[SunkenCiv]

A newly discovered mural shows Leda having sex with a swan. Photo: Parco Archeologico di Pompei

[Sacajaweau]

That's rape??

It is an amazing fresco.

[Yo-Yo]

Gives a new perspective on the ballet Swan Lake...

[equaviator]

I've heard about how to get down from a duck but never how to get down with a duck.

[Red Badger]

It would be another 1500 years before the realism of art began anew.................

[BigEdLB]

When you do it wth a swan, how is the bill paid?

[PGR88]

Makes sense that God destroyed this place, literally with fire and brimstone.

[lurk]

She doesn’t look very happy about it. Are women into waterfowl that much?

[Kozak]

That’s nothing compared to the fresco we saw at the House of the Vettii in Pompei

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompeii_Priapus_2.jpg

[Pontiac]

Michelangelo's Leda and the Swan

[Buckeye McFrog]

That is remarkably well-preserved.

What did they do, remodel the bedroom and cover it up
with some sort of cheesy oak paneling?

[Penelope Dreadful]

Swanee! Swanee! How I love you! How I love you, my dear old Swaneeeee!

[rfp1234]

Dr. Swan, Medicine Woman.

She may be a quack, but you can’t duck her bills.

[Larry Lucido]

Did the swan have a wing-man?

[DesScorp]

This is tame compared to other paintings about the myth. Look up Francois Boucher’s painting of 1740. Basically full blown bestiality.

[Redcitizen]

Was the swan rich?

You know, swanky.

[morphing libertarian]

It’s very clear the empire fell because of bird sex