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...Enterprising publishers quickly found ways to circumvent the Comstock Act and similar strictures. At the beginning of the 20th century, the magazine Vanity Fair-no relation to today's glossy-depicted women of loose morals wearing men's trousers, and in the process earned a reputation as "the raciest thing around," according to Dian Hanson's The History of Men's Magazines, Vol. 1. As Hanson notes, the 1920s also marked the debut of Dawn magazine, a publication concerned with the erotic intersection of "eugenics, nudism and figure studies." By the end of that decade and into the 1930s...
...itself. Many of the small kiosks lining the souk sell clothes; often, underwear sets are hung just below rows of more traditional outfits like sequined belly-dance costumes. The underwear usually goes unnoticed by visitors, which is a tragedy, for Syria makes the rest of the world's raciest lingerie seem staid by comparison. "In Syria lingerie is manufactured by very conservative religious families for a religiously conservative clientele," says Halasa. Where frank sexuality and skimpy outerwear are commonplace, such as in the secular West, there is no need to "manufacture lingerie as racy and inventive as this," she theorizes...
...audience. It also featured a crotch-grabbing rap star and a dance routine that would have got its participants arrested not long ago. Then there were the commercials, whose content included a flatulent horse, a fight between grandparents, and enough spots for impotence medications to raise the Titanic. (The raciest ad I found in my old copy of Playboy was for satin bed sheets and pillowcases, "as used in the Imperial and Bridal Suites of the Conrad Hilton.") And lest you think there's something special about football that encourages vulgarity, USA Today last week had a front-page story...
...meeting with her phone partner "next Tuesday," under guise of a visit to her acupuncturist. True? Who cares, when 40,000 Britons paid $22 each on the first day to call a special phone line and listen to the tape? Three days after this bombshell, the Sun, Britain's raciest tabloid, announced it possessed another juicy phone transcript, this one of a conversation between Fergie and Prince Andrew in January 1990. During this call, the paper claimed, the duchess said she wanted to escape the marriage and go off to Argentina, where her mother lives after bolting from her father...
...Kinky Girl Scout to practice knots. Your rope or mine?" NR's personals are notably chaste, but so are those in most other magazines. The emphasis is on "traditional values," on "long-term relationships" and "nest building." The sexual revolution has cooled down to a domestic room temperature. The raciest item might call for a woman with "Dolly Parton-like figure." One ad in Los Angeles stated: "Branflake patent holder tired of money and what it can buy seeks intellectual stimulation from big-bosomed brunette. Photo please." The Village Voice not long ago rejected the language...