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Skin soft like petals * If men wanted to embody arousal to define their power over the world, they could have chosen the soft, colourful symbol of the flower. Small yet bewitching, pure organs of reproduction, attracting the whole natural world, stealing all the lights and colours, painted everywhere, carved, mathematically calculated; yet, they chose the wolf, alpha, beta, zeta, baba, domesticated into dogs, stinky, that no woman would wear in her hair. They could have chosen purely attractive, emergent, magnetic symbols — but took the forceful, submissive, fear-based ones.

Painters: Mia Tarney, Jacques Réatu, unknown, Alessandro Turchi.

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Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (French, 1780-1867) Jupiter and Thétis, 1811 Rmn-Grand Palais, Paris The episode is taken from Homer's Iliad: the nymph Thetis, mother of Achilles, is imploring Jupiter to resolve the conflict between her son and Agamemnon, the leader of the Greek expedition to Troy – Jupiter's wife, Juno, looks on from afar.

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Heinrich Heinlein (German, 1803-1885). “Porträt des Malers Heinlein als Ritter Schellenberg (Portrait of the painter Heinlein as Knight Schellenberg)”, c.1840. Galerie Bassenge, Berlin. oil on canvas

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Herkules und die Hydra by Franz von Stuck (1915)

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Hermann Bruck - Lady at the window (ca. 1900)

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Sailor sewing sail, by Frits Thaulow (1847-1906)

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"Male nude", 1905 by Carl Budtz-Møller (1882–1953). Danish painter. oil on canvas

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gentle surrender von isabel's canvas

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Claudio Bravo (Chilean, 1936–2011)

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Michael Breyette

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"Nude male", in the manner of Henry Scott Tuke

Nude Male

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Bathing soldiers (The builders of a bridge) 1959, Dmitry Zhilinsky

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A standing male nude, 1914, by Henry Scott Tuke (1858-1929)

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Konstantin Somov (Russian, 1869-1939)

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Abraham Neumann

„Male sitting on the windowsill“

oil on canvas

IM Kinsky

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Alfred Munnings (1878-1959) Study of a standing male nude Uncensored version

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