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If nothing cheers you up quite like a lamp shaped like a penis, have we got a museum exhibit for you -- the Cycladic Art Museum in Athens, Greece, is doing a special exhibit on Eros, the god of sexual love and beauty.It seems life in ancient Greece was a lot like a bachelorette party: If somebody was feeling down in the dumps, you just gave them something with a wiener inscribed on it, and it would cheer them up or bless them with good fortune. And these wieners were everywhere, in addition to humping scenes and all kinds of things that would make a grown man blush. They could be found in places ranging from vases to public crests.
In many ways, ancient Greece is a lot like the world today -- sex is everywhere. Only in Greece, nobody got upset about a pair of naked breasts. Naked breasts were like their horseshoes, and centuries later we get to look at them. At least until April, when the exhibit ends.
