In the end it was just too kinky for the Louvre.
The world's most visited museum shied away from displaying a sculpture that some have labeled as too sexually explicit, but the nearby Pompidou Centre on Tuesday decided the world needed to decide for itself.
Standing 12 meters tall, "Domestikator," a creation from Dutch artist Joep van Lieshout, was originally expected to stand in the 13th century Tuileries Gardens adjacent to Paris' Louvre museum as part of a contemporary art fair this month.
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