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pickled mushhead

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  1. New penis for statue in Silvio Berlusconi's Rome office

     

    A marble Roman statue of Mars has had its snapped-off penis rebuilt and reattached on the specific orders of the prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi.

     

    The reported cost to taxpayers of the restoration – 70,000 euros (£59,500) – prompted criticism at a time when the Italian government has slashed millions of euros from the country's arts and heritage budget and parts of Pompeii are crumbling into dust.

     

    "This is aesthetic surgery carried out on the personal whim of the prime minister," said Manuela Ghizzoni of the opposition Democratic Party.

     

    The 6ft-high sculpture, which dates from around AD175 and stands next to a similarly proportioned statue of Venus, is on loan from a museum and displayed in Palazzo Chigi, Mr Berlusconi's office in central Rome.

     

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    The new penis has been fitted with a magnet so that it can be easily removed if, in future, a more comprehensive restoration is carried out.

     

    Experts studied statues of male nudes from the same period in order to determine what the dimensions of the prosthetic penis should be, according to Italy's La Repubblica.

     

     

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