>Even the Baby Jesus erect (not covered) with St. Anne seeming to stroke
>him. There's a long scholarly article on this someplace, perhaps
>Critical Inquiry. If I recall correctly, the article argued that the
>convention was meant to emphasize the Incarnation by emphasizing the
>body, and what better way to emphasize body than an erection. Milton
>wrote a sonnet on the circumcision of Jesus.
A whole book on the topic of the Son of God's erections appeared sometime in the 1980s. I think it was a translation from the French, of course.
Doug