#prudish

[shironezuninja]

I think it’s perfectly normal for any female who’s stuck in an emotional moment and say, “Men are Idiots”. Even Rick and Morty received a disapproving glare from me a lot.

#layouts #screenshots #collages #texts #stickers #hobby #habit #therapeutic #therapy art #traumatized #prudish #feeling huffy #teenage mutant ninja turtles 2003 #tmnt 2003 #tmnt 2k3 #heart turtles #💚🐢 #donatello #michelangelo #old crush #donny kun #spider man #the amazing spider man game #nezuko kamado #spidey sense is tingling #spider man heart #heart #spider man villain #feeling pissed off #envious

[tenth-sentence]

"So our beautiful prude ain't so prudish somewhere else," the drummer said, thoughtfully.

"Incarnations of Immortality: Being a Green Mother" - Piers Anthony

#book quote #incarnations of immortality #being a green mother #piers anthony #beautiful #prude #prudish #drummer #band #bandmates #thoughtful #eavesdropping

[howifeltabouthim]

Throwing aside Machiavelli's Prince with some disgust, for after all there were limits to people's behaviour, even in the olden days, he felt he must exchange the dead letter of history for the living contact with another human being . . .

L.P. Hartley, from The Harness Room

#machiavelli #humor #disgust #moralism #prudish #the olden days #history #fomo #bookworm #studying #study break #quotes #lit #words #excerpts #quote #literature #allusion #l.p. hartley #the harness room

[oceancrusher]

#clarified

#clarified #prudish #bulkhead #rouge

[marvellouspinecone]

This is THE sluttiest Doctor outfit in the history of the show. This is revolutionary. Unprecedented.

I mean big learher coat? Pink stripes? OPEN SHIRT? Go off king

#ncuti gatwa #doctor who #fourteenth doctor #i mean idk how to feel abt it #i really like timelords being severely prudish repressed i think it's really funny #but this fit is iconic #conical thoughts

[dresshistorynerd]

I've seen a post you've reblogged and added to, among many things about women showing nipples. Can you recommend any ref material (articles, videos, etc.) are share your knowledge about this? Cause I'm curious about that, as nowadays going out in a shirt without a bra makes you indecent, while in like 90s it was okayish? I wonder how it was in previous centuries.

There is a really cool academic paper about bare breast dresses in 17th century England specifically. I think anyone can read it by creating a free account.

Abby Cox also has a good video about the cleavage during the past 500 years in which she goes through also the nip slip phenomena.

I don't have other sources that specifically focus on this subject, though many sources about specific decades touch on it, but I do have my primary source image collection, so I can sum up the history of the bare nipple.

So my findings from primary source images (I could be wrong and maybe I just haven't found earlier examples) is that the Venetians were the first ones to show the nipple for courtly fashion. At the same time in other places in Europe they sported the early Elizabethan no-boob style that completely covered and flattened the chest. In the other corners of Italy the necklines were also low but less extreme. Venetian kirtle necklines dropped extremely low as early as 1560s and they combined extremely sheer, basically see-through partlets with their kirtle. First example below is a 1565-70 portrait of a Venetian lady with the nipples just barely covered waiting slip into view with a movement of arm. There was an even more extreme version of this with the kirtle being literally underboob style, still with a sheer doublet. Though I believe this was not quite for the respectable ladies, since I have only seen it depicted on high class courtesans. They were not exactly respectable ladies, but they did have quite good social position. The second example is a 1570s depiction of a courtesan, which is revealed by the horned hairstyle. By the end of the century this underbust style with only see through fabric covering breasts, had become respectable. In the last example it's shown on the wife of the Venetian doge in 1597.

Around the same time, at the very end of 1500s, the extremely low cut bodice fashion enters rest of Europe. The low cut style was present in the bodices of all classes, but the nipple was really only an aristocrat thing. The lower classes would cover their breasts with a partlet, that was not sheer. Bare breast was ironically from our perspective a show of innocence, youthful beauty and virtue, and to pull off the style with respect, you also had to embody those ideals. Lower class women were considered inherently vulgar and lacking virtue, so a nipple in their case was seen as indecent. Bare boobs were also a sort of status symbol, since the upper class would hire wet nurses to breastfeed their children so they could show of their youthful boobs.

