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To: SunkenCiv
Instead of placing the artifacts on view, staff at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli stashed them in a secret room closed to all but scholars and, according to Atlas Obscura, male visitors willing to bribe their way in.

An Italian archaeologist friend of mine sent me and my travel companions (three young women) into the Museo Archeologico on my first trip to Naples, and the museum tour guard was having an admittedly mild crisis of conscience about how much to show us, since American women can make a scene. Up on a high pedestal in the center of one of the more public rooms, there was a large nude male sculpture, which had a small hole in the fig leaf area. The guard took a happy-to-see-us sculpted phallus out of a drawer and inserted it for our viewing pleasure—LOL! We were rather naïve, middle-class gals and he got a kick out of embarrassing us! A memorable tour.

87 posted on 04/29/2022 9:01:45 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (If science can’t be questioned, it’s not science anymore, it’s propaganda. --Aaron Rodgers)
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To: Albion Wilde

Hey, if you had been Europeans, he’d have used his own, instead of the sculpted one. ;^)


94 posted on 04/29/2022 9:12:29 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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