Betty Boop was the first and most popular animated sex symbol. Founded as an icon for the free swinging and carefree era flappers of the Jazz. Flappers were the first women to be free to display and flaunt their sexuality in a way that was considered extreme in their day, but would be considered quite normal today. Betty was especially popular with adult audiences, while the cartoons were seemingly surreal they appear numerous sexual and psychological themes. Betty's character was usually depicted as a modern teenager at odds with the older generation ways of her parents.
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