Archeologists may have found the oldest piece of "art" in existence: A sculpture of Venus de Milo dating back 35,000 years ago. That's approximately 5,000 years before the next Venus knockoffs! So what were the standards for a perfect woman back in the day?
The short, squat torso is dominated by oversize breasts and broad
buttocks. The split between the two halves of the buttocks is deep and
continuous without interruption to the front of the figurine. A greatly
enlarged vulva emphasizes the “deliberate exaggeration” of the
figurine’s sexual characteristics, Dr. Conard said.
(...)By modern standards, he said, the figurine’s blatant sexuality “could be seen as bordering on the pornographic.”
Luckily, artistic cavepeople weren't hindered by the Moral Majority Coalition telling them that their statues were sexually deviant pieces of trash.
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