Basics

Chapter 1

In the beginning.

And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

Genesis 3:7

                                                                       

The sexual symbolism of a man unlacing a women’s corset - a metaphor for her  deflowering – was such that it kept mch of it’s erotic potency even when it had been replaced by the less highly charged act of unfastening.