Or there's the Orgasm, er, Ecstasy, of Saint Theresa in Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome,
http://www.kfki.hu/~/arthp/html/b/bernini/gianlore/sculptur/1640/therese1.html
How explicitly XXX do you want it?
I like the little blurb here: "the female principal transmuted by the action of the male principal." That's what we're supposed to do, yes? Transmute her, she'll appreciate it.
I saw this piece of erotic lunacy again this summer. S. Theresa's autobiographical description of the experience, excerpted on a card available for study in the church is so pornographic that her disclaimer of its having any carnal quality is risible.
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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> On Oct 11, 2007, at 10:54 AM, Michael Smith wrote:
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> > Catholicism has always been sexy -- well, since
> the
> > Counter-Reformation, anyway. Caravaggio! Bernini!
>
> I agree about the, um, subtext. But let's make it
> explicit XXX!
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