I have known a couple girls who could pee an arch like those statues but they are rare. Anatomically the boy statues make more sense visually.

What do you mean, why not little girls? How are little girls pissing in the water any more art than little boys pissing in it? :p

I have no idea.

But perhaps this Wiki entry might help you out.

Little boys are innocent and sometimes do pee outside, because they are little boys. I don’t think a statue of John Holmes with his hand on his tool whizzing in a park would go over well.

@woodcutter – they may make more sense visually but why would anyone want one in their garden, do they find it visually pleasing or art of some sort?

@Symbeline – I can’t find much art in either, but I just wondered why there are so many of one and none of the other? Yeah wiki tells the history but my question still stands. Unless you buy into one of those legends, why would anyone want one in their garden? Do they find it attractive or pleasing to their eye?

Could be the novelty of it all, like something one sees in an antique shop and it still works, why not?

@rooeytoo Yeah I get what you mean. It’s the best I could do for providing some bit of information. If it dates back to the Romans, there’s probably a lot of myth stuff involved. I don’t know if it’s relevant, but in ancient Rome, pedophilia was accepted and encouraged. :/

As to why people might like this in their gardens…well I denno, maybe they think it’s cute? Like cherubs spitting out water. Although vomiting in water isn’t much better, but the posture of a statue doing as such seems to signify something else entirely. Maybe it comes from the ancient pissing boys.

Whether it’s art or not, that’s too subjective for me to touch. XD If I could have a fountain of a decapitated Anne Boleyn spurting water from her neck and holding her severed head under her arm, it would rock. :D

@Symbeline – interesting mental image, heheheh. I guess to each their own!

If I have to have a peeing statue in my yard, I think I would rather have a regal dog such as an akita, lifting his leg on a fire hydrant! :-)

@woodcutter – since everyone does it I don’t quite get the novelty part, buy hey, you never know!

I wouldn’t mind having a squatting/peeing Sarah Palin statue. I’d put that in my front yard next to the Vote for (local Demomcrat) sign.

@FutureMemory – it would probably convince me to vote democratic! Then again, if you had a statue of Barrak in a similar situation, I would probably be convinced to vote republican!

It makes more sense then the water flowing from the ears :)
I just got this memory of going to my friend’s grandma’s house in high school. She was really old and she asked me to pour her a whiskey drink and add some water. The decanter was a little cherb boy peeing out the whiskey. Odd old lady

@Pele – gives new meaning to the phrase “Getting on the piss!” :-)

“If I have to have a peeing statue in my yard…. :-)”

If that’s a requirement in your neighborhood, then that’s an HOA I’d avoid. ;-)

I’m with you @Brian1946 !

I suppose it’s more aesthetically pleasing than a young virgin having her throat cut by a knife wielding barbarian, water cascading through her gaping wound….....only just though ;¬}

@ucme – I think that depends upon your personal taste, check out @Symbeline‘s answer above!

@rooeytoo Well now there’s a suprise, fancy @Symbeline favouring the macabre.
Myself i’d have naked nubile love nymphs splashing about the place, fun & frolics galore.

So the statues of little girls taking a dump don’t seem so weird.

Because they are too young to be sculpted as masturbating. : )

Maybe because little boys in Rome did this in public, while little girls did this in private.

There’s art of women spouting breast milk, though.

Dude, no clue. LOL
:)

O my! And what’s with the cherubs with their sheets slipping down to show their little buttox cracks??!

At one time, @mattbrowne, I could spout milk like a work of art. Truly! It was a little embarrassing, but artful.