Covering partlets and bodices were still also used in the first decade of 1600s by nobles and the nip slip was mostly reserved for the courtly events. The first image below is an early example of English extremely low neckline that certainly couldn't contain boobs even with a bit of movement from 1597. The 1610s started around 5 decades of fashion that showed the whole boob. The first three were the most extreme. Here's some highlights: The second image is from 1619.

Here the first, very much showing nipples, from c. 1630. The second from 1632.

The neckline would slowly and slightly rise during the next decades, but nip slips were still expected. Here's an example from 1649 and then from 1650-55. In 1660s the neckline would get still slightly higher and by 1870s it was in a not very slippable hight. The necklines would stay low for the next century, though mostly not in boob showing territory, but we'll get there. But I will say that covering the neckline in casual context was expected. Boobs were mostly for fancy occasions. It was considered vain to show off your boobs when the occasion didn't call for it and covering up during the day was necessary for a respectable lady. You wouldn't want to have tan in your milk-white skin like a poor, and also they didn't have sun screen so burning was a reasonable concern.

1720s to 1740s saw necklines that went to the nip slip territory, though they didn't go quite as low as 100 years earlier. The nipple was present in the French courtly fashion especially and rouging your nipples to enhance them was popular. Émilie Du Châtelet (1706-1749), who was an accomplished physicist and made contributions to Newtonian mechanics, was known in the French court to show off her boobies. An icon. Here she is in 1748. Here's another example from this era from 1728.

The Rococo neckline never got high, but in the middle of the century it was less low till 1770s when it plunged into new lows. In 1770s the fashion reached a saturation point, when everything was the most. This included boobs. The most boob visible. There was a change in the attitudes though. The visible boob was not a scandal, but it was risque, instead of sing of innocent and did cause offense in certain circles. I think it's because of the French revolution values gaining momentum. I talked about this in length in another post, mostly in context of masculinity, but till that point femininity and masculinity had been mostly reserved for the aristocracy. Gender performance was mostly performance of wealth. The revolutionaries constructed new masculinity and femininity, which laid the groundwork for the modern gender, in opposition to the aristocracy and their decadence. The new femininity was decent, moral and motherly, an early version of the Victorian angel of the house. The boob was present in the revolutionary imagery, but in an abstract presentation. I can't say for sure, but I think bare breasts became indecent because it was specifically fashion of the indecent French aristocracy.

Here's example somewhere from the decade and another from 1778. The neckline stayed quite low for the 1780s, but rose to cover the boobs for the 1790s.

The nipple didn't stay hidden for long but made a quick comeback in the Regency evening fashion. It was somewhat scandalous by this point, and the nipple and sheer fabrics of the Regency fashion gained much scorn and satire. The styles that were in the high danger nip slip territory and those that allowed the nipple to show through fabric, were still quite popular. The sleeves had been mid length for two centuries, but in 1790s they had made a split between evening and day wear. The evening sleeves were tiny, just covering the shoulder. Showing that would have been a little too much. Like a bare boob? A risque choice but fine. A shoulder? Straight to the horny jail. (I'm joking they did have sheer sleeves and sometimes portraits with exposed shoulder.) But long sleeves became the standard part of the day wear. Getting sun was still not acceptable for the same reasonable and unreasonable reasons. Day dresses did also usually have higher necklines or were at least worn with a chemisette to cover the neckline. Fine Indian muslin was a huge trend. It was extremely sheer and used in multiple layers to build up some cover. There were claims that a gust of wind would render the ladies practically naked, though because they were wearing their underclothing including a shift, which certainly wasn't made from the very expensive muslin, I'm guessing this was an exaggeration. Especially though in the first decade, short underboob stays were fairly popular, so combined with a muslin, nipples were seen. Here's an early 1798 example of exactly that. The short stays did disappear eventually, but in 1810s the extremely small bodices did provide nip slip opportunities, as seen in this 1811 fashion plate.

