When I was young and impressionable, the first picture of a naked woman I ever saw was the famous Marilyn Monroe calendar that was somewhere in the service bay or storage area of every filling station and auto shop in 1950’s America.
She was, according to studio publicity hacks and certain members of the Kennedy family, the sexiest woman alive, so imagine my amazement when I discovered that in that scandalous scene of Marilyn on the sidewalk grate she was wearing Granny Panties!
Like me, you may remember the picture like this
But an Associated Press photo – from a slightly different angle shows
I’m not upset – I never was that attracted to her anyway – but it does go to show that things have changed an awful lot in the last half century. Today, no self-respecting American woman under the age of 45 or so would be caught dead in underwear like that.
Lingerie that used to be available through Fredericks of Hollywood is now openly on sale at Sears and Wal-Mart. It is impossible to find a shopping mall of any size that doesn’t have a Victoria's Secret store.
And it is not just the USA, according to several stories on the internet, Muslim women in countries where the Mullahs enforce strict Sharia Law often go for erotic undies beneath their hajib and burqa. One article in Der Spiegel last year tells of a shop owner in Bahrain whose best seller is edible underwear.
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