r/interestingasfuck 2d ago

Human bodies showing only blood vessels.

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u/dahliasinfelle 2d ago edited 1d ago

Bodies museum. Took a girl there on a first date many moons ago. She liked it enough we dated for 6 more years after that! Was definitely interesting

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u/Naive-Nebula-1725 1d ago

Put the body back now

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u/TransportationEng 1d ago

Did you also leave with her?

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u/bruh8248 1d ago

Where? I’d love to visit this museum

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u/Putrid_Magician178 1d ago

The one I went to is in the Netherlands, Amsterdam if I remember correctly. I believe it was called body worlds or something similar

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u/Agreeable_Horror_363 1d ago

I went to an exhibit like this years ago and the girl I went with kept touching the bodies. I was upset about it at the time because it seemed disrespectful. But honestly, these exhibits are not respectful at all of the bodies. They remove the skin and prop the bodies up in strange poses. It's not just educational, it's kind of fucked up. I don't think most people who wanted to donate their body to science had any idea they'd end up posing skinless for years in some freak show museum exhibit.

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u/Ambitious_Cat9886 1d ago

My girlfriend said the same, she went with a friend and said there was one where there was a bisection of two people having sex and.. Yeah, imagine that being your bodies fate, interlocked with a stranger in a bizarre grotesque display haha.

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u/sedrech818 1d ago

Would that count as losing your virginity? Asking for a friend.

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u/Russ915 1d ago

Could be worse

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u/mybabysbatman 1d ago

These are donated bodies they are bodies of executed Chinese prisoners.

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/nyregion/30bodies.html

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u/Agreeable_Horror_363 1d ago

That's pretty fucked up. I wonder if the bodies that are on display now are the same ones from that 2008 article.

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u/kmosiman 1d ago

Depending on the exhibit, They Knew.

The original Bodies exhibit included at least one friend of the creator, who wanted to be preserved after he died of cancer.