Comment on Histories Mysteries
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 months agoWell, I was a nurse’s assistant for twenty years, and had female patients in ages ranging from infant to 103. Sometimes, someone poops and you have to get in there and visually confirm everything is clear.
I never once saw vulvae like that. Never have in pornography, erotica, or with sexual partners.
As art it’s fine. Nothing wrong with interpretation of reality. But as an anatomical model, it fails horribly.
For one thing, no clitoral hood. No urethra that I can see. Even assuming the near infinite variety of shapes labia can be, and assuming that a person only has labia as depicted, there’s still a lack of other anatomy that would be easy to visually verify for something intended as an anatomical reference.
Tbh, it looks less realistic than some of the stuff I saw on bathroom walls in high school lol.
Even pictures I’ve seen of genital mutilation, voluntary body modification, and post surgical results don’t look like that.
I think the closest I’ve seen was post labiaplasty, when everything was still swollen enough the lady couldn’t close her legs without pain.
I just don’t believe the artist used any model at all.
Machinist@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I see two ureters running from the kidneys to the bladder, one ureter cut, bladder pushed to right side. Urethra runs from bladder on top of vagina. Some dissection knowledge present.
Vulva and pubic mound are present, if not terribly well drawn. There may be some influence of vulva as a mouth.
Ovaries are present as is uterus. Muscular nature of uterus is shown along with fetus.
Clitoris seems to be missing.
There are extra pipes all over, with some going to the wrong locations, and things seem to be linked to the liver. The liver being involved is likely due to whatever medical theories were prevalent at the time, humors maybe.
I would assume that the artist likely took a lot of inspiration from animal entrails.
Ignorance isn’t the same as stupid. Looks like a lot of thought was put into it. I would view this more as an early map than as an attempt at realism.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
i’m honestly kinda impressed that it’s this accurate, i certainly wouldn’t produce something this accurate after looking at a woman’s abdomen cut open, i’d be busy vomiting.