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By the 1930s nurses were no longer turning tricks on the side, but the sexy rep still stuck. A common vaudeville trope was the cat-call of “Helloooooo, nurse” (which was later adopted as a catchphrase/character in the 90s series Animaniacs). Even in the 30s, cartoons were busy sexualizing nurses, most notoriously via proto-pencil-drawn sexpot Betty Boop, who famously squeezed her size-zero waist into a nurse’s uniform, giving a whole generation of kids weird feelings that they’d long carry into adulthood.
The underlying significations of the sexy nurse are hard for anyone with half an English degree to ignore. If you’re looking for a 10,000 words on the subject, consult the loquacious healthcare blogger behind , but our personal analysis concludes that long after the nurses’ original roots in the world of prostitution were shed, the erotic nurses most likely began as a way for male patients to cope with feelings of helplessness and the self-consciousness of their masculinity being threatened by a woman in a position of power.
A Brief History of Sexy Nurses
Nurses were even sexy in black and white
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