...For Solar Bear
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With her five additional vertebrae, the "odalisque" (concubine) depicted in this painting is meant to convey sensuality, and departs from anatomical realism which was asserted at the time.
I especially like the quote on wikipedia that suggests that the distance between her (difficult to decipher) gaze and pelvic region are a "physical representation of the depth of thought and complex emotions of a woman's thoughts and feelings"; taken from a 1997 edition of the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine.
Maybe some men do get it after all.
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