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Female Nudity & Modesty

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

CHAPTER

Is That Your Torso on the Front?

When did you start being naked in public as a former protest? What was the first one that you did? I bet it took everyone by surprise. As a teenage girl, I desperately wanted to be heard. I wanted to be taken seriously rather than treated like dirt. And then what was by my late twenties, I'd fallen out of touch with my own body and I don't think that was good for my health. So why not shed my clothes along with my qualms about respectability and start using my body to subvert the idea of female respectability?" she says.

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