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The nakedness and phallic symbols of DC
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Washington, DC, is laced with the shadows of naked sensuality hidden in plain sight. From the Court of Neptune Fountain at the Library of Congress, The Guglielmo Marconi Memorial at 16th and Lamont Streets, NW, the Maillol nudes at the Hirshhorn Museum Sculpture Garden to dinner restaurants where partial nudity is allowed. The erotic fractions of our natural nature can be seen in the Nation’s Capitol through carvings of the breasts, buttocks, and phallic symbols while the art of lovemaking subtly dances in between.
The Washington Monument derived from the Egyptian Obelisk, is the ultimate phallicism representing the masculine dominance and power that is rooted in the culture of this city. The round circle in which it sits is emblematic of the female sexual organ in which it penetrates and gives rise to the erotic powers that lure and attract millions of tourists each year.
Judiciary Square’s Joseph Darlington Fountain at Fifth and D St, NW holds a beautiful golden mother goddess with a fawn who’s spirit reminds mothers to establish a strong connection with their new born first before exposing and overwhelming them too soon with the strange energies of so many people.
The Boy Scout Memorial located at E & 15th Street NW of a naked man and woman led by a boy scout evokes delusions around its meanings based on the dark consciousness of sexuality. From incest and homoeroticism to painfully repressed sexuality the interpretations have been many. Yet, its beauty reveals the creation element of sexuality through the familial triad of father, mother & child.
In February 2002, the Department of Justice purchased $8,000 curtains to cover the Art Deco statue whose aluminum breast was embarrassing to Attorney General Ashcroft. “At that rate, it would cost millions to censor the hundreds of breasts, buttocks, and penises on public display in Washington, D.C.—at least those which are sculpted and stationary,” says photographer Steve Schlich.
You can find the sensual expressions of our erotic nature through nude photography & paintings; figure modeling, erotic cultural dancing, sensual healing touch and the alternative lifestyles that penetrate and erect this city.
"To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude. (The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises." --John Berger
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