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Bernard Shaw illustrated this point by a description of the Victorian woman. She was a masterpiece of sex appeal. She was sex appeal from the top her head to the soles of her feet. She was clothed, of course, from head to feet; all clothes! Everything about her, except her cheeks and her nose was a guilty secret, a thing you had to guess at. All young men and boys then thrilled with the magic and mystery of the invisible world under those clothes. Shaw pointed out that on the other hand, ‘those actresses of the French stage who made a speciality of sex appeal never undressed themselves in public. I do not know how many petticoats they wore; but at any rate instead of exposing their persons they just gave you a little glimpse of what  looked like a dozen frilled pink petticoats round the ankles; and the effect was tremendous. The result was that the Victorian age was an exceedingly immoral age.’

Excerpted from”page number 129-130, of A philosophy for NEFA”