First, they unveiled an oversized tribute to the enema in a town square. Now, Russia is trying to one-up itself with this latest piece of public art.

A Russian sculptor inspired by a visit to Amsterdam's notorious red-light district has created a bas-relief sculpture of a woman's breasts, now on display in a south Russian town, local authorities said.

The sculpture, lying on a one-meter-high plinth in a park in the town of Bataysk, near Rostov-on-Don, features a pair of breasts being fondled by a man's hand.

A spokeswoman for the Bataysk administration told RIA Novosti that the sculptor, Anatoly Sknarin, "saw a similar composition in Amsterdam" on a paving slab in the red-light district and decided to emulate the work in his home town.

She said the sculpture's base will be soon plastered and painted, and will display a suggestive message in verse, encouraging men to touch the breasts to "improve their manly strength" and "stay young forever."

Is anyone even remotely surprised that a man created this work? And that a man is going to encourage other men to grope the artwork... and that big, firm breasts equal longevity? Okay, the last part makes some biological sense, at least, but this is still, in some ways, a big Cro-Mag limp back to the Dark Ages, no?

Via the Russian News and Information Network. 

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Russians Worship The Enema (because it would've been too offensive to pun "Russians Surrender To The Enema," wethinks.)