European Prudery Watch: Paris Clamps Down On Lewd Acts Committed On a Graveyard Statue

Ummm...

Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris has fenced off a famous tomb to prevent lewd acts being performed on a statue.

The effigy of 19th Century journalist known as Victor Noir has long been popular with women visitors.

This is partly due to his reputation as a romantic figure, and partly because of the effigy's design.

Officials concerned about damage to the icon's groin area have erected a fence around the grave, and a sign prohibiting indecent rubbing.

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The statue shows Noir in a frock coat and trousers lying flat on his back, with a distinct enlargement in the groin.

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The new sign warns: "Any damage caused by graffiti or indecent rubbing will be prosecuted."

You stupid Europeans! You are all, how you say, so sexually repressed! Why, here in America, we actually applaud when lewd acts are committed on a tombstone, and we call mortuaries "love hotels." This is just, what is the word, how Americans roll. If you weren't all such childish prudes and uptight moralistic scolds, perhaps you wouldn't be invading innocent countries like the Ivory Coast! Bah! I spew my Galoise-stinking spittle at you!

(Insert your own Dick Cheney joke here. I'm tapped.)

Thanks to Skinnersphere.

posted by Ace at 01:29 PM

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