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March 12, 2009
A Lack Of Modesty
 People who yearn for old-fashioned public decency might be surprised to talk to historian Angela McShane-Jones at the University of Warwick. In her studies of 17th-century ballads--cheaply printed popular songs bought and sold like today's CDs--she found that the accompanying illustrations (above) often contained images of bare-breasted women. The perception of the bosom was quite different at the time, she says: "You see busty women representing innocence just as often as fallen ladies. And women of the court clearly had no modesty about showing their nipples."It seems to me that knowing obscenity when you see it is very dependent on the age you live in. Me? I look forward to the return of the purity in dress styles so prevalent in Oliver Cromwell's time. Of course the American Bikini is not a bad substitute. We get not only breasts but bare arms, legs, and midriffs as well. Not to mention the occasional camel toe. So there are compensations. Cross Posted at Power and Control posted by Simon on 03.12.09 at 04:38 PM
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I have a CD called "The Art of the Baudy Song" and it's a doozie. Donna B. · March 12, 2009 07:54 PM Hmmm, musicians and sex. Some pairings (pun intended) never go out of style. BackwardsBoy · March 13, 2009 08:54 AM I know that CD! One of my favorite canons is on it... "'Tis Women makes us love, 'tis love that makes us sad; 'tis sadness makes us drink, and drinking makes us mad." I am not real thrilled with the ubiquity of the bikini... most of the women wearing them really shouldn't (just as most of the men who wear speedos really shouldn't). It is not nearly as flattering for most peoples' bodies as a one-piece would be, and certainly not as flattering as most women apparently imagine them to be. John S. · March 13, 2009 10:12 AM Post a comment
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Seriously, though, as a mom of three, let me tell you how strange it is to see these appendages go from "sexy" to "useful" - not just in my own mind but in the minds of everyone around me. No matter how much I prop 'em up (and after three kids, propping is NOT optional). It was in some ways more of a body-image wakeup call than the pregnancies themselves, since my halcyon days of not gaining weight by looking at a Hershey's Kiss were in the time when the abdomen wasn't much of a sex symbol.
Sigh.