Cover up those naked Egyptian mummies

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Letum

You really shouldn't bee looking at your mother in law naked.
Really.

Heaven forbid sir!

it would be more exciting if I simply stuck my head up an elephants bottom.

[Letum]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Heaven forbid sir!

it would be more exciting if I simply stuck my head up an elephants bottom.

I won't ask how you know that!

(but I will imply)

[sunvalleyslim]

Don't really see that a 3 thousand year old mummy could be erotic to anyone, maybe interesting scientifically but come on, no ones going to get a chubby looking at that

[Letum]

Originally Posted by sunvalleyslim

Don't really see that a 3 thousand year old mummy could be erotic to anyone, maybe interesting scientifically but come on, no ones going to get a chubby looking at that

I really don't think it is about that.
See other posts.

[Stealth Hunter]

Originally Posted by Letum

Just to play devil's advocate:

Would you be concerned if your dead body or the dead body of one of your close
relatives (say for example your mother) was put on public public display in the nude
because it was consider historicaly intresting SUBMAN?

I don't think I'd really give a damn since I've been dead over 3,000 years and dead is dead... I really wouldn't care. Gawk away. It's kind of strange that you'd even look at a mummy's private quarters.

[Von Tonner]

We had an interesting case here in SA over Sara Baartman. She was from the Hottentot tribe and was paraded around Europe 200 years ago because of her large buttocks and labia. When she died the French bottled and preserved these parts of her anatomy and put them on public display in one of their museums.

Given that, I think the mummy got off lightly.

"The remains of an African woman who was paraded around Europe as a freak and scientific curiosity have been handed back to the South African Government in a symbolic gesture of reconciliation by France. The skeleton and bottled organs of Saarti Baartman - who was known as the "Hottentot Venus" for her pronounced buttocks and genitals - were handed over to the South African ambassador in a ceremony in Paris on Friday, ending a long battle for her return."


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1957240.stm

[Jimbuna]

This is starting to turn into a necro thread (every possible pun intended)

Bring on the naked dancing girls

[bradclark1]

No wonder citizens are leaving in droves. The UK is going off the deep end.

[kurtz]

Lot of nudity on subsim last couple of days...where do I complain?

[AVGWarhawk]

I agree with Letum. These are people. At the very least cover up the pelvic area.

[joea]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

I agree with Letum. These are people. At the very least cover up the pelvic area.

Correction, these were people now they are ex-people.


*Awaits ban for oblique MP reference*

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by joea

Correction, these were people now they are ex-people.


*Awaits ban for oblique MP reference*

Sorry, mate, these are people. No repect for the dead? You would probably not feel that way if it was your family member. Then again, I do not know how twisted your mind might be.

[Letum]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

I agree with Letum. These are people. At the very least cover up the pelvic area.

No...you do not agree with me.

Read my replies more carefully.
I do not want them covered up. I think there is a very fine balance to be made and
arguments for covering them should not just be dismissed. Any corpse should be
treated with respect, but I think we can achieve that respect with out covering them up.

The ideal situation for me would be some kind of briefing to emphasise the need to respect
the corpse like medical students get before a human dissection.

I don't know what the museam has in place already.

It is a sad fact that the remains of these people have been treated as a freak show in the past.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Letum

No...you do not agree with me.

Read my replies more carefully.
I do not want them covered up. I think there is a very fine balance to be made and
arguments for covering them should not just be dismissed. Any corpse should be
treated with respect, but I think we can achieve that respect with out covering them up.

I'm agreeing with you that these are people. Covering up at least the pelvic area are my own thoughts. This was my thought to achieve the level of repect without covering completely. Covering them up entirely defeats the purpose of study of mumification.

[Raptor1]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Covering them up entirely defeats the purpose of study of mumification.

Not to mention the purpose of a museum display, I mean, you might as well put a block of aluminum there and say that it's a mummy...

I think I agree with covering them up partially...