Victorian moralizing did fully kill the nip slip, though at least they were gender neutral about it. The male nipple was just as offensive to them. In 1890s, when bodybuilding became a big thing, bodybuilder men were arrested for public indecency for not wearing a shirt.

#there was also the new femininity aspect to regency nipple which had to do with breastfeeding becoming fashionable among upper class #it's about the whole motherly thing that came with the french revolution #i can't remember the book i read it from so i didn't go into it because i couldn't remember the details lol #but it did definitely have an effect to the fashion and to the perception of nipple #historical fashion #fashion history #history #dress history #fashion #answers #painting #fashion plate #renaissance fashion #elizabethan fashion #rococo fashion #baroque fashion #regency fashion #will tumblr prove itself to be again more prudish than elizabethans and label my post as mature content? #remains to be seen

[cosmereplay]

Ok headcanon time. In fanfic land obviously Kaladin could've seen Tarah's safehand. But in canon???

#stormlight archive #tarah stormlight #sorry my friend my good friend Tarah the quartermasters daughter who wants to protect her father #there is more to you than a safehand #but Kaladin's prudishness must be examined under a microscope for sex comedy purposes #Stormlight polls #also shout out to the new Stormlight polls account i didn't want to inflict this on you

[uranianrights]

Operation Spanner/The Spanner Case really makes me feel insane because it was so relatively recent and, as far as I understand, the law has not changed nor has anyone received apologies or pardons

Summary taken from here:

In the 1980s, it was discovered that there was an underground culture of sadomasochism amongst gay men in the UK which was seen as unacceptable, and so the Obscene Publications Squad of the Metropolitan Police were assigned to investigate and make arrests. This became known as Operation Spanner, and it ran across 3 years during which 100 men were questioned by police. Out of these men, 43 were named in an official report, and 16 were taken to court on charges of assault and unlawful wounding. [...] In September 1989, 16 men were charged with over 100 offences. During the trial, it was revealed that these occasions of assault related to consensual, private sadomasochistic sex sessions held across 10 years. One of the defendants was a 42-year-old man from Welwyn Garden City, who faced 6 charges of conspiracy to assault and grievous bodily harm and assault occasioning actual bodily harm on himself and others. The House of Lords ruled that consent was not a legal defence for causing actual bodily harm in Britain, but the cases led to a national debate about how consent was defined and how far the government should intervene in sexual encounters between consenting adults." Because of the judgement that consent was not a defence, the men pleaded guilty and they were convicted in November 1990. The prosecutor described the defendants’ behaviour as “brute homosexual activity in sinister circumstances, about as far removed as can be imagined from the concept of human love” and these comments were picked up by the British Press, who described the men as torture gangs and perverted. The men were sentenced to between 12 months and 4 ½ years in prison, but 5 of them appealed the sentences in 1992. Whilst the Lord Chief Justice upheld the convictions, he conceded that the men were not aware that their acts were criminal and so reduced their prison sentences to 6 months or less.

The men since appealed once more in Britain and once to the European Human Rights Court, receiving rejections both times. From what I understand, the law under which these men were convicted has not been changed since 1989, either.

There's a reason there are leathermen at Pride and there's a reason queer people recoiling from the inclusion of kink are shooting themselves in the foot. There's no way to disentangle the legal history of homosexuality or transness (laws against "crossdressing" in particular) from the legal history of kink.

A full history of the case and related documents can be found here.

#the prudishness of uk legislation never fails to astonish me tbh #uk #operation spanner #spanner case #spanner trial #20th century #1980s #1990s

[clementimetodie]

some kind of irony in both prudes and perverts oversexualizing everything

#prudishness has always bothered me for this reason #couldn't word it when I was younger but that's it

[isogenderskitty]

it has to be said, it’s very funny that despite the title of “nerdy prude” ruth is in fact the least prudish person on the entire planet. if she was any hornier i think she would just explode on the spot

#ruth is like if sims had a third stage of ‘flirty’ after ‘very flirty’ #and like the other three stage emotions if she gets to stage 3 she’s probably about to keel over #npmd #nerdy prudes must die #really the only one that’s that prudish is grace? and Sometimes pete #but like within reason #by which i mean he doesn’t want his friends screaming about sex in the library while he’s on the phone which is Fair #ruth fleming #starkid #hatchetfield #hatchetverse

