Thread: What is "Cheesecake"?

Hi Everyone,

Okay, so I'm having a bit of a noob moment. What is Cheescake? (not the yummy desert)
Everyone always goes on about it and I'm always a bit like

Hope someone can help me :help:

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Oooh, I've always wondered that too! I hope someone tells us!

Wikipedia says:
The term "cheesecake" is synonymous with pin-up photo. The earliest documented print usage of this sense of cheesecake is in 1934 [1], predating pin-up, although anecdotes say the phrase was in spoken slang some 20 years earlier, originally in the phrase (said of a pretty woman) "better than cheesecake."

I have a more exact quote in one of the books I'm reading for uni but I can't find it yet - it always seemed a bit suspect to me, but there you go xx

Originally Posted by miserabelle

Wikipedia says:
The term "cheesecake" is synonymous with pin-up photo. The earliest documented print usage of this sense of cheesecake is in 1934 [1], predating pin-up, although anecdotes say the phrase was in spoken slang some 20 years earlier, originally in the phrase (said of a pretty woman) "better than cheesecake."

I have a more exact quote in one of the books I'm reading for uni but I can't find it yet - it always seemed a bit suspect to me, but there you go xx

Thank you sweetheart!
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The 4th paragraph offers a basic explanation.

no problem xx