The device of covering a woman’s genitalia with a flower – almost always a rose – probably pre-dates photography.My unresearched guess would be the Italian Renaissance painters. The ancient Greeks and Romans would have found the conceit merely odd, perhaps unwholesome.

The not quite fully naked woman is model Mariacarla Boscono. She was photographed by Paola Kudacki for Hercules magazine.
Originally posted 2010-11-11 07:27:24.
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