Anyone down for some naked-body viewing this weekend? If yes, then make your way to the Exquisite Bodies exhibition hosted at London’s Wellcome Collection venue on Euston Road. Before you get your horny pants on, there are probably some things that you should know: the term exquisite is a tad misleading – the exhibition is not an artistic reproduction of the Arnies and Marilyns of the last century but a collection of gruesome wax models. Another Body Worlds you may assume? Uh … no. Exquisite Bodies is a reproduction of anatomical models used by 19th-century medical schools for education purposes. During this time, the demand from medical schools for fresh cadavers far outweighed the supply. So, because there just weren’t enough dead people lying around, medical schools used lifelike wax models for dissection purposes. The dodgy dollies were also used to demonstrate bodies ravaged by ‘social diseases’ including venereal disease, tuberculosis and alcohol and drug addiction. (more…)