HockeyDoxie on Nostr: This goes to show that people have been exchanging naughty pics for a long time... ...

This goes to show that people have been exchanging naughty pics for a long time...

But Beauty Revealed is not a “self-portrait with the [Goodridge’s] breasts exposed”; it’s a self-portrait exclusively of her breasts. As Dr Chelsea Nichols points out, on her blog The Museum of Ridiculously Interesting Things, Goodridge was sending Webster the 19th-century equivalent of “a saucy nudie pic” (which also managed, by hiding her face, to protect her identity from prying, puritanical eyes).
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/sarah-goodridges-beauty-revealed-1828/