La Seu d'Urgell (Lleida)

Male exhibitionist apes in the abbey cloister.

Click to see Luxuria as a Mermaid on the door...

Click to see Luxuria as a Mermaid on the door to the abbey church. >

Compare with this superb baboon-corbel at Mailhat (Puy-de-Dôme)...


photo by Joël Jalladeau



...and with the single chained ape at Droiturier (Allier) menaced by an infernal monster.


A bear and the legs of a human of indeterminate sex on the church tower at Aston Somerville in Gloucestershire.

Another bear on another corner of the tower.


photos by Tina Negus


A female bear (or a sow) on the tower at Alloué (Charente).

 

A masturbating monkey on the Durga Temple at Banaras (Benares, Varanasi), India. 18th century.