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More than 90 years after Marcel Duchamp famously presented a urinal as a work of art, the trend continues – and continues to draw controversy.

This time, the fuss is about a urinal sculpted in the likeness of former President George W. Bush.

Sculptor Clark Sorensen produces handmade, homemade pieces in his studio/garage in the Mission District section of San Francisco.

“It started kind of as a joke,” said Sorensen. “I was working in porcelain, and I thought, ‘what can I do with a urinal?’”

He has produced urinals in the shape of orchids, lilies and morning glories. But the design that has people talking is “George W. Flush,” a likeness of former President Bush with an oversized head and a wide open mouth.

In comments on a story on cbsnews.com, the Bush urinal drew strong reaction.

“This is in poor taste and disrespectful no matter your opinion. What has happened to civilization? Why is everyone so filled with hate?” one poster wrote.

“Inappropriate no matter if you hate guy or not,” another poster wrote. “This is going down a bad path.”

But not all the comment posters disapproved.

“Here here! Right on! Well said! Dead on! Yet an ugly mental image,” one comment read.

The urinal also drew strong reaction on Monsters & Money in the Morning.

“What if somebody invented one about Obama? Would it be hanging in a San Francisco toilet?” said co-host Mike North. “I would say no.”

The one-of-a-kind urinal is not installed in any men’s room. It is on display at a gallery art show in San Francisco.

Sorensen has also designed a urinal that is painted to show the stock market going down the drain, and another one that reads “The World According to Bush” and displays the continents swirling into the drain holes.

Creativity in restroom fixture design has drawn complaints and controversy on plenty of other occasions.

In 2004, Virgin Atlantic Airlines was planning to install bright red urinals shaped like mouths at its business class terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. But the plans were scrapped after a flurry of complaints, according to published reports. Two years later, a McDonald’s in the Netherlands removed urinals of the same design in its men’s room after a tourist complained.

Meilke van Schijndel is the Dutch designer who created the urinals, titled “Kisses.” She said they were supposed to represent silly cartoon mouths, and not women’s mouths as some had concluded, according to the Web site Expatica.com.

In another case in Changchun City, China, a restaurant was widely criticized for keeping live ornamental fish in the trough urinal in its men’s room.

As for Sorensen, he tells CBS 2 sister station KPIX-TV that he sells pieces around the world, not so much in the United States.

“The U.S. might be a little uptight compared to Europe. I think you have to have a good sense of humor. I don’t know why. That’s my theory,” said Sorensen.

He also has a whole line of sinks, and the moment he’s flushed with success.

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