[He is taking it as a personal challenge not to let her fluster him, and right now he's half winning that battle.]
You think I got through any kind of respectable art program never having seen a naked woman?
[People were hard up for money in the Depression. It used to be, life models were prostitutes or hustlers looking to make a little on the side, but in the 30s it became common to see anybody down on their luck trying it out. Nudity without passion isn't anything that could even remotely ruffle him.]
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You think I got through any kind of respectable art program never having seen a naked woman?
[People were hard up for money in the Depression. It used to be, life models were prostitutes or hustlers looking to make a little on the side, but in the 30s it became common to see anybody down on their luck trying it out. Nudity without passion isn't anything that could even remotely ruffle him.]