Goddess Images

In the midst of a search for representations of posthuman women I found instead a remarkable gallery of divinities. Just two examples:

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They are the work of Chinese artist Li Zhuang Ping (b. 1948), and gorgeous as they are there is just a little bit of controversy about them because the model for all of them, it turns out, is his own foster daughter Li Qin. Father and daughter:

Now over in a certain flyspeck Asian jurisdiction where guy-on-guy buttsex can still land you in prison for two years I have found an earnest, earnest debate going on about how immoral this might or might not be (complete with those hilarious, kinker-that-it-would-without-them black censor boxes over Li Qin’s ladyparts — another view here). It all makes me thank Great Cthulhu for my own metaethical views which leave me looking at these pictures with…enjoyment.

And maybe just a speck of reverence.