Swinging, Spinning in 1830

For RDP Prompt: GYRATE

Did you know that the first known use of the word Gyrate was in 1830

and did you also know in that same year the word

anti-erotic made it’s first appearance

which tells me that in 1830  people were somewhat conflicted about passion

and that this famous painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard ( 1767) of a brazen little hussy  swinging between two men as she flirts  with one while leaving the other in her wake  may have been predicting that all of that gyrating may have led to to anti – erotic sentiments.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

“The Swing” by Jean-Honoré Fragonard

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