The Silent Orgy

Map of Western Europe showing main distribution
of Romanesque (pink) and post-Romanesque (green) figures.
Note Romanesque outliers on Gotland (Sweden), Corsica and Sicily.
There are also two further Romanesque outliers
in Western Scotland, and one on Orkney.

Violet shading indicates areas of concentration of Romanesque figues.

FRENCH ROMANESQUE FIGURES

Agen Lot-et-Garonne (male)

Archingeay Charente-Maritime

Aregno Corsica (male thornpuller)

Arthous Landes

Banyuls Pyrénées-Orientales (male)

Barret Charente

Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne Corrèze (homosexual monks ?)

Béceleuf Deux-Sèvres

Bommiers Indre

Bonnesvalyn Aisne

Bordeaux (Sainte-Croix) Gironde

Bords Charente (male)

Bougneau Charente-Maritime

Brioude Haute-Loire (males)

Bruyères-et-Montbérault Aisne

Buère-Allichamps Cher (broken male)

Caen (Saint-Etienne) Calvados

Cambia Corsica (males)

Camiac-et-Saint-Denis Gironde (upside-down male masturbator)

Carennac Lot

Cavanac Aude (tongue-pulling female & ithyphallic wolf)

Chaix Vendé

Chambonas Ardèche (anal exhibitionist and tonguesticker)

Champagnolles Charente-Maritime

Chartres Eure-et-Loir (male)

Châteaumeillant Cher (coupling couple)

Chouday Indre (vulva-puller with serene expression)

Contré Charente-Maritime (acrobatic)

Courpiac Gironde (couple)

Deyrançon Deux-Sèvres

Droiturier Allier (male ape)

Esquay-Notre-Dame Calvados (lichen-covered corbels, on apse of restored church, which are difficult to interpret)

Figeac Lot (male being swallowed by hellish beast)

Fontaine-Henry Calvados, plus beast

Fontaines d'Ozillac Charente-Maritime (acrobatic mouth-puller)

Givrezac Charente-Maritime

Graimbouville Seine-Maritime (male)

Guitinières Charente-Maritime

Haux Gironde (male)

Jaligny-sur-Besbre Allier (grotesque atlas-figure displaying buttocks; compare with another Auvergnat atlas at La Godivelle)

La Charité-sur-Loire Nièvre (tongue-sticking simian)

La Libarde Gironde (male canid)

Lorignac Charente (microphallic male)

Loupiac Gironde (male genitals

Lugaignac Gironde (male)

Lunac Aveyron

Lupersat Creuse (male and female)

Lussac-et-Nontronneau Dordogne(acrobatic male)

LusignanVienne

Mailhat Puy de Dôme (circumcised ape)

Marigny Allier

Melle (Saint-Savinien) Deux-Sèvres
Melle (Saint-Savinien) (male)
Melle (Saint-Hilaire) (Luxuria)

Merlévenez Morbihan (megaphallic thorn-puller)

Moissac Tarn-et-Garonne (Luxuria)

Monbos Dordogne (with wolf)

Monfrin Gard

Montbron Charente

Montmoreau-Saint-Cybard Charente (male)

Montmorillon Vienne (Luxuria)

Montmorillon Vienne (Luxuria)

Montpeyroux Aveyron (male beast drinking from a bucket)

Montvert Cantal

Ôo Hautes-Pyrénées

Poitiers (Saint-Hilaire) Vienne

Passirac Charente

Plaimpied Cher (broken male)

Poursay-Garnaud Charente-Maritime (megaphallic musician)

Puypéroux Charente

Rabastens Tarn

Rânes Orne

Reignac Charente (mouthpulling female acrobat)

Revest du Bion Alpes de H-P (a completely abstract, uniquely vegetal female with deep vulva)

Rivière Indre-et-Loire (upside-down male)

Ruffec Charente (female and broken male)

Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val Tarn-et-Garonne

Saint-Contest Calvados

Saint-Denis Paris (crypt: crude squatting female roughed up by ecclesiastics)

Saint-Etienne-de-Lisse Gironde (male)

Saint-Fort-sur-Gironde Charente-Maritime

Saint-Front-sur-Nizonne Dordogne

Saint-Gaulthier Indre (quoin-corbel)

Saint-Jean-de-Côle Dordogne (megaphallic acrobat)

Saint-Léger-de-MontbrillaisVienne

Saint-Léger-en-Pons Charente

Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat Haute-Vienne (male)

Saint-Loup-Hors Calvados

Saint-Palais Gironde

Saint-Privat-des-Prés Dordogne (mouthpulling female, restored)

