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Marilyn Monroe, Brigitte Bardot, and Raquel Welch were sex symbols of the screen in the 1950s and 1960s, and their sexiness presumed sexual availability, whether they were playing it as such or not. They were erotic, they held the promise of sex, but were not shown having sex. Their screen roles were not slutty in nature, they were not written to have enough agency to be joyfully promiscuous but rather were prizes for the right man. They were bombshells and bimbos, archetypes of sexual desirability that were designed to be attractive, empty-headed, and easily discarded. Female audiences hated
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