M & D "Something irresistibly perverse"

[Mark Kohut]

p. 80.......'a young white woman sitting upon a Stoep, etc...
black servants meant..to be invisible"....and that up skirting
peekabo 'game'...

I remember from something i read that many white women in
the US South often dressed and undressed in front of black men,
their slaves, basically, wrote the historian, under the belief that
they would not be excited by sexy women in a state of undress
since they did not feel such sexual things like a white man would.
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