This is so strange. It made me chuckle. It seems like, most of the time, as @galenkp mentioned, a sex shop would use the female form to advertise. There is something sacred about male genitalia. In most countries it is hidden most of the time, while this is not necessarily the case for female nudity. I was discussing this with a friend the other day. When I go to the swimming pool, although there is a family change room, frequently, there are little boys who are over the age where they are officially allowed in the women's change room running around like little madmen around the naked women. I asked my friend (who is male and also goes swimming) whether there are also little girls over the age of five whose daddies take them to the men's change room. I was unsurprised to hear that there are not. He has never seen such a thing. It is not that men here don't take their daughters swimming. Rather, if their daughters are over a certain age and cannot change their clothes by themselves, the men seem to feel it is right to take them to the family change room. This is what leads me to believe that there is something sacred about male genitalia. Little boys seeing naked women is okay whereas little girls seeing naked men is not okay. An unwritten rule. I don't really mind all the crazy, loud little boys running around the ladies' change room except that it gets crowded and also, sometimes, they feel a burning need to comment on the naked ladies they see, which seems extremely rude in my opinion.
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I'm not sure in other countries but a statue like this, an advertisement like this, would probably not be permitted here...Also, small girls running around in a male changeroom would not be permitted, or acceptable either, dressed or not. Political correctness and all.
Here, in Canada, children under the age of five are allowed in either changeroom. However, there is always a unisex family changeroom available also. While women violate the "under five" rule all the time, bringing older boys into the ladies' room, the reverse doesn't happen, and I feel it is a weird double standard.
I don't think there is inherently anything wrong with male or female nudity, but if there are little boys in the ladies' room, why not little girls in the men's room? It's somewhat moot. Personally, as a little girl, I was happy my father trusted me to change in the ladies' room on my own even when I was under five. I don't think I would have enjoyed the men's room.
In some parts of Canada, such a statue might be tolerated. My province of Alberta is not one of them! Lol. People would write very strongly worded letters of protest indeed.
It's interesting how different laws are across the world.
It is. I try to be sensitive to the multicultural nature of this and other platforms. Sometimes, I probably do better than others.
It's hard to know what's right and wrong in this regard as society's are so different and political correctness has spiralled out of control. I think being courteous and polite in general is a good way to begin.