London's got them everywhere, all over the buildings -one of the biggest complaints from feminists being the female body has long been used as decoration here.
Some of the more famous ones.
Eros in Piccadilly Circus is a famous meeting point. In the 80s it was slightly sullied as the favoured spot to meet your next trick, for the rentboys from next-door sex district, Soho.
Above him, the Golden Nudes
V&A's David
Achilles Statue, Hyde Park
Physical Energy, Hyde Park
Boy with a Dolphin
Girl with a Dolphin
The Naked Ladies, Twickenham House
Butler's Wharf fountain
Zimbabwe House -mutilated statues. They were controversial from the start, but after a head fell off, missing pedestrians (thanks to acid rain), all protruderences were hacked off
BBC House -the statue of Aerial was recently attacked with a hammer, following protests. The famous, much-celebrated sculptor was revealed as notorious criminal behind closed doors, notably against his daughters. Now facing a reckoning.
Now behind glass, and a part of the 'statue wars'
St James Park building (tube HQ) is also festooned with his sculptures, that were controversial at the time for their sensuality
Mary Woolstonecroft statue was much derided and ridiculed, for celebrating the first feminist with an awkward, tiny nude of her
Soho Square -why???
Golden Square, Soho
Atalanta, Chelsea Embankment
Broadgate Venus
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