THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #80 (1/2/10)

John William Godward, English
Effect of Alcohol on Model’s Willingness to Pose Nude, 1913
Oil on canvas
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mabrndt
mabrndt
2 years ago

Artist info at a later blog entry.

Solstice*1947
Solstice*1947
7 months ago

/// The researcher who funded this study
comes across as an old fuddy-duddy.
At the model’s third drink,
she replied to his wink:
“I consider you more of a buddy.”

/// So, the alcohol did make her looser
when she modeled, and seemed to induce her
to be seen in the nude,
and yet not to have viewed
with approval her would-be seducer.

/// The research went through modifications:
“Does libido increase with libations?”
Can one banish her sneers
with a couple of beers,
and obtain her consent for relations?

/// To ignore anti-sex prohibitions
just for money, would lead to suspicions
of the world’s oldest trade.
So, if she’s to get laid,
blame the drinks that destroy inhibitions.

/// If a gal has a yen to get “frisky,”
the effect on her “rep” could be risky.
Some hatefully “zing” her;
she gives them the finger.
For herself, it’s three fingers of whiskey.

/// Taking three or four drinks dulls her brains.
But a different fact better explains
why she’s standing there bare.
Spilled drinks soak what you wear.
She removed it to scrub out the stains.

Solstice*1947
Solstice*1947
7 months ago

/// Godward’s nudes sell for quite a high fee,
and they really are something to see,
but we readers today
have no reason to pay
when the internet shows them for free.

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