This delightfully bizarre cartoon is one panel of six celebrating the arrival of spring and the renewed efforts of Cupid. Unfortunately, Cupid has various rivals and false pretenders with agendas of their own during the long winter. In this case, our favorite clystère theme is featured. Unfortunately, the anxieties mocked in this image are very much present for us today.
“And you, the disease-wasted cupid of people of analysis and science, people who, before a kiss, wipe their lips with carbolic acid, whose love is proportional to the drugs taken, I take leave of you as well.”
(Novyi Satirikon, Petrograd, 1915)
Sic Transit Pestilentia 