AtD translation: though to what pleasures given posed a question far too dangerous

[Mark Kohut]

By the eighteenth century the term odalisque referred to the eroticized
artistic genre in which a nominally eastern woman lies on her side on
display for the spectator.[1]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odalisque#cite_note-delplato1-1>

What eroticized pleasures is the question, it seems.

(not even the Grace of an odalisque on a divan--Gilbert & Sullivan)

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 7:56 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> P141.24-32   “More like due diligence,” replied Dr. Counterfly, “and a
> respect for probabilities.” He gestured toward the image transmitted by the
> prisms of the instrument, which had been growing steadily clearer, like a
> fateful dawn none await with any eagerness. Too soon we discovered that we
> could not look away. Though details were still difficult to make out, the
> Figure appeared to recline on its side, an odalisque of the snows—though to
> what pleasures given posed a question far too dangerous—with as little
> agreement among us as to its “facial” features, some describing them as
> “Mongoloid,” others as “serpent-like.”
>
> What does "to what pleasures given" mean?
>
>
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