I love this. A life magazine retort to the stupidity of the Hays Code.
The Code was a series of rules brought into being in the early 1930's after a series of sex scandals left Hollywood reeling. Will H. Hays, the director of the motion picture association of America decided films were getting a wee bit too licentious in their depictions of killin' and lovin' and decided to lay down the law. He's the reason why you rarely saw a married couple share a bed, you never saw a person bleed after being shot, you never saw the bad guys taking drugs or wining or god forbid, saw an inch of naked skin, on the big screen from 1934 to the 1960's.
Then with one still image a magazine could make a joke of it all.
A nice reminder that satire and mockery aren't modern constructs.
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