The Miracle of 1511,There was much discontent among the Belgian people during the winter of 1511, wh
The Miracle of 1511,There was much discontent among the Belgian people during the winter of 1511, what with a large wealth discrepancy, a corrupt and uncaring regime in the form of the Habsburg Dynasty, and rampant poverty that plagued the country. So, one day, Belgian citizens in Brussels decided to protest the only way they could, by creating around 110 pornographic snowmen surrounding Coudenburg, the palace and residence of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. Among the pornographic figures were politicians in different states of fornication, snow phalluses, a snownun that was seducing a man; a snowman and a snowwoman having sex in front of the town fountain, a naked snowboy urinating into the mouth of a drunken snowman, and snow prostitutes enticing people into the city’s red light district. The Dutch poet Jan Smenken wrote about the miracle in his poem “The Miracle of Real or Imaginary Ice and Snow: A Lost and Then Refound Poem”,“In the Rosendal a wonder was to be seen: a huge plump woman, completely naked, her buttocks were like a barrel, her breasts were finely formed, a dog was ensconced between her legs; her pudendum was covered by a rose; the ‘coffer’ beneath the rose, once you taste it, causes many a man to lose his silver-plate.” -- source link
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