Navel and vulva

Dealing with the fascination emanating from this female statuette, we see that except among experts, the Venus of Willendorf has been divorced from its historic context and has assumed an independent existence. To physicians, it has become a symbol for pathological obesity, and to obese people, it has become an evidence for the beauty of overweight. Feminists consider it the First Mother turned into stone in support of the matriarchal theory. For the study of prehistoric art, it is one of the most important examples of the artistic work of the Old Stone Age.