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Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
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The Spanish Inquisition and the Naked Maja
After Michelangelo's death, they did appoint a new painter called Ylbragatoone who would go around painting loincloths on people or bits of foliage that would cover up their naughty bits. He painted a caricature of one of his critics onto the Cistean chapel as a denizen of hell with a snake about to bite his cock. They were starting to get quite upset about nudity and sex in the wake of the French Revolution.
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