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Description: The ironing board is set against an original poster for the film Wages of Sin (dir. by Herman Weber, 1938), “ a picture that reveals all” and that did not comply with the censorship guidelines of the Motion Picture Production Code of 1930, also known as the Hays Code. Because the Hays Code famously censored overt depictions of sexuality on film, emphasis is placed on two inanimate and stationary objects represented by irons, reflecting “the conjugal rites of the machine.” This attempt to
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