The culturally framed gesture of lifting the skirt or kilt
Copy of a Hellenistic Aphrodite Kallipygos at The Hermitage in St. Petersburg.
Anasyrma (Ancient Greek: ἀνάσυρμα) composed of ἀνά ana "up, against, back", and σύρμα syrma "a dragging motion"; plural: anasyrmata (ἀνασύρματα), also called anasyrmos (ἀνασυρμός),[1] is the gesture of lifting the skirt or kilt. It is used in connection with certain religious rituals, eroticism, and lewd jokes (see, for example, Baubo). The term is used in describing corresponding works of art.
Anasyrma may be a deliberately provocative self-exposing of one's naked genitals or buttocks. The famous example of the latter case is Aphrodite Kallipygos ("Aphrodite of the beautiful buttocks"). In other contexts, this gesture has an apotropaic character, that is, a means to ward off a supernatural enemy, or it may be a sign of mockery, analogous to mooning.
^Blackledge, Catherine (2003). The Story of V: A Natural History of Female Sexuality. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press. p. 12. ISBN 978-0813534558.
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