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In 1863 French Impressionist painter Edouard Manet shocked the art world with his painting Luncheon on the Grass.

The outrage at Manet's painting stems from the still-current tradition of hypocrisy. Despite the fact that it was quite obvious that real life nude models were the inspiration for all those mythological creatures and Greek and Roman goddesses cavorting around naked in so many paintings, it was acceptable because they weren't really naked women. Manet's real crime, therefore, wasn't in presenting all the naughty bits that had, after all, been on display in paintings for centuries, but rather that he was contributing to a blurring of the distinction between the real and the artifice. The fantasy nude women in paintings was, with just a few thousand brush strokes by one man, replaced by the ordinary. Oddly, a fully nude Greek goddess complete with exposed breasts and hairless pubes was preferable to the side view of one breast and no genitalia on the woman in Manet's...