# 18th & 19th Century Revolutionary Imagery: exposed breasts on the female figure.

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 18, 2014, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/18th-19th-century-revolutionary-imagery-exposed-breasts-on-the-female-figure/691055 "2014-06-18T14:19:15Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/18th-19th-century-revolutionary-imagery-exposed-breasts-on-the-female-figure/691055/21 "2014-06-19T15:45:15Z")

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> [@Darth\_Panda](#):
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> People like boobs.

[You gotta like boobs a lot.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPVgKoruWdA)

What else would I like\* if I didn’t like boobs a lot!  
\*Other than my jock and a long flag-a-long?!

CMC fnord!

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**Post date:** [June 20, 2014, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/18th-19th-century-revolutionary-imagery-exposed-breasts-on-the-female-figure/691055/22 "2014-06-20T14:42:53Z")

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> [@Arrendajo](#):
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> Also something to keep in mind is that prior to the Victorian era some cultures were less prudish than we tend to imagine them.

Hell, not even _[the Victorians](http://www.cracked.com/article_19575_5-ridiculous-sex-myths-from-history-you-probably-believe.html)_ were as prudish as most people think.

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**Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/18th-19th-century-revolutionary-imagery-exposed-breasts-on-the-female-figure/691055/23 "2014-06-21T00:13:13Z")

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> [@APB](#):
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> Although what is slightly more germane is that perhaps the most celebrated image of her was as [a topless goddess](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_Victrix_(Canova)).

Well, she _has_ a divine right. And left.

> [@alphaboi867](#):
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> IIRC one of Bartholdi’s designs for the Statue of Liberty had her breasts exposed.

But the model was his MOM!!!

Leif Ericson’s sister, Freydis, scared off attacking Indians by beating a sword on her bare breasts. And I suppose yelling at them, since there is not much scarier than a hot, topless, pregnant, Norse ginger with a sword yelling at you.

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