Peruvian museum room seems "fri shop"

Sexual repression is not unique to Christian culture. Notes that those who visit the museum Rafael Larco Herrera (museolar.co.org) in Lima, which has one of the largest and richest collections of gold and ceramic objects dating back over 3,000 years of pre-Columbian history.

Among the more than 44,000 pieces, there is a specific room, which houses the collection of erotic Mochica culture. Vases and statues are representations of practices and sexual organs.

Enough to have the sensation of being inside a "fri shop" pre-Inca, with ceramic vases in the shape of a penis and, if not absurd adjective, dolls "inflatable" in clay.

Some of the parts, the guides were used to represent the harvest period and therefore fertility.

Further, they referred to death as a giant penis statue with a head and a skull, showing the concern of these civilizations with excessive attachment to the pleasures of the flesh.

EROTIC ROOM?

One of the many taxi drivers of the Peruvian capital, but the owner of a rare knowledge of museums of Lima, the story leads to the Larco Herrera, which ranks as "one of the best in Lima."

The driver explains that the collection of that museum is situated inside a 18th century colonial mansion, which, in turn, was built over a pre-Columbian pyramid of the 7th century.

"There is an erotic room. It's a place where people usually go silent. Then you ask: 'What did you think of erotic room?' And I respond: "There was one? Do not warn me. '"

PERMANENT EXHIBITION

In the permanent exhibition rooms there are also objects less "embarrassing", as tissues that demonstrate the development of techniques for making looms and staining of fibers that date back to 1000 BC

Shortly after detailing the method established textile, guide sticks to explain details of a painting that demonstrates the symbolic form of Spanish colonization.

The table shows all the Inca dynasty, at any given time, is succeeded by Spanish King Carlos 1, presented as "the legitimate heir of the Inca kings."

Source: Fact Sheet online

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