What is the big controversy over the body works exhibit in Germany?
A controversial exhibition featuring preserved corpses having sex opened Thursday in Germany’s capital. Part of his traveling “Body Works” exhibition, “The Cycle of Life,” is showing at Berlin’s Postbahnhof and features 200 human bodies at various life stages — from conception to old age, including embryos and fetuses taken from historic anatomical collections. In one exhibit a male body is lying on his back with a woman sitting astride him with her back towards his head. Torsten Woehlert, spokesman for Berlin’s Culture Ministry, told CNN that there has already been a number of complaints from the public in the press, though none have come to the ministry itself. He said: “As it is not against the law, only against good taste, there is not much the government could do anyway.” Conceived by Gunther von Hagens — dubbed Dr. Death in Germany — the exhibition displays the bodies with their muscles, nerves and tendons on show using a preservation technique he pioneered called plastination. T