Saint-Quantin-de-Rançanne[s] Charente-Maritime

Saint-Quentin-de-Baron Gironde (megaphallic male)

Sainte-Marie-du-Mont Manche (frog-headed female)

Sainte-Mère-Eglise Manche

churches in the Salers area of the Cantal

Savennières Maine-et-Loire

Semur-en-Brionnais Saône-et-Loire

Sens Yonne (Luxuria without snakes)

Sévignacq-Thèze Pyrénées-Atlantiques

Targon Gironde

Tesson Charente-Maritime (pair of acrobats)

Vézelay Yonne

Vienne-en-Bessin Calvados

Villedieu-sur-Indre Indre (male)

Villenave d'OrnonGironde (female acrobat and male)

VinaxCharente-Maritime

FRENCH POST-ROMANESQUE FIGURES

Caussade Tarn-et-Garonne

Châtelaudren Côtes d'Armor (roof-boss: male with tenoned penis missing)

Cleyrac Charente

Jersey Channel Islands

Monpazier Dordogne

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of
post-Romanesque Irish
'sheela-na-gigs'

BRITISH ROMANESQUE FIGURES

SWEDISH ROMANESQUE FIGURES

Vänge Gotland (male thornpuller)

Väte Gotland (Luxuria as a Witch ?)

BRITISH POST-ROMANESQUE
FIGURES (mostly 14th-15th centuries)

Ancaster Lincolnshire (male and female )

Ampney-St-Pete r Gloucestershire

Ansford Somerset (male)

Ashbourne Derbyshire (female discovered in 2016)

Aston Somerville Worcestershire (simian male[s])

Atherington Devon (tubby and jolly male devil)

Ballidon Derbyshire (acrobatic female on font)

Bilton-in-Ainsty Yorkshire

Brant Broughton Lincolnshire (male self-fellator)

Bray Berkshire

Buckland Buckinghamshire

Church Langton Leicestershire (hermaphrodite ?)

Church StrettonShropshire

Cynghordy Carmarthenshire (ambiguous figures)

Copgrove Yorkshire

Croft-on-Tees Durham

Denton Lincolnshire (feet-to-ears self-fellater)

Easthorpe (Colchester Museum) Essex

Egremont Cumbria

Ewerby Lincolnshire (male acrobat with realistic penis)

Grantham Lincolnshire (male and female)

Haddon Hall Derbyshire

Hereford, All Saints (male acrobat on a roof-beam)

HoldgateShropshire

Horninghold Leicestershire (male feet-to-ears self-fellator on 14th century tower)

Kildonan Isle of Eigg, Argyll

Iona Argyll (two females and a male)

Jersey Channel Islands

Lammas Norfolk

Litchborough Northamptonshire (crude megaphallic male)

Llandrindod Radnorshire

Lowesby Oxfordshire (male workman with modest but realistic penis)

Margam Glamorgan

Moulton Suffolk (male and female)

Oakham Leicestershire (scrotal male)

Painswick Gloucestershire (male)

Penmon Anglesey

Pennington Cumbria

Ripon Yorkshire (clothed male on wooden canopy of stalls)

Rodel Isle of Harris, Scotland (male; female)

St Ives Huntingdonshire (now Cambridgeshire)

South Tawton Devon (roof-boss)

Tawstock Devon (impossible homosexual scene on roof-boss)

Taynuilt Argyll, Scotland

Tickhill Castle Yorkshire

Tilton-on-the-Hill Leicestershire (scrotal male)

Tugby Leicestershire (squatting female on tower revealing nothing)

Walberswick Suffolk (ithyphallic, probably masturbating, mouth-puller with breasts)

Welbourn Lincolnshire (late sgraffito in porch)

Wells cathedral Avon (broken ?Luxuria in a niche)

Wiggenhall (St Mary the Virgin) Norfolk (male, mouth-pulling water-spout)

Woodford Northamptonshire (male on tower)

Woodkirk Yorkshire

Wymondham Leicestershire (scrotal male on tower)

Marienhafe Ostfriesland

Zutphen Gelderland

PORTUGUESE POST-ROMANESQUE FIGURE

Matriz de Caminho Minho (a very Romanesque anal male on a late-15th century church)

SPANISH POST-ROMANESQUE FIGURE

Santiago de Compostela La Coruña (shawm-player on the 14th century Museo das Peregrinacions()

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Stanton St Quintin (Wiltshire)
photographed by John Harding
Note the three perforations:
umbilical, cunnic and anal.

YouTube video of
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Oloron-Sainte-Marie

click here for a list
of
post-Romanesque Irish
'sheela-na-gigs'