Body Worlds... Naked

Amy, it looks like your campaign for museal sex education has a new champion: Gunther von Hagens has added plastinated corpses having sex to his Body Worlds show in Berlin. Of course, it's all terribly artistic, because it's based on a Leonardo da Vinci drawing (oddly featuring some gender confusion?). Having seen one of the Body Worlds shows, I can confirm that it's not in the slightest bit sexy or erotic, despite von Hagen's strangely pornographic preference for leaving genitals, nipples, and pubic hair intact on his otherwise flayed specimens. However, there is plenty of abjection: I think I've already written about my revulsion at seeing a plastinated, heavily pregnant woman posed as an Odalisque. It's an interesting thought to keep in mind for me right now, as I am writing a literature review about The Body As Object: how we have very powerful expectations of bodies as being vital, active things, and how seeing them dead and frozen in caricatures of living causes us to shudder in disgust at this experience of the uncanny.