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coppice:

--- Quote from: TimFox on July 14, 2023, 12:39:21 pm ---I believe the term "naughty bits" was invented by Monty Python for a comedy sketch "How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body" where naughty bits were covered up by polka-dot underwear.

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Its older than that. They probably made it a lot more popular.
TimFox:
According to one source (discussing the evolution of "naughty" in English usage):  “Naughty bits”, referring to the genitals, was first recorded in a Monty Python sketch in 1970. This euphemism was considered too explicit for American audiences and was bleeped out when the show was broadcast in the US.
https://theconversation.com/five-words-that-dont-mean-what-you-think-they-do-158102
There is a later comic-book series unrelated to Monty Python called "Naughty Bits" (1991 to 2004), and a sex-toy company.
There seems to have been a small outbreak of this usage in the immediate postwar period.
tggzzz:

--- Quote from: TimFox on July 14, 2023, 02:00:22 pm ---According to one source (discussing the evolution of "naughty" in English usage):  “Naughty bits”, referring to the genitals, was first recorded in a Monty Python sketch in 1970. This euphemism was considered too explicit for American audiences and was bleeped out when the show was broadcast in the US.

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Around that time we were experimenting with flashes of (female) full frontal nudity. It had to be art, of course.

A famous rule of thumb used to distinguish between art and porn was the "angle of the dangle" relative to the Mull of Kintyre. I'm going to leave the interpretation of that to your imagination; it isn't difficult.
TimFox:
I was taught the theorem:  "The angle of the dangle is proportional to the heat of the meat."
coppice:

--- Quote from: TimFox on July 14, 2023, 02:00:22 pm ---According to one source (discussing the evolution of "naughty" in English usage):  “Naughty bits”, referring to the genitals, was first recorded in a Monty Python sketch in 1970. This euphemism was considered too explicit for American audiences and was bleeped out when the show was broadcast in the US.
https://theconversation.com/five-words-that-dont-mean-what-you-think-they-do-158102
There is a later comic-book series unrelated to Monty Python called "Naughty Bits" (1991 to 2004), and a sex-toy company.
There seems to have been a small outbreak of this usage in the immediate postwar period.

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I seem remember one of the risque comedians, well before Monty Python, like Max Wall or Max Miller, using that term when the BBC wouldn't allow them to say anything more direct. They still managed to get into plenty of trouble, though.
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