March 12th, 2010 -- by Bacchus
Teabagged By The Devil, 1882
After last year’s hilarity involving the education of a substantial fraction of our culture in the finer points of teabagging, it’s time to share a “nothing-new-under-the-sun” moment that surprised even me. I refer, of course, to an artwork called Calvary. It’s by Felicien Rops, dates from 1882, and it features, among other disturbing imagery, the devil’s own ball sack, squarely planted (ok, not quite square, her head is tilted) on a sacrificial forehead:
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I laughed out loud. That’s rare, so it merits a comment, I think.
I find this incredibly dis tastefull. you usually do very well, but this, was below the belt
I love Rops, his works involving flying witches enjoying their brooms and devil dudes with rope-penis-syndrome are also very cool.