Gazing down over Piccadilly Circus the naked angel statue with bow and arrows of Anteros. Built around 1893 as a monument to the philanthropic 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, it created a bit of controversy for the puritanical Christians at the time who felt it was vulgar. In an attempt to appease them it was renamed the Angel of Christian Charity.
These days it is generally referred to as Eros, the frivolous brother of Anteros
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