I visited a neat exhibit a few days ago, Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds 3.

whole bodies plastinated, most stripped of their skin and with various features highlighted.

Aside from a really excellent anatomy lesson, the exhibit demonstrates the effects of obesity (really gross sections of obese people with fat, not only drooping off their abdomens, but infused throughout their bodies) and smoking (black lung). I'm ever so glad I've never smoked, and I'm fairly thin - same 29" waist as in high school.

More relevant to this board, I also found the genitals interesting. The penises were left pretty much as they are except the outer skin was removed. With no abdominal tissue, they're longer than we're used to. And sans skin, there is no scrotum encasing the testes, which also hang quite far from the crotch without the abdominal tissue. The cords to them hang from high up in the abdominal cativity and go through the pelvic bone, perhaps 6" above the crotch. There were also good specimens of plastinated genitals and reproductive organs, including the prostate gland and bladder.

Where do I find this exhibit? Many years ago (when I last visited), there was a sliced man displayed in the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. He had been frozen and then sliced into horizontal cross-sections about 1/2 inch thick. His penis and testicles were in multiple pieces as a result.

Kangan (imported) wrote: Mon Jan 08, 2007 2:32 pm Where do I find this exhibit? Many years ago (when I last visited), there was a sliced man displayed in the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. He had been frozen and then sliced into horizontal cross-sections about 1/2 inch thick. His penis and testicles were in multiple pieces as a result.

These displays are not frozen, but rather they are plastinated. The show has been touring the country for a while. It recently spent a few months at the Science Museum of Minnesota in St Paul. Fascinating.

The exhitit was in Toronto for quite some time too and I found it incredibly interresting. It really is an excellent educational experience. I learned so much from that day. I highly recommend it to everyone!