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I have only one vague source to draw on, but isn't Hermes Psychopompos the basic meaning? Camille Paglia, she who must be obeyed, says of Donatello's David: "The hand on hip and cocked knee create an air of sexual solicitation. From the side, one is struck by the peachy buttocks, bony shoulder blades, and petulantly protruding boy-belly. The combination of child’s physique with female body language is perverse and pederastic." So the link with the pederastic sport is surely also present. |