Portræt af Antinoos (m. proptrækker-krøller)

Copy in plaster of Aphrodite Urania with left foot on a tortoise, appr. 420 BC Being the Goddess of desire and childbirth, she was supposed to share the joy of everything wet with the phallic looking tortoise. The name “Urania” refers to her birth out of the God of the Sky Uranos’ testicles. She represents one side of love’s two-sided nature, the celestial, eternal love as opposed to “Pandemos”, earthly love. In the Nineteenth century Homosexual men began speaking of themselves as being “Uranian” meaning having a 3rd kind of gender. According to Plato’s antique text “Symposion” these were both the manliest and the most skilled for politics, and guardians of democratic rule.