July 8th, 2021 -- by Bacchus
Needlessly Creepy Voyeur Postcard
I think old voyeurism art that was intended to be comical will always look at least a little bit creepy to modern eyes. But the two lines of poetry aren’t helping here. I mean, every woman is a daughter, but that truism aside, why stretch in that direction for a rhyme here?
Honestly I thought the couplet must have been excerpted from a larger poem, which perhaps it was. But Google will not admit to knowing these words except in the context of this same Curt Teich postcard.
Via Kinky Delight.
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I would bet that it’s a reference to the old “Farmer’s Daughter/traveling salesman” joke stories
“daughter of man” is an old old reference. It shows up in pre- and biblical references, in scandinavian sagas / eddas, and many other poetic references. The actual two lines above is nagging at me as an actual reference to other “real” poetry, but even after a quick google i can’t place it.
Fussy, I know, right? “Daughter of Eve” was also a thing, especially among religious misogynists trying to remind everyone of woman’s sinful nature. Anyway I was certain that Google would pull out a longer poem with that couplet in it, and was surprised when it did not. However, I try to remember that an astonishing amount of historical culture has never been digitized…
From reading old SF, my understanding is that in the early 20th century, men in the USA often bonded by trading dirty songs over drinks (women who were accepted as ‘one of the guys’ might learn them too). So a lot of them were ‘oral culture’ and there were censorship barriers to printing them unless they were the kind of dirty poem which could be sold in a special numbered edition of 220 copies.