Australia, the home of sharks, drunks and dead sex.

The couple, part of Gunther von Hagens’ exhibition The Cycle of Life, is the “low point in his tastelessness”, Michael Braun, culture expert from the conservative CDU party, said..
Von Hagens said his copulating couples show the sexual act in “bracing clarity”.

The exhibits, of four “consenting donors”, are in a separate room accessible only to over-16s.The exhibition “offers a deep understanding of the human body, the biology of reproduction, and the nature of sexuality”.

The dead bodies are plasticised, a process invented by von Hagens involving skinning bodies to display the naked muscles, nerves and tendons underneath, and preserving them with a synthetic resin.

Van Hagens is no stranger to controversy and his many critics accuse him of deliberately shocking people in order to gain publicity, rather than furthering science as he claims.

In 2002 he conducted Britain’s first public autopsy in 170 years, despite the risk of arrest.

Three years ago he opened a factory-cum-museum in eastern Germany manufacturing “plastinated” sections of cadavers to supply researchers and medical students and charging visitors to watch the process.

They say art is in the eyes of the beholder, sorry, but this beholder finds nothing artistic in what he has done.  Personally, he sounds more like a pervert than an artist.