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Female sculptures. The Stone Carvings And Stony-Hearted Women. According to legends ascetics lived in their forest hermitages (ashram) in couples (mithuna).

The Stone Carvings And Stony-Hearted Women

So I can adduce web versions of the famous Indian epos Ramayana, the very touching story of female loyal love Savitri and Satyavan, the myth on the god of ascetics and his consort Sati & Shiva who lived in the Himalayas — the homeland of Yakshas, and finally the legend of Upagupta: The Buddhist Monk portraying a Mathura sculptor carving sculpture of a beautiful female ascetic.

Besides, in Indian mythology in Indian mythology occurs a very common motif of the interruption of an ascetic feat (tapas) with a sexual intercourse by a beautiful women. Also it's significant that Buddhist esoteric tradition of tantra is known to combine ascetic and sexual practices. Later historical sources picture Ancient Indian ascetics as celibates, sex as vulgarly sensual, and gender relations as problematic. and never in the reality or in realistic art.

They feel at ease having no real cloth on. Venus figurines. "Venus figurines" is an umbrella term for a number of prehistoric statuettes of women portrayed with similar physical attributes from the Upper Palaeolithic, mostly found in Europe, but with finds as far east as Irkutsk Oblast, Siberia, extending their distribution to much of Eurasia, from the Pyrenees to Lake Baikal.

Venus figurines

Most of them date to the Gravettian period, but there are a number of early examples from the Aurignacian, including the Venus of Hohle Fels, discovered in 2008, carbon dated to at least 35,000 years ago, and late examples of the Magdalenian, such as the Venus of Monruz, aged about 11,000 years. These figurines were carved from soft stone (such as steatite, calcite or limestone), bone or ivory, or formed of clay and fired. The latter are among the oldest ceramics known. In total, over a hundred such figurines are known; virtually all of modest size, between 4 cm and 25 cm in height. They are some of the earliest works of prehistoric art. History of discovery[edit] Notes[edit] If we did Christina Hendricks in HQ, would that be too big? (20 HQ Photos. Appreciating the Female Form... Well, I thought I’d never get access to this blog again, but here I am!

Appreciating the Female Form...

You guys have stayed with me for so long, I’d love to get to know some of you. Feel free to ask anything or submit! 3:26 am • 2 April 2014 • 1 note Anonymous asked: How do i upload a picture? Can i do it myself or must it go through to tastefullyundressed address? Just go to the submit page and feel free to upload a picture. 8:46 pm • 4 January 2013 Anonymous asked: Hey can you add pictures of girls with more pubic hair and more realistic looking women. I’d love to, but the resources that I get these pictures from are extremely random and I’m limited to posting what I get from there. If anyone would like to submit themselves or anywhere I can get such images from, I will gladly do so.