Lotto - Venus and Cupid (Micturition Micturating per Meatal Urinary Stream)

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"Venus and Cupid (Micturition Micturating per Meatal Urinary Stream) " (see details), c 1520 - Lorenzo Lotto - Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, USA

Note : This picture is based on the poem "Epithalamia" and incorporates many attributes related to marriage - ivy strands for fidelity and the wreath represents the marriage chamber (vagina). Cupid's "pissing" action is an augury of fertilization, the implication being that the urethra and urinary meatus are the conduits of sperm as well as urine.

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