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Female Nudity & Modesty

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

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What It's Like to Be Naked

Babylonia is seen as this kind of hive of promiscuity. In ancient Egypt, there really wasn't much of a problem in terms of women's bodies. By around about the second millennium BC, a fail of modesty descended across the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean. The ancient Greeks were some of the worst offenders when it comes to this obsession with female respectability.

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