Modern Living: Apres le Bain, or Aimez-Voux Lady Godiva?

Victorian gentlemen, rustled and bustled at by ladies in swathes of outer material and nether armor, paid handsome prices for paintings of unclad women in voluptuous tangles, with titles like A Nude Woman or Youth on the Prow and Pleasure at the Helm, and a barroom without a nude was naked indeed. But today the naked lady—or bits and pieces of her—is filling the advertising columns and editorial pages of the fashion magazines, general magazines and even family newspapers.

Fresh from the bath, bending callipygously to dry her toes, she sells bath oil. Back turned and naked from the waist, she demonstrates...

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