Sex out at Singapore 'life cycle' body show
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October 31, 2009, Saturday
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A CONTROVERSIAL exhibition charting life from conception to old age using cadavers has come to Singapore this week - but without the copulating corpses that caused an uproar in Germany.
Body Worlds' "The Cycle of Life" exhibition is one of several around the world that show skinless corpses with muscles and organs revealed, in life-like, often theatrical positions.
The specimens are from people who have agreed to donate their bodies for educational purposes.
The exhibitions, visited by some 28 million people around the world, have been criticized by some people as unacceptable, with German politicians taking special offense at "The Cycle of Life" exhibit which opened in Berlin earlier this year because it included copulating cadavers.
These corpses, however, are not on display in Singapore. What's on show is a flat cross-section of two copulating bodies that only shows their internal organs.
"Sensational display of sexual activity does not go with our theme," said Chew Tuan Chiong, chief executive of the Singapore Science Centre.
"It is for educational and science study, and there is not much controversy for using real human body specimens in this exhibition for us," he said, adding that several schools had brought students to see the exhibition.
Body Worlds' founders, Gunther von Hagens and his wife Angelina Whalley, prepare the bodies using a technique invented by von Hagens called plastination in which water is removed from specimens and they are preserved with silicon rubber or resin.
In Singapore, nearly 200 human specimens are on display, including single organs and preserved animals. The exhibition runs until March 2010.
Body Worlds' "The Cycle of Life" exhibition is one of several around the world that show skinless corpses with muscles and organs revealed, in life-like, often theatrical positions.
The specimens are from people who have agreed to donate their bodies for educational purposes.
The exhibitions, visited by some 28 million people around the world, have been criticized by some people as unacceptable, with German politicians taking special offense at "The Cycle of Life" exhibit which opened in Berlin earlier this year because it included copulating cadavers.
These corpses, however, are not on display in Singapore. What's on show is a flat cross-section of two copulating bodies that only shows their internal organs.
"Sensational display of sexual activity does not go with our theme," said Chew Tuan Chiong, chief executive of the Singapore Science Centre.
"It is for educational and science study, and there is not much controversy for using real human body specimens in this exhibition for us," he said, adding that several schools had brought students to see the exhibition.
Body Worlds' founders, Gunther von Hagens and his wife Angelina Whalley, prepare the bodies using a technique invented by von Hagens called plastination in which water is removed from specimens and they are preserved with silicon rubber or resin.
In Singapore, nearly 200 human specimens are on display, including single organs and preserved animals. The exhibition runs until March 2010.
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