Growing up, being a nerd playing Dungeons & Dragons, the old Monster Manuals were full of creatures from mythology. It's funny how much of that stuff sticks with you.
there's a doorway somewhere near the city center with two female body stumps, severed at the waist
Good grief, they couldn't have just had a bathing suit painted on? It seems like some of the most misogynistic gestures come from women.
I'm impressed that we still have some bare-breasted statues in the center of Boston Common. We might be all about debauchery today, but this was ground zero for Puritanism, after all.