So far as I can tell, the statuary here conveys several insistent public messages: making out is fun, war is  glamorous and sometimes cute, and somebody much smarter and harder-working than you is doing the thinking: have another cup of coffee. These are messages from another time, from Hapsburg time. They still echo. It is strange to live in a place where there is such a consistent monumental container, with consistent messages. 

The stuff about making out can be sinister: the objects of erotic attention are not always totally enthusiastic, and some of the pursuit statues are right next to the Schönbrunn maze, which would be a  place for all sorts of liberties.  One remembers the literary stories about peasant girls ruined by heartless aristocrats on a spree.

On the positive side, some people in Vienna know how to kiss. They do free demonstrations on the U-bahn. We in Minnesota should get them to make us instructional videos. We are primitive in that activity, at least in public. 

There's one other message, perhaps not intended. There are downsides to being a public figure; one may have to spend eternity holding one's pants up:

Also, if one sits for a bust on a grumpy day, one may spend a long time looking grumpy: