"The Romans would see the god goat having sex with a goat, so it wouldn't have troubled them at all"An erotic statue has caused the British Museum to install a "parental guidance" warning in their new exhibition, Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum.
The sculpture is of the mythical half-goat, half-man Pan having sex with a nanny goat. The Times reports that the museum is determined to display the object in plain sight, rather than hidden behind a curtain or in a "museum secretum" – a restricted area for those aged over 14 in the Naples Museum.
Paul Roberts, senior curator, said the statue may be unconventional today, but would not have raised eyebrows in Roman Pompeii: "The Romans would see the god goat having sex with a goat, so it wouldn't have troubled them at all.
Roberts says high-brow Roman owners would have been amused by the statue: "It’s because the owners are cultured that they have the sculpture of Pan and the goat. They also have a sense of humour, because to a Roman that would have been humorous, not offensive."
He added that phallic symbols were commonplace in Roman homes. Images of the well-endowed fertility god Priapus, sometimes weighing his appendage against a quantity of gold, were often found at the entrance to houses as a symbol of success and good luck.
Of course not its flipping the bird at the greeks!!! Hell hilareous even to half wit rich moron inbred idiots.
I love the fact the place got pancaked! My god losers. Man they are dumb. They dont even understand archetype! Oh wait neither do we sorry.