<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/61c0e4a2-06b2-4a59-b342-5123080bf8a1/1376E867-A625-456C-93D0-FEDC3520E595/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/5320495/35000-year-old-statue-thought-to-be-worlds-first-nude-sculpture.html" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/5320495/35000-year-old-statue-thought-to-be-worlds-first-nude-sculpture.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.telegraph.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/5320495/35000-year-old-statue-thought-to-be-worlds-first-nude-sculpture.html"><P> The sexually explicit figurine was carved out of mammoth ivory and was given huge breasts and private parts along with a bloated belly and thighs that by today's standards "could be seen as bordering on the pornographic." </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/5320495/35000-year-old-statue-thought-to-be-worlds-first-nude-sculpture.html">The prehistoric figurine, named 'Venus' after the Roman goddess of love</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/5320495/35000-year-old-statue-thought-to-be-worlds-first-nude-sculpture.html"><P> Cavemen were obsessed with big breasts and bottoms and exaggerated these traits in their art as they regarded these parts of the female anatomy as signs of fertility. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/5320495/35000-year-old-statue-thought-to-be-worlds-first-nude-sculpture.html">The statue, described in Nature, was found buried in the <A href="http://www.showcaves.com/english/de/caves/HohlerFels.html">Hohle Fels Cave</A> near Ulm in the Swabian Jura region of south-western Germany</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/5320495/35000-year-old-statue-thought-to-be-worlds-first-nude-sculpture.html"><P> The 'Venus of Hohle Fels' lacks a head and instead there is an off-centre but carefully carved ring located above the figurine's broad shoulders. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/5320495/35000-year-old-statue-thought-to-be-worlds-first-nude-sculpture.html">Venus has "grotesquely exaggerated sexual features</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; 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