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The Famous Vagina Painting That Facebook Doesn't Want You to See

Adrian Chen · 04/13/11 02:16PM

Gustave Courbet's 1886 oil painting of a naked woman's lower half, The Origin of the World, hangs in Paris' Musee d'Orsay. But it is not welcome on the hallowed walls of Facebook. Facebook has abruptly canceled at least three accounts after users posted the painting, and art connoisseurs are fuming.