Can you tell that the young lady in the image is about to embark on an erotic adventure?
I think I can, by glancing at the implement she is apparently trying to girt around, what I assume are her loins.
The image is an illustration from the French enlightenment philosopher and writer Denis Diderot's book named The Indiscreet Jewel. Women speak boldly and frankly in the book about their sexual desires and about what excite them sexually.
Published in 1748 in France, The Indiscreet Jewel is said to be a precursor of Eve Angler's Vagina Monologues.
Diderot was an ace enlightenment thinker and was known for confronting courageously the unconscionable and uncomfortable issues of his times. One of the issues was an openness about women's sexuality. But he was also an outspoken critic of religion, racism and slavery.
His positions on most political, religious, social and sexual orthodoxies made him very unpopular in the eyes of the Catholic Church. He was denied a burial spot.
On the eve of his 300th birthday, French President Francois Hollande has decided to honor Diderot posthumously by granting him a symbolic reburial in the Pantheon a massive neo-Classical Church in the Latin quarter of Paris.
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