[adelaidedrubman]

—LOCAL CRINGEFAIL MASS MURDERERS WALK INTO SEX THERAPY. (template found here. | credit to @derelictheretic for both oc portraits used!)

was alerted to the existence of this incredible meme by dearest @henbased and obviously had to do it for the flop couples and try starting off a game. below cut is blank template (+ full res johnjess version for easier reading because tumblr decided to be difficult with me on preserving transparency) and tags to play if you have any failsex couples to share!

tagging: @florbelles @henbased @derelictheretic @nightbloodbix @mccarthycormac @corvosattano @shellibisshe @socially-awkward-skeleton @voidika @fourlittleseedlings @blissfulalchemist @clicheantagonist @cassietrn @firstaidspray @josephseedismyfather @cloudofbutterflies92 @stacispratt @strangefable @nonfunctioning-queer @nowandthane @risingsh0t @direwombat @ladyoriza @g0dspeeed @inafieldofdaisies @deputyash @afarcry5fromstraight @orionlancasterr @wrathfulrook + nsfw games opt in here!

#praying tumblr doesn’t do the ‘‘ignore format and throw images in post body at random’’ thing it definitely did when i saved to drafts #anyways. ignore the johnjess complaints being mixed from multiple verses. they would cross time and space to have bad sex. #i was going to say the only thing referenced in theirs that hasn’t happened on screen in canon at some point is john unsexy crying but. #ig he did cry just *before* their second fuck in wildfire so maybe that counts. #also with the private vs. loudmouth thing i wasn’t 100% sure if that meant to the general pop (brags about sex life) or with partner. #so sorta split down the middle for answering for everyone. #also clarification for faith leaning conservative slider did not mean conservative like. prudish. #she’s not taking the risks herself because she’s Just Laying There #oc: deputy jestiny ellen #oc: jenna swann #otp: stop bothering these nice folks #otp: a neurochemical con job #nsft

[ashe-smash]

You call Vegeta Daddy once and he’s like “My daughter calls me that, what the fuck is wrong with you.”

#I think he’s painfully vanilla in certain ways lmao #and maybe a bit prudish #thanks to the db reader discord for this #vegeta x reader #dragon ball x reader #cw daddy kink #kinda

[oceancrusher]

#clarified

#clarified #prudish #twitch #bulkhead #rouge

[orthopoogle]

It kills me how mothers are letting their 14-year-old daughters dress these days. Little girls are going to school dances dressed like strippers.

#this isn’t even me being prudish about straps instead of sleeves or whatever #these are dresses that just barely cover the butt #it’s weird weird WEIRD

[moghedien]

not gonna lie, I see show only reactors talking about how Rand is bad for sleeping with Lanfear while Egwene thinks he's dead and I'm like "what?" every single time because I legit forget they were a couple until that is flaunted in my face on rewatches/rereads

#like the whole first season I was like happy they were being less prudish #but also like 'ew they're like siblings' the whole fucking time lmao #like I forget that there is no reason for show onlys to assume they wouldn't make it to the end based on the first season #but I'm like 'dude they don't even make it to the first quarter of the series' lmao #I can't take them seriously as a couple sorry #wot book spoilers #wot show spoilers #wot on prime #wheel of time #egwene al'vere #rand al'thor

[lobotomyladylives]

I'll be called a puritan for this but tbh people need to be less open about sex with ppl who aren't their partner. I've never in my entire life wanted to hear about a friend's sex life in any amount of detail. Let alone a coworker/acquaintance. What is wrong with people that they think they can just talk to anyone about the position their boyfriend fucked them in the previous night. I literally did not ask. Not only do I not care but I find you repulsive & socially bereft. And do you realize your social skills are being critiqued by a fucking autist rn. You should be ashamed.

#this time it was one of my clients who is sharing more than my best friend would (granted my best friend knows im prudish) #but like WHYYYY #im so sick of this bro i hate sex havers i hate your weird insistence with dumping your private life on everyone