Laura Boldrini, speaker of the lower house of parliament, who has hit out at the way in which women are often depicted as "mute, and sometimes undressed" on television, lauded the rejection of the show as "a modern and civil choice".
"We began to realise that everyone we met was either drunk, flanked by an angry dog or undressed," she blithely wrote.
Once they undressed, he would paint them with water, and diagnose them as suffering from curses or black magic.
Her father, a monarchist by her telling, felt undressed in the street on Sundays without a cane and gloves.These details were sprung on the world in 1985, in a book that accompanied the launch of a new perfume, "Beautiful".
WHEN he was six weeks old, Paul Bowles was undressed by his father and placed naked in a wicker cot on the third-storey windowsill of a brownstone in Queens during a snowstorm.
It also reminded me of the Dominique Strauss-Kahn scandal; his initial defence was that the maid had simply surprised him in his hotel room while he was undressed.
As they came down, many were "undressed by the air".
"The new lad," says Ben Crewe, a sociologist at Essex University who has researched the subject, replaced the "new man" as the "dominant metaphorical motif for the conceptualisation and representation of contemporary masculinity .But, as the lads' mags draped increasingly undressed bodies of increasingly unknown women across the covers, so the upmarket titles followed.
Jack Butler's "Sex 70s" series (1978, pictured right) plays with this new-found freedom, depicting magazine cuttings of females appearing to be undressed by the photographer's oversize hand.
He was awakened in the morning along with his goddess; washed, clothed, and fed; placed in his shrine to give audience to his subjects; praised and entertained throughout the day; and ceremoniously fed, undressed, and put to bed at night.
Yet there we were – a respectable family of four – parking our car near the petrol pumps and making swiftly for the cover of a copse of pine trees to get undressed.
