Naked Jesus
A very, very small percentage. Used to be, in the good old days of the Renaissance, that at least Baby Jesus was sometimes depicted without even a trace of swaddling clothes. Not any more. As for the Big Scene on the Cross: It was always one of those kid things with me to wonder who was responsible for the swatch of cloth always draped artfully across the Divine Crotch. Were we supposed to believe the Bad Guys (those Romans!) who went around nailing people to crosses were nonetheless so filled with modesty that they supplied their victims with genital coverage? My kid brain didn't think so. Just another item on that longest of lists, the one we all compile as we grow up and then forget when we ourselves join the list: examples of adult hypocrisy. I grew up, studied art history and discovered that actually some of the biggest old names in Art had indeed done naked Jesuses. The other day I stumbled across one such in some book I was reading, and I thought: Aha! Time to search the Wild Wild Web for naked Jesuses. Time to CIRCULATE THOSE IMAGES! Alas. Alas. I'm here to report: The web is not so wild after all. The ommodest Jesus images are still mostly trapped in books. Still, ever eager to smite through the smirk of adult hypocrisy, I thought I'd pass on what I found. Readers who may locate other Internet imagery are invited to send me the URL at once, please! Proceed now to the first image... WARNING:
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