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[dandyads]

yess.. turkey based censorship lives!

but seriously why all the naked ladies in VARNISH ads?

[baron-waste.livejournal.com]

It's Art™.  That's what it is.  Who could object to edifying highbrow Art™?

- Me, I dig her Vulcan eyebrows.

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

I remember the day my art teacher explained the difference between nude and naked and I was like, whoa!

[baron-waste.livejournal.com]

What was it?

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

The difference is mostly in the usage. Naked has negative connotations whereas nude is more positive. Naked suggests erotic and offensiveness. A model not posing is naked, when they are posing they are nude. I had a lot of problems looking at the models and his definition helped me get over the mental block.

[ponitacupcake.livejournal.com]

Mine was like you will see WRINKLES! AND VEINS! AND FOLDS.

She got us a fat lady who had folds.

Then I had a male live drawing teacher who mostly got young petite women (and alternately a dude).

I ended up drawing a lot of nudes of different types, interesting bodies.

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

Anatomy was my favourite class :D We had lots of seniors who were all so visually interesting.

[ponitacupcake.livejournal.com]

:D Life drawing is funnn

[ponitacupcake.livejournal.com]

I love her face! Is very Vulvan

[ponitacupcake.livejournal.com]

VULCAN dammit, I mean Vulcan

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

Hee!

[memnet.livejournal.com]

but seriously why all the naked ladies in VARNISH ads?

Been wondering that myself.

[rejectomorph]

It was mostly guys who bought varnish.

A lot of companies selling stuff primarily to men also put out cheesecake calendars. I'm a bit surprised to see a nude in a 1939 ad, though. By the time I was a kid in the 1950s cheesecake had pretty much reverted to bathing suits, and I'd thought that the re-prudeing of America after the libertinism of the 1920s had been completely accomplished by 1939.

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One of the early Tarzan movies (made in the 1930's) has Jane swimming nude.

https://youtu.be/WdhBRRkNvts

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Pre-Hays code movies could be quite daring, but the nude swimming scene had to be cut from Tarzan and His Mate before it was granted a Production Code Administration seal. In his book Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, Thomas Patrick Doherty surmises that MGM included the scene as a red herring, believing that it was so outrageous a violation that the censors would focus all their attention on it and give a pass to other, less blatant but still risqué scenes of Tarzan and Jane cavorting in skimpy outfits. As Doherty points out, Johnny Weismuller was the principle sex object in the Tarzan films, the advertising for which was aimed primarily at women who, in those days, bought most of the movie tickets. Maureen O'Sullivan's T&A were sacrificed to morality, but Weismuller's tasteful side-butt shots prevailed throughout the movie.

[bib-specialist.livejournal.com]

Which magazines was this in?

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