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baura
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Date: February 18, 2012 03:01PM
OnceMore Wrote:
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> Why not buy some prints of famous paintings that
> feature beautiful women?
Reminds me of the famous painting by Goya "La Maja Desnuda" of a nude woman laying on a bed. Back in the days of the blue-noses when people were being arrested for sending birth control information through the U.S. Mail the painting (which showed, *gasp*, pubic hair) was considered obscene and not allowed to be sent through the U.S. Mail.
However, in Spain it was issued as a postage stamp.
http://stamps.postbit.com/photos/philatelic-literature/stamp-goya-la-maja-desnuda-purple.htmlMormonism is a product of puritain New England. So overzealous modesty was codified into Mormonism at an early stage. I have always wondered if that had something to do with JS's polygamy. He was "like a God" to the Mormons and could get away with just about anything if he could make them think God was behind it. Maybe the puritanical approach made for too much "forbidden fruit" consciousness which lead to the polygamy revelation.