A brief timeline of sex on stage in musicals through the decades, from the wink-wink nudge-nudge ribaldry of Cole Porter's 1920s to the high-flown metaphor of Spring Awakening to the relatively damp squibs of explicit discussion of sex in musicals of the 2010s and '20s. As with all things in art, what's important is less what's being said than what's not being said, and musical theater has always been adept at artful evasion, to delightful effect.

SONGS FEATURED:

"Baby It's Cold Outside" from Neptune's Daughter

"They All Laughed" from Shall We Dance

"My Heart Belongs to Daddy" from Leave It to Me!

"Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)" from Paris

"The Tennis Song" from City of Angels

"Happiness" from Passion

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