Ever since, probably in 1965, at the end of the Dark Age of "in loco parentis", as a freshman at Yale, I saw the little picture of this sculpture in Jansen's "History of Art", it has struck me as the most erotic artwork anywhere. I am not generally sexually attracted to males (certainly not to Michelangelo's famous ham-fisted David!) but this sculuture looks like an exception. Maybe it's as female looking as a male can be? The pose is decadent, with David seductiively posing over the head of the slain Goiiath. Petite and mortal death together?