The Spanking Sculpture Mystery

Last week I met up with my vanilla friend from school, and she showed me some pictures on her phone. She had recently been to an art exhibition, and was showing me some of the pieces she liked.

Quite a lot of these were nudes. My friend was clicking through and providing commentary: “Look, she’s doing ballet. I like these kissing ones, as well. And then there’s this…”

The photo was of a small sculpture portraying a naked woman stretched over a man’s knee. The man had his hand raised above his head, preparing to strike the woman’s behind with some sort of implement. A helpful sign under the sculpture informed us that it was called “Punishment.”

“Uh,” I said. “Uhm… What is he holding?” It just couldn’t be what I thought it was, surely. “It’s not a knife, is it?”

“Oh, no,” said my friend cheerfully. “I think it’s a paddle.” And she clicked over to the next sculpture, much more mundane.

I continued to smile and nod looking at the photos, but all I could do was trying to think of a way to get my friend to forward me the photo – without weirding her out.

I never came up with anything. So I don’t have a photo to show you. But I hope it amuses you that a sculptor out there got away with exhibiting a spanking statue.

Comments

6 Responses to “The Spanking Sculpture Mystery”

  1. Karl Friedrich Gauss on March 4th, 2010 7:51 pm

    As Andy Warhol said “Art is whatever you can get away with.”

  2. Adele on March 4th, 2010 7:52 pm

    ROTFL I haven’t heard that one. Good point.

  3. phoenix on March 4th, 2010 9:55 pm

    you should probably just ask her to forward you a zip or rar archive or something of all the pictures from the museum, then she won’t know which one you’re really after ;)

    #phoenix

  4. Taryn on March 5th, 2010 2:01 am

    It’s been a while. Tell her you think you saw it online and want to know if its the same one. If she doesn’t know of your interest then she won’t suspect a thing!

  5. krampus on March 6th, 2010 11:08 pm

    How vanilla is vanilla? If spanking isn’t hot for her she nay simply think that spanking, like nudity, is part of life’s rich tapestry and nothing to be excited or embarrassed about. Just one of those things that people do. You could prpbably have said “Oh, yes, that one’s rather hilarious” and got away with it.

    But reverting now to your shared experience of looking at her pictures — you’ll always wonder whether it’s made her wonder about you.

    But then, on the other hand — would it be so terrible if she did?

  6. krampus on March 6th, 2010 11:12 pm

    The photograph of the girl on the leather mattress is pretty hilarious, come to think of it.

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