Here I was thinking desecrating sacred space was a Medieval Thing!

[Tribesman]

In rubber masks?

That would be the temple of Vulcan.

But hey maybe they would if they had the method of working rubber back then,
Tell you what Wigferth , head off down to your local cathedral and see the art down there, yours ain't bad as it seemed to largely escape the worst of the ravages against degenrate symbolism you lot went through after that holy king had a bit of a problem with fidelity in marriage.

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

That would be the temple of Vulcan.

But hey maybe they would if they had the method of working rubber back then,
Tell you what Wigferth , head off down to your local cathedral and see the art down there, yours ain't bad as it seemed to largely escape the worst of the ravages against degenrate symbolism you lot went through after that holy king had a bit of a problem with fidelity in marriage.

I don't think we have any nudes, actually. Nor do I think that Church art was generally designed to tittlilate, and none of this has anything to do with the CofE.

[Tribesman]

none of this has anything to do with the CofE.

So it wasn't the CofE who whitewashed over the paintings and defaced the carvings?

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

So it wasn't the CofE who whitewashed over the paintings and defaced the carvings?

Actually, most of the damage here was done by the Puritans during Cromwell's era. In fact, a lot of the most serious stuff, particularly the defacing the statutry was Cromwellian.

Anyway, the CofE really dates from the reign of Elizabeth II, so the answer would be "no, not really".

In any case, it has nothing to do with the current Church, or the Church 300 years ago.

[Tribesman]

Actually, most of the damage here was done by the Puritans during Cromwell's era

So that puts paid to the topic title as the British medieval period is generally defined as ending with Bosworth

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

So that puts paid to the topic title as the British medieval period is generally defined as ending with Bosworth

I was thinking rather more of the Medieval penchant for changing money, selling raw meat, and having sex on alters. People did those things, it seems to have been virtually pathological.

[a completely inoffensive name]

I would like PVC to show me the pics before I make a judgment. But already I don't see the issue in taking pictures of nature's most beautiful work of art (the female body) with some of mankind's most beautiful art.

[Aemilius Paulus]

I would like PVC to show me the pics before I make a judgment.

Lol, just tell him you want some porn and stop making silly excuses


But what PVC mentioned did not sound like art to me, but as I said earlier, an excuse for porn. The photographer stuck the "art" label only because if he bluntly stated "we wanna make some porn in a church", it would be greatly offensive. But why of all the places in the world a church??


EDIT: another article said the pictures were for S&M fetish. I wiki-ed it and it gave no articles. What is S&M?

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

Lol, just tell him you want some porn and stop making silly excuses


But what PVC mentioned did not sound like art to me, but as I said earlier, an excuse for porn. The photographer stuck the "art" label only because if he bluntly stated "we wanna make some porn in a church", it would be greatly offensive. But why of all the places in the world a church??


EDIT: another article said the pictures were for S&M fetish. I wiki-ed it and it gave no articles. What is S&M?

I wouldn't quite say it was S&M, what I will say is that the website has an 18+ front page. If you want to see the pics do what I did, take the guy's name off the BBC article and google him. I am quite certain the pictures are not Org-safe, even for the Babe Thread (well, you could get away with a couple of them in there).

S&M is whips and bondage, Sadomachoism.