Body Worlds Opens in London as Expert Questions Consent for Sexualised Body Poses

A BODY WORLDS exhibition that features real human remains heads to London this week, but questions over whether donors gave consent for their bodies to be displayed in sexualised poses (Credit: The New York Public Library/Unsplash)

A BODY WORLDS exhibition featuring real human remains is heading to London this week amid renewed questions over whether donors gave sufficiently informed consent for their bodies to be displayed in sexualised poses.

The debate follows the Sydney presentation of BODY WORLDS: The Anatomy of Happiness, where anatomy expert Dr Joyce El-Haddad questioned whether signing a donation form necessarily meant donors understood the full range of ways their remains could later be displayed.