Too much tail and not enough bone: Woman complains that museum exhibit is just “Whale Bone Porn”

Part of the exhibit features scrimshaw carvings made by sailors as long ago as the 19th century on the teeth of sperm whales – some of which depict lewd and sexual acts.

“Oral sex, masturbation, a penis on one of them, people having sex in the images,” Pimentel told reporters from a local newspaper. “Anyone under the age of 18 shouldn’t be seeing these images.”

Pimentel’s accusations come in the wake of her visiting the exhibit and accidentally taking her two young sons, aged two and three.

Mrs Pimentel was still furious with the museum, despite their placing warning signs in the entrance to the exhibit and the (how to say) saltier articles of scrimshaw being hung two metres above the ground.

Indeed nothing short of quarantining the offending pieces of art will swathe her anger.

“[They should be] in an isolated room … clearly marked, where a child or anyone under 18 can’t see them,” she told the Vancouver Sun.

Mrs Pimentel has not just complained to the local newspaper though, but has taken her outrage on to the wide world web as well, blanketing review sites and the museum’s Facebook page with her negative spin.

So far the only thing Pimentel’s complaining has achieved is a further ‘avert your eyes’ warning being put up at the entrance to the exhibit room.

Museum curator Patricia Owen has said that Pimentel’s complaint is the only negative comment received so far and that much of the more vivid imagery has not even been put on display and is instead locked underground in the basement.

According to the Huffington Post these articles include “depictions of creative candlestick use and what Ms. Owen cautiously describe as ‘the act.'”

This lady just needs to relax and enjoy how innocent everything is now. If she thinks a few drawings on some whale bone is bad, she’s going to have an absolute heart attack when her little boys grow up a little and stumble upon free to view internet pornography sites.

With just a click of the mouse those boys will be thrown headlong into a world of perversions and sexual horrors so myriad and varied that it’ll make the collective scribblings of a couple of 19th Century Nantucket whalers look like a Beatrix Potter novel.

… On a side note; how good is the internet!

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