This sheela-na-gig at Oaksey inward Wiltshire boasts "pendulous breasts" as well as a vulva
"extended well-nigh to her ankles"
"extended well-nigh to her ankles"
For hundreds of years carvings of naked women accept sat provocatively on churches across Britain. But who created them - as well as why?
Look at these, my child-bearing hips
Look at these, my ruby reddish ruby lips...
Sheela-na-gig, Sheela-na-gig
You exhibitionist
The yr is 1992 as well as the singer-songwriter PJ Harvey is performing Sheela-Na-Gig, the most successful unmarried from her critically acclaimed album Dry.
But unless you're a fan of slowly 20th Century indie music, or an goodness inward Norman church building architecture, there's every guide chances you've non been exposed to the sheela-na-gig - or accept sauntered past times i without fifty-fifty realising it.
Hidden inward evidently sight, these sculptures of squatting women pulling dorsum the lips of their vaginas accept for nearly a millennium aroused feelings of intrigue, shame as well as fifty-fifty anger.
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