalisation of prostitution in Germany in the 1980s. She then became a social worker to help women get off the streets. Domenica Niehoff died at 63.

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