The Embrace is, everyone at least agrees, a striking new statue unveiled this weekend in the Boston Common that depicts the giant bronze arms of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King locked in a hug.
“The Embrace” Martin Luther King Jr. monument downtown is taking flak both for the purportedly pornographic appearance some angles give it and some of the aesthetic choices that went into its creation.
But then a video tweeted out by a TV reporter of a particularly unfortunate angle of the tarp coming off captured the raunchy imaginations of America, and a few different shots from other angles provided assorted other material for some guffaws. “The new Boston sculpture ‘honoring’ Dr. Martin Luther King and his wife, Coretta Scott King, looks more like a pair of hands hugging a beefy penis than a special moment shared by the iconic couple,” he wrote in the online magazine of, believe it or not, the less explicit of the two most popular sexual interpretations.
“And yes, I’ll say it. From another angle, the statue for real looks like one person is performing disembodied oral sex,” she added, giving voice to the most popular off-color interpretation of a different angle of the statue and continuing on to say that she doubts that that’s what MLK would want people thinking about on his birthday.
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