This site is filthy!

[swanson_eyes]

...or at least the internet provider furnished by the mall thinks so. Site is blocked and I keep sending reports that it is not, in fact, inappropriate material.

Seriously, I have no idea how it got put into that category. :eusa_doh: :eusa_clap

 

[Bushman]

Those naughty, naughty hats! They're far too risque for this day and age!

 

[scotrace]

Must be the men's jammies.

 

[tonyb]

****, on this site you can't even say ****! I've found racier content on the Focus on the Family website.

Maybe they have it confused with the Fan Dancer Lounge?

 

[LizzieMaine]

Hey, we deleted the "Show Us Your Vintage Pron" thread. What more do they want??

 

[tonyb]

Maybe y'all got some hoochie-coochie goin' on over there in the lingerie department. I wouldn't know about any of that stuff, though. A fellow who dares wander over that direction is bound to get cooties or something.

 

[ingineer]

Wasn't me i even censored the mermaid on my cane.

 

[kokopelli]

Hey, we deleted the "Show Us Your Vintage Pron" thread. What more do they want??

There's a secret password, right?

 

[Stearmen]

I blame this man! Just look at his dirty, filthy, fedora! Pure x rated.

 

[GHT]

Those naughty, naughty hats! They're far too risque for this day and age!

You are so right, and here's the proof.

 

[Frunobulax]

You are so right, and here's the proof.

HAHA!

Wait, there's a Fan Dancer Lounge?

 

[Inkstainedwretch]

It's all those pre-Code movies.

 

[Fading Fast]

It's all those pre-Code movies.

It's funny, but a few of them like "Tarzan and His Mate" are truly racy, with full-body nudity (Hedy Lamar did one like that too), but most of the "naughty" stuff is implied and happens off screen, it's just that it is acknowledged and talked about that makes them so modern compared to the movies made after the code was enforced. It also shows how much better - in most cases - not showing but implying can be for some things - something modern directors and producers have no feel for.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

It must be the 'hats survivng the elements' thread..................all those dripping lids....... pure hat porn.

 

[GHT]

It's funny, but a few of them like "Tarzan and His Mate" are truly racy, with full-body nudity (Hedy Lamar did one like that too.)

Oh no, not Hedy Lamarr naked! She's a hero of mine, not just a pretty face but an eminent physicist too. She it was, along with George Antheil, who cracked the frequency code for single use gadgets. Next time you use the TV remote or your car keyfob remote, say a thank you to Hedy. (She's a cracking figure,) that's figuring things out, what did you think I meant?

 

[Fading Fast]

Oh no, not Hedy Lamarr naked! She's a hero of mine, not just a pretty face but an eminent physicist too. She it was, along with George Antheil, who cracked the frequency code for single use gadgets. Next time you use the TV remote or your car keyfob remote, say a thank you to Hedy. (She's a cracking figure,) that's figuring things out, what did you think I meant?

That is the movie and it does show you that "clothing optional" wasn't invented in the '60s. I read this book (image below) when it came out a few years back - a fun, short bio of her with an emphasis on the invention you reference. I don't know if I'm just projecting what I know, but she always seems intelligent in the roles she plays even if the character isn't (there's something thoughtful and smart in her delivery, her eyes, her pauses):

 

[LizzieMaine]

That's an excellent book -- read and enjoyed it several years ago.

As for public nudity, it was more common in the Era than people realize. There were quite a few "girlie shows" featuring topless performers at the New York World's Fair in 1939, and some of these show up in the widely-circulated Kodachrome home movies taken by Philip Medicus. They provide interesting documentation for what was considered erotic by Joe Fairgoer, as well as evidence that the bust sizes of young women in the Era tended to run on the small side.

Even earlier, topless chorus lines were commonplace in "sophisticated" Broadway revues in the twenties. Fred Allen once wrote about his experiences in one such revue, where he came out to deliver a monologue immediately after a highly-charged routine danced by such a chorus -- he called his routine "an antidote to sex."

 

[Fading Fast]

That's an excellent book -- read and enjoyed it several years ago.

As for public nudity, it was more common in the Era than people realize. There were quite a few "girlie shows" featuring topless performers at the New York World's Fair in 1939, and some of these show up in the widely-circulated Kodachrome home movies taken by Philip Medicus. They provide interesting documentation for what was considered erotic by Joe Fairgoer, as well as evidence that the bust sizes of young women in the Era tended to run on the small side.

Even earlier, topless chorus lines were commonplace in "sophisticated" Broadway revues in the twenties. Fred Allen once wrote about his experiences in one such revue, where he came out to deliver a monologue immediately after a highly-charged routine danced by such a chorus -- he called his routine "an antidote to sex."

Did they "run on the small size" as you noted or is our standard distorted by breast enhancement surgery?

As it is hard not to notice all the very thin (not just weight, but bone structure) women that are very well endowed today, I think our entire view of "normal" is being distorted.

IMHO, it is sad that women do this (with absolute exceptions for reasons of reconstruction from injury, treatments, etc.).

While I'll lean to putting the responsibility on each individual who chooses to do this, I bet Lizzie will sight a book that shows how "The Boys in Marketing" planned it all out. And they might have, but still, (other than some one-off crazy exceptions) nobody ever forced a person to undergo surgery - it is an individual choice, but I completely get the social and cultural pressure is there.

 

[LizzieMaine]

The Boys from Pornography started the trend toward pneumaticness, and the rest of the Boys simply followed their lead. Ariel Levy discusses this at length.

None of the women in the 1939 World's Fair footage are well-endowed by modern standards, and some of them are startlingly flat-chested. I think a big part of this has to do with malnutrition in their youth -- puberty was actually delayed by malnutrition in many cases during the thirties.

 

[Fading Fast]

The Boys from Pornography started the trend toward pneumaticness, and the rest of the Boys simply followed their lead. Ariel Levy discusses this at length.

None of the women in the 1939 World's Fair footage are well-endowed by modern standards, and some of them are startlingly flat-chested. I think a big part of this has to do with malnutrition in their youth -- puberty was actually delayed by malnutrition in many cases during the thirties.

Interesting and I'm sure correct. That said, up until the late '80s - and you can see this in movies and TV shows - small chested women were not a rarity in entertainment. And, overall (there were and are always exceptions), many thin, small boned women also had small breast - then breast enhancement took off - and the large majority of women on TV / in movies, etc., magically had large or medium sized breast regardless of their frames.

It is what it is, but I think it is a shame as it undermines the inherent beauty and variety that nature bequeathed us and it creates an unnatural standard that impacts many young women.