Man of Sorrows
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- "Ecce Homo, "Behold the man." Man of Sorrows (c. 1525) by Flemish artist Maerten van Heemskerck is one of several arresting images of Jesus with an erection to be found in Steinberg's monograph [The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and Modern Oblivion, 1983, Leo Steinberg]. Some images even suggest an erection on the man crucified on the cross. There is no surviving image of Jesus engaged in sexual intercourse, but the erection clearly tells us that he was fully capable of such an act. "The humanation of God entails, along with mortality, his assumption of sexuality," Steinberg wrote, resting his case. Wilhelm Reich made exactly the same argument in The Murder of Christ, where he presented Christ as the supreme expression of the fully embodied life-force (eros, orgone) and male exemplar of orgasmic potency. If Steinberg is correct, Reich's concept of a virile-vital Christ would have been totally acceptable to many Christians in the former times."John Lamb Lash[1]
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