Fetishes in Classical Artwork...?

[whyche]

I was doing some research on Greco-Romano-Celtic deities and came across this image.
It is a satyr apparently tickling the barefoot of Dionysus(or Bacchus, if yer Roman).
For the folks not mythos-savvy, satyrs were allegoric images of male sex and lust and the Dionysian festivals(Bacchanals, if yer Roman) were all about that, with good wine.
The marble statue is, oddly-enough, in the Vatican museum( I have a personal rant about that, but this ain't the place for it). At any rate, I thought I would share the image here.
I'd like to find a scaled-down copy of the statue for my home.

[somecanuck]

That is really interesting. If same-sex attracted folks have been around forever, so too would fetishists, I would think.

[TheWolf9]

That is really interesting. If same-sex attracted folks have been around forever, so too would fetishists, I would think.

Dirty Spartan feet

[maftluvr]

Nice. Both seem to be enjoying it alot

[peterlondon]

thats great, there is a very pornographic silver roman cup in the british museum that is explicitly gay, its called the warren cup and it caused a furore because it was bought with public money, if you google warren cup you can see it


here are a couple of images for you, a drawing of the hadrian statue in istanbul museum, and a print of the pasha with his foot on a supplicants face, i have this in my house, its very old and i was so lucky to track it down

[whyche]

It is a nice art piece. I like the side with the guy who's peeking through the half-open door at all the fun