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@LibrarianRA I've been weighing posting this myself. It's got a bit much crack for my "naughty but nice" image.
@GayOldTime I figure it’s been posted since 1940, and the fact that it’s not sexual, as much as it’s just honest nudity
@LibrarianRA @GayOldTime Historic levels of what is acceptable is interesting. I went to a silent movie showing of a paper-cut animation of Cinderella, so it had text on screen. It was rated G (in the UK) but from around 1940s or so.
Apparently it is 100% a-okay to call Cinderella's sister's whores and still get a G rating (and the shocked silence of all the parents around me when this came up on screen was priceless).
@LibrarianRA @GayOldTime I misremembered it is about 1:40 in, and basically calls Cinderella a slut (!?) https://archive.org/details/silent-aschenputtel-aka-cinderella
@Akki @LibrarianRA The word "slut" was considered less shocking and was used more lightly. Women would get called sluts over very minor things. So, in a way, little has changed.
@GayOldTime @Akki @LibrarianRA "Slut" was also used to mean someone who was dirty, sloppy or untidy. An old term for apron was "cover-slut." A woman who didn't keep a clean house, or a servant who didn't do her work, was called a "slut" on that basis alone.
@Vagrarian @GayOldTime @LibrarianRA Ahhhh I was wondering how Cinderella had any time for modern slut activities! This is like when I found out pets were named Smut because it was like, just a term for soot so black cats were named Smut.
Amazing how quickly we lose definitions of words.
(Edited from slug to slut lol)
@LibrarianRA Whether this is arousing is, of course, in the eye of the beholder. In the era when this was printed, there was an assumption that male bodies obviously cannot be sexual (to an assumed straight male audience), so there was a double standard about publishing male nudity.