A fascinating short history of the uses towards which sexual propaganda were put by both sides in the Second World War, copiously illustrated of course.
There are few things as guaranteed to get men's dander up as the notion
that someone else - especially some shifty foreign type - might be
playing footsie with "their" women, and this fear of cuckoldry is what
all of the very many propaganda pictures on the page linked to seek to
play on. One thing that confuses me though - why is it that men
everywhere seem to find it so much more upsetting that "foreign",
strange looking men are sleeping with "their" partners, given that one
is equally cuckolded whatever the origins of the other man? It can't
simply be the fear of not "measuring up", as that test is already
failed if one's partner is cheating on one, regardless of who she's
doing it with.
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