aanonymouse4o:One picture at the Museum of the Orientalists was especially striking, it showed a w
aanonymouse4o: One picture at the Museum of the Orientalists was especially striking, it showed a woman being sold, while a younger woman, about the age of the students from America awaited her turn. She was crouched at the feet of the woman being sold, like an acolyte. The curator told them that a girl called Natalie often viewed the picture for hours, contemplating the crouched figure. Natalie had said the sold woman reminded her of O, which the museum curator took to mean short of Odalisque, an old word for harem slave. She would have been shocked to learn the truth.of O. The women being sold were all shaved, for reasons of cleanliness and the master’s pleasure. Ciera and Sam, who shaved, agreed. -- source link