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Blocking out the uncomfortable bits
Art *v.* censorship: where is the line? Something about blocking off Renaissance naughty parts just doesn't feel right, yet there's clearly a time when the line becomes blurry and the sacrilegious is not just *acc*epted but *ex*pected.

![https://diasp.org/camo/13d4409e02503fc60d5203551d110f3d02bce8cd/68747470733a2f2f36362e6d656469612e74756d626c722e636f6d2f39303435313765336532666138386136313466643033333934623766646337322f74756d626c725f6f646b6e7434344b555a31716a3838726a6f315f313238302e6a7067](https://diasp.org/camo/13d4409e02503fc60d5203551d110f3d02bce8cd/68747470733a2f2f36362e6d656469612e74756d626c722e636f6d2f39303435313765336532666138386136313466643033333934623766646337322f74756d626c725f6f646b6e7434344b555a31716a3838726a6f315f313238302e6a7067)

To save you some googling, it’s *Brujas yendo al Sabbath*, translated as *Witches going to their Sabbath* (or *The Departure of the Witches*, or again, *The Vision of Faust*) by Spanish painter [Luis Ricardo Falero](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Ricardo_Falero) (1878). Now here’s not only an uncensored version, but an *anti*censored one. You can see everything from all angles ; )

![https://diasp.org/camo/1e1e7f1d42402a2e2046db1d63fa9c071abcf9bd/687474703a2f2f6939392e62656f6e2e72752f33332e6d656469612e74756d626c722e636f6d2f33313333383061613965323661396337383861333037303961663665393762312f74756d626c725f6e75306e67633662634b317166326467326f315f3530302e676966](https://diasp.org/camo/1e1e7f1d42402a2e2046db1d63fa9c071abcf9bd/687474703a2f2f6939392e62656f6e2e72752f33332e6d656469612e74756d626c722e636f6d2f33313333383061613965323661396337383861333037303961663665393762312f74756d626c725f6e75306e67633662634b317166326467326f315f3530302e676966)

… reminds me of what the Internet once did to French painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s *[La Naissance de Vénus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_Venus_(Bouguereau))* (*The Birth of Venus*, 1879 -- that's right, painted literally a year after Luis completed the above):

![https://diasp.org/uploads/images/scaled_full_6360af1699a65e971d24.jpg](https://diasp.org/uploads/images/scaled_full_6360af1699a65e971d24.jpg)

... or even to Michelangelo's world-renowned *[David](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_(Michelangelo))* (1501-4):

![https://diasp.org/uploads/images/scaled_full_432ff3c67cd11af53f60.jpg](https://diasp.org/uploads/images/scaled_full_432ff3c67cd11af53f60.jpg)

I posted this on Diaspora [already](https://diasp.org/posts/6048771), but what the heck, let's see if you guys like it here too. None of the ideas or even pieces here are mine (though I did touch up David myself a bit) but putting them together like this is where my contribution lays. I know I'm toeing the line here, but that's what art's all about right? Pushing boundaries? Right? Guys? You guys?

Yay, art! Enjoy : )
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@d3nv3r · 
Lol yay art... Minus points for hiding the good bits :P
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@jasonxg · 
Like when the block out the genitals in japanese porn.
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@nemo · 
Lol this has never made sense to me either.
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@katharsisdrill · 
<p>Nice post, Nemo :)</p>
<p>The thing with all this censorship is that it is really just puritan US culture that is pushed in the faces of the rest of us. Not long ago I saw the film <em>Ronia the Robber's Daughter</em>with my 7-year old daughter. It is based on the novel by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren, and in the film there is a scene where all the robbers are snowbathing in the nude. In Scandinavia it is acceptable to have naked people in a children's film, so you can imagine that there has been some incidents where the censorship from Facebook and Apple has made people furious in our countries. <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/tech/norways-pm-attacks-facebook-censorship-over-vietnam-photo-100752432--finance.html">Latest in Norway.</a></p>

<p>I wont even start on censorship of historic art!</p>
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@nemo · 
I know, right! Or how prevalent nudism is on central European beaches. A friend from there once remarked about the interesting violence/sex paradox we have going on in the USA/Canada: you can hack someone to bits in the most violent way in Hollywood, but if you *show* those bits, boy, you've got some reckoning to do.
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@skeptic · 
<a href="https://imgflip.com/i/1arf4j"><img src="https://i.imgflip.com/1arf4j.jpg" title="made at imgflip.com"/></a>
Not fully censored :O
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@nemo · 
Oh my goodness, I don't know how I missed that. Rectified! Crisis averted. Phew, that was close.
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@skeptic · 
My poor eyes will never recover from the brown cock you forced into my brain! :O
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@skeptic · (edited)
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if i sit up so i look a my screen from above it gets lighter and you can see this dick is not censored! :O

i feel like im playing wheres waldo dick edition. god help me! xD
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