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Doc puts death and sex on display

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Published online 15 Sep 09

Dr Gunther von Hagens is causing an uproar again with a newly planned exhibition of his plastinated corpses, this time combining the patented publicity generators of sex and death. The German anatomist, who dissects and preserves donated bodies for display in exhibitions worldwide, says he'd like to organise a show made up solely of cadavers demonstrating various sexual practices. The macabre doctor's newest stunt follows a German court's ban of a display of his showing a pair of skinned cadavers in a unique sexual position. To try and get around the local decency laws, von Hagens hacked off the dead lovers' torsos, explaining that "It was the expressions on the faces that the court objected to—so I have removed that problem."

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