In Catholicism, The Virgin Mary can be considered pure and virtuous through the lack of contamination involved in her childbirth, it presents us with the idealised asexual mother in the figure of virgin Mary whose womb bears fruit yet still remains chaste and intact. Her counterpart, Eve is seen as a temptress whose sexuality led to the fall of man and to sin being bestowed onto the rest of of human race. Altered Madonnas raises the issue of the sacredness of motherhood, and the desired purity of women’ by asking ‘How could masculinist culture celebrate the madonna as a mother while erasing her difference and her sexuality?