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y’all ever seen this??!! 😬 

Stumbled on something cool and weird, figured I’d pass it along here too...

Victor Noir’s grave in Père - Lachaise cemetery by Patrick Magaud, 1984. Noir is perhaps more famous for his death and grave than his work. He was a journalist who was shot dead; the grave consists of a full-sized bronze statue of the man lying down as if he had just been shot.

The statue became a fertility symbol - the story says those who kiss the statue on the lips, leave a flower in Victor’s hat, and rub the genital area will find themselves with enhanced fertility, a great sex life, or a husband within one year!! 😁 

The lips and trousers’ bulge on the grave are noticeably shiny from people kissing and rubbing them 😅 

In 2004, a fence was built around the grave to prevent women from touching the statue, but after many protests, it was taken down.

ok banger

I will happily be a symbol of fertility in the afterlife 😅🤣