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No sex for dead bodies


Body Worlds' 'The Cycle of Life' exhibition is one of several around the world that show skinless corpses with muscles and organs revealed, in life-like, often theatrical positions. -- ST PHOTO: CAROLINE CHIA

SINGAPORE - A CONTROVERSIAL exhibition charting life from conception to old age using cadavers has come to Singapore this week - but without the copulating corpses that caused an uproar in Germany.

Body Worlds' 'The Cycle of Life' exhibition is one of several around the world that show skinless corpses with muscles and organs revealed, in life-like, often theatrical positions. The specimens are from people who have agreed to donate their bodies for educational purposes.

The exhibitions, visited by some 28 million people around the world, have been criticised by some people as unacceptable, with German politicians taking special offence at 'The Cycle of Life' exhibit which opened in Berlin earlier this year because it included copulating cadavers.

These corpses, however, are not on display in Singapore. What's on show is a flat cross-section of two copulating bodies that only shows their internal organs.

'Sensational display of sexual activity does not go with our theme,' Chew Tuan Chiong, chief executive of the Singapore Science Centre which is hosting the exhibit, told Reuters.

'It is for educational and science study, and there is not much controversy for using real human body specimens in this exhibition for us,' he said, adding that several schools had brought students to see the exhibition. -- REUTERS

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