Dealing with double standards of decency

She wears a body-hugging, breast-enhancing bodice, replete with golden lace shimmering against her porcelain white skin. Luscious red lips pout to augment her inviting eyes, amply accentuated with mascara on an oval rouge-dusted face and framed by a bejeweled coiffure in the style of the Tang Dynasty (AD 618-907).

Wait, the Tang Dynasty? Isn't this a screengrab from one of the scenes of The Saga of Wu Zetian? The TV period drama that's been hogging the headlines after Chinese censors clipped scenes showing the cleavages of the scantily clad actresses?

Yes, these were photos of the court ladies in their full-bodied glory in front of me, right next to the modern ones of a blonde model from the West wearing the latest lingerie of the 2015 winter season.