National Geographic Boobies
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On this date in 1886, just four days after the Statue of Liberty was dedicated in New York Harbor, a photograph of real live female breasts appeared in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
The owner of the breasts was a member of the Zulu tribe—a lady much too primitive to know that male nipples are innocuous, but, unless it’s on a Greek statue, a female nipple…well, just ask Janet Jackson and CBS… If it’s harmless for babes to stick in their mouths, and it’s capable of nourishing life, it’s gotta be obscene. Show-and-tell will cost you $550,000 in FCC fines. So, until Marilyn Monroe showed up stretched out on red velvet in the first Playboy centerfold (December, 1953), fully weaned American boys from every state hailed the frequent au naturel exposures padding the pages of the esteemed scientific periodical, still celebrated for its in-depth articles and, uh, outstanding photography. |
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