What could be more natural for a man than for him to want to see the body of a woman he finds attractive? What sort of logic lies behind his government trying to prevent him from doing so? So there is perhaps, a certain irony in the fact that if it hadn't been for the draconian British obscenity laws, photos like the ones from the fifties and sixties show on this page might never have been taken. The models concerned were persuaded to shave to make retouching easier, but retouching wouldn't have been necessary in the first place without the censorship, so neither would shaving.

Until the very late sixties, no British publisher could risk showing a girl's pubic hair, let alone an open leg shot. Things changed rapidly in the seventies and Harrison Marks supplied British magazines with the type of images in demand as he had always done.

In the second half of the seventies, even more explicit shots were in demand. Open leg was no longer enough : showing pink was to push the boundaries yet one step further and shaving returned to stay.