Why does Leopard Skin connote promiscuity?

I was going to put this in GQ because I would like a factual answer, but as I think most answers are going to be allegorical, I put it here.

So why does leopard skin connote one is being promiscuous? I know it doesn’t happen like that all the time, but pop culture and such like to display a strumpet wearing leopard skin leggings, or leopard skin shirts…What is it about leopard skins that make them so sexual?

I’m not saying that everyone who wears them wants to be sexy, but if one does want to portray a sence of sexy-ness wearing leopard skin anything could do the trick?!:dubious:

I don’t know about promiscuity, but it does indicate a Lack of Taste. I learn this from The Encyclopedia of Bad Taste, an indispensible book that will allow you to locate your own frontiers of Bad Taste (It did it for me, anyway). Leopard Skin lingerie appears in one entry, and IIRC there’s an entry for leopard skin itself.

So it seems to be that Bad Taste = Tawdry = associated with promiscuity angle. Nobody of good taste would be caught dead in leopard-skin lingerie, is the implication.

I’ve always considered the leopard = wild animal, ergo leopard-print wearing person = wild person to be a valid reason, even if it is a little irrational. Or maybe that’s just me.

Yes…it’s tacky in MHO.

I have an ex friend who dressed her 6 year old step daughter in a leopard print dress.

Ugh! Stop the madness now!

Possibly to look exotic? Perhaps an advertising tool? Also, they may not have the $$$ for current trends, so are using clothing from the 80’s? I vote for the “exotic” reason.

I agree with XJETGIRLX’s assessment. And, humans have always used animal skins (and other parts) in the hope of acquiring some of the animals’ attributes. Face it, leopards are sexy and sultry. Even their walk is sensual. Plus, the spotted pattern is easily recognizable, yet not quite as “out there” as tiger print.

It may be bad taste, but I still find leopard print lingerie sexy, because it indicates a fun-loving woman who isn’t afraid to flaunt conventions. To me, that’s sexy.

Maybe because leopard print clothing are tight-fitted?

I wear leopard print undies. My husband asked me to buy them. They’re cute!

Because Leopards are such sluts.

Sheesh… :rolleyes:

Because leapard-print is about as tacky as it gets, and who’re the trashiest dressers of all? Prostitutes, of course.

Though now that I think fir a second, that might be just a tad circular.

The very first girl I ever slept with was wearing Leopard print undies that night.
ever since then when ever I see leopard print :smiley:

Another fan of leopard print lingerie here. I like 'em on women. There is something fun and sexy about a woman who wears them.

Zebra prints look trashy to me. But that’s because zebras are the true skanks of the animal kingdom.

BUT Zebra print is the sexiest.

I’m sure there is some golden age comic with some jungle girl character wearing a leopard skin bikini and that image was probably imbedded in a generations mind as sexy.

Oh Yeah? Well I heard that widdershins are nothing but thieving whores!:smiley:

I’m wearing a leopard print shirt AND undies today!

::looks down in confusion:: Trashy or cute? Heeeelp…

I don’t think that word means what you think it means.

I think the association with leopard print is that it appears almost always in lingerie, or tight-fitting/revealing clothing. This gives it a reputation as slutty. And perhaps there’s something class-ist to it as well, since animal print outerwear is typically, IME, not expensive and often associated with “trashiness.” There is a stereotype linking these types of women as easy.

Cute! You’re always cute. And…rowrrrrrrr! :wink:

So…how YOU doin’?

I just love that movie!

Inconcievable!!!

Dangit, NCB, ya beat me to it!!!