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Richard Thompson Ford

“Ironically, dress codes that require modesty can eroticize the boundary between permissible and illicit, encouraging lust rather than preventing it. Concealment contains the timeless allure of forbidden fruit.”

Richard Thompson Ford, Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History
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