Note| major nudity| By now most of you know that I am a really modern woman with an open mind on most sexual matters. In my 10-year career at Victoria’s Secret, I was exposed to plenty of model images and marketing decisions around photography for windows and national ad campaigns.

My beat was product, design, and merchandising — not marketing, but I attended key meetings involving raw, unretouched Victoria’s Secret model images.

In my consulting career since leaving Victoria’s Secret, I have been part of retouching lingerie photography conversations with clients like Vasarette and Vanity Fair, where we actually said “no leave that, this is natural for women.”

I’ve been part of conversations with clients where we handed back the photos, saying “too perfect; you made them fake. Why did you carve out her waist like that? No woman looks like that.”

Did we retouch images? Yes. If the model had a zit on her face that day, did we get rid of it? Yes. Did we remove some lumps and wayward bumps and an ounce of cellulite or two? Yes. I am guilty as charged.

‘The Year Of The Rabbit’ Playboy Auction

In my career, I have never seen a group of images like these from ‘The Year Of The Rabbit’ auction of Playboy images by Christies.

Jezebel delivers a set of photos that every American woman should stare at long and hard.

For every day that I kick women in the butt telling us to get a grip, get going and stop whining, today I have tears in my eyes for us.

There may be no better example of why American women believe we’re washed up at 28 when Italian, French and Brazilian women say 35-45, with 45 winning as many votes.

Under the direction of a woman, Christie Hefner, who became president of Playboy Enterprises in 1982 and chairman of the board and CEO in 1988 until she stepped down in 2009, these images from the 1990s and early 2000s were marked up by editors and the art department, then subjected to a panel that graded them with a composite score.