Where Have All the Private Parts Gone?

While musing on past experience I happened to look at some notes taken in 1971 while on a Seminar in Germany. Among the notes was a newspaper insert that I apparently saved for some future reference. It is a small four page item entitled "Das Ende der furwitzigen Schwester Brigitte Bardot". A loose translation goes like this: "The humorous end for sister Brigitte Bordot".

The folder depicts Brigitte Bardot as a Catholic Sister in her sisterly habit, standing on the beach, likely on the Baltic Sea near Travemunde in the vicinity of Hamburg. Slowly and methodically she removes her clothing until she is naked whereupon a stroke of lightning comes and the final frame is of a small smoking spot of ash on the beach. Apparently Nature could only handle so much Brigitte.

The most remarkable part of this charming scene is that the back side of Brigitte is the only view provided. How old fashioned, one would say in the liberated world of 2010. The folder has a look on innocence about it. At the time every supermarket and kiosk had picture of suggestively unclothed persons, male and female - all rather low key in comparison to the all parts bared style of the here and now.

Once body parts were even called "privates". Now those same parts are commodified and make much money for the purveyors. Apparently the search for stimulation will have to turn to other regions of the human person. I wonder what private parts will mean in 40 years.