Scared old man sitting on the ground. Beside him stands a young girl. She looks warily around and offers him her breasts. It is not erotic fantasy and the real story of the painting, which until then, sire of many shocking. What is this picture? And what artists have depicted breastfeeding adult males?
Lactation firmly established in the art. Madonna, who feeds the baby Jesus is considered a classic. But the old man who breastfeed looks vile and disgusting. What is the history of these subjects paintings of past centuries?
merciful daughter
About a woman who breast-feeds the old man told the Roman writer Valerius Maximus 1. BC It was like this: Tsimona old man was sentenced to death by starvation in prison. Pen daughter begged the authorities have the right to care for his father before he died. She came to him, every day changed the straw under him, give water. Father is becoming weaker. Unable to withstand the torture pope offered his pen breast-feed (She recently gave birth to a baby). How long she fed Tsimona Valerius mentions. But the old man died. Then the guard was ordered to follow the daughter. When the authorities found out what he eats Tsimon, they were shocked. On the one hand, the need to pen to punish. On the other hand, this mercy they have not seen. Therefore, the authorities pardoned criminals and released it. Valerius casually mentions that Perot fed and the mother, who was sitting in the same cell with his father. But this story is not entered in the art.
Adult HB painting
The plot of breastfeeding adult men first appeared in art as early as 1. n. e. In Pompeii there is a fresco depicting the history Tsimona and Perot. Her you can see above.
In the Middle Ages the theme of feeding the old man forgotten. It looked as incest with a very deep sexual connotations. Therefore, the plot again returned to RenaissanceWhen the church gave up the slack. Since that time, who is not only depicted the story of a Roman merciful: from Caravaggio to Rubens. And his review at the picture of the old man and his daughter himself wrote the philosopher Denis Diderot. He is the first time noticed that for compassionate breastfeeding may be hiding more than a desire to give life to his father.
Erotic fantasies
Diderot observed that erotic overtones may be lurking in the adult lactation. Just at that time no other way it was impossible to portray a man who kisses a woman's chest. And even more put on public display this picture. Much later come into practice the concept of "erotic lactation" and, together with sociologists, psychiatrists will examine this subject. But it has been casually mentioned nearly 2,000 years in a variety of genres: painting, sculpture and cinema 18+.
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