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I enjoy reading Mens Health. I already know what women's magazines suggest us to be the real life, so it is interesting what kind of bullshit is supposed to be the guidelines for male humans. 
(BTW, I borrow the magazines at the library.) There was a survey in one of the recent issues: "What images stimulated your first erotic thoughts?" First place, about 35 % : lingerie catalogues. Second: father's "collection", discovered by occasion. About the 6th place, 10 % of the first arousals were caused by looking through National Geographic!
Happy are those who know less.
"Between A.D. 1000 and 1150 - barely 5 generations - a small branch of Mogollon peoples living in the Mimbres Valley area of New Mexico produced an astonishing array of black-on-white and polychrome pottery." Pots were buried upside down over the faces of the dead, and all have holes: they were punched during the funeral ceremony, but it caused minor damage to the design.
Man in Bat Costume, Decapitation, Two Heads with Water Bugs, Man Trapping Birds in a Garden - all kinds of subjects. Was the decapitation real? And Batman?
"A depiction of childbirth, with the newborn waving a greeting, seems the stuff of everyday." First I was tempted to cut the picture out and past it to the wall - I liked the rough image lacking all gender characteristics, and eye as large as the whole face, or, perhaps, a combination of an eye and an ear
, and a baby's head and hands protruding from between the legs. Then I recalled that the pot was used for a funeral purpose. Then I recalled memories of one doctor about the Great Famine in Ukraine 1932-33: a woman who starved to the degree that the she could not push out a baby, who had already passed the dilated cervix, and died of hunger, with a baby half-born - the baby died too, since nobody helped the woman delivering right on the street.
Eros vs. Tanatos... F* your Geographic! Good night!
However, today I've looked at the picture one more time. Well, the baby's eyes must be open, and, what is really important, there was a ritual, there was somebody who made a nice pot. Now I feel more relaxed.
(BTW, I borrow the magazines at the library.) There was a survey in one of the recent issues: "What images stimulated your first erotic thoughts?" First place, about 35 % : lingerie catalogues. Second: father's "collection", discovered by occasion. About the 6th place, 10 % of the first arousals were caused by looking through National Geographic! Happy are those who know less.
"Between A.D. 1000 and 1150 - barely 5 generations - a small branch of Mogollon peoples living in the Mimbres Valley area of New Mexico produced an astonishing array of black-on-white and polychrome pottery." Pots were buried upside down over the faces of the dead, and all have holes: they were punched during the funeral ceremony, but it caused minor damage to the design.
Man in Bat Costume, Decapitation, Two Heads with Water Bugs, Man Trapping Birds in a Garden - all kinds of subjects. Was the decapitation real? And Batman?
"A depiction of childbirth, with the newborn waving a greeting, seems the stuff of everyday." First I was tempted to cut the picture out and past it to the wall - I liked the rough image lacking all gender characteristics, and eye as large as the whole face, or, perhaps, a combination of an eye and an ear
, and a baby's head and hands protruding from between the legs. Then I recalled that the pot was used for a funeral purpose. Then I recalled memories of one doctor about the Great Famine in Ukraine 1932-33: a woman who starved to the degree that the she could not push out a baby, who had already passed the dilated cervix, and died of hunger, with a baby half-born - the baby died too, since nobody helped the woman delivering right on the street. Eros vs. Tanatos... F* your Geographic! Good night!
However, today I've looked at the picture one more time. Well, the baby's eyes must be open, and, what is really important, there was a ritual, there was somebody who made a nice pot. Now I feel more relaxed.