Another Shower Of Gold

Many years ago, and again last year, I published artwork illustrating the myth of the conception of Perseus, during which process Danae was in close confinement but nonetheless got impregnated when Zeus rained himself, or an important part of himself, down upon her as a shower of gold coins. I must not be the only person to have wondered about the extent to which Zeus’s golden shower of jizzcoin has been conflated in modernity (or before) with golden showers as a urolagniac euphemism. This related artwork from the May 1968 issue of Adam magazine does not help to main the conceptual distinction, portraying as it does a golden Zeus-shower blasting from the tip of an ornate helmet-headed phallic column:

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Another Golden Shower

About five years ago I offered a quick update on the legend of how Perseus’s mother Danaë got pregnant with him while locked away in a basement, thanks to Zeus and his expedient of manifesting himself as a shower of sticky gold coins. That post included four different artistic treatments of that seminal moment. Here’s another, by the same Alex Székely who painted the recently-appearing portfolio of sex parties:

Sadly I have no information on why Danaë has a helpful handmaiden in this version.

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