 However, a large sum of the riches gained from Hottentot's act comes from spectators who pay the Mother-Showman for private exhibitions so that they can feel her genitalia and buttocks.After a year of travelling in a cage from English town to town, Venus becomes the subject of a riot caused by her public indecency, whereupon she appears before the law in front of a court and is eventually released under the Court's pretence that "her show is part of God's great plan".Shortly before Venus's trial in front of the Court, the Baron Docteur's fascination in her was revealed, whereafter, he approaches the Mother-Showman to buy The Venus so as to study her Steatopygia and genitalia before and after her death.