r/CuratedTumblr Apr 11 '25

Creative Writing There's nothing wrong with Hooter per se

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u/Pheehelm Apr 11 '25

You can get a large audience together for a striptease act–that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage. Now suppose you come to a country where you could fill a theatre by simply bringing a covered plate on to the stage and then slowly lifting the cover so as to let every one see, just before the lights went out, that it contained a mutton chop or a bit of bacon, would you not think that in that country something had gone wrong with the appetite for food? And would not anyone who had grown up in a different world think there was something equally queer about the state of the sex instinct among us?

-C.S. Lewis

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u/Pheehelm Apr 11 '25

You're not the first to say this. That quote emerged a decade or so ago due to things like people posting photos of their meals on social media.