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Traveling through Germany, I've encountered many Roman style statues and monuments from around the 18th century. Plenty of them have exposed female breasts or male genitals. However, I've never seen female genitalia not covered in these statues. Why? Is it a modern style or it comes from antiquity? NSFW

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Traveling through Germany, I've encountered many Roman style statues and monuments from around the 18th century. Plenty of them have exposed female breasts or male genitals. However, I've never seen female genitalia not covered in these statues. Why? Is it a modern style or it comes from antiquity? NSFW	209