Far from the Madding Crowd, which depicts the brutal reality of Victorian rural life, has been slapped with a content warning by the University of Warwick.
The sculpture, a six-metre-high stack of cantilevered steel blocks, is called Alert and is is meant to resemble a person squatting down not a man exposing himself.
History students at Manchester Metropolitan University will now be alerted to the potentially graphic content in a translation of the Miracles of the Hand of St James.
University dons have slapped a trigger warning on the heroic story of England s patron saint as the legend could prove upsetting and offensive to today s university students.