Post #457301 by Formikahini on Fri, May 29, 2009 10:45 PM

Now that I try and pin it down, a full-on happy smile seems to kill it as Exotica for me. She has to be looking alluring..tempting...naughty/sexy. Wholesome: no. (I fully concur with Bigbro on not all hula girls' being Exotica Girls for that reason.)

Jeans, furs, pearls: BIG no. Down-to-Earth or glamorous is NOT exotic. Nice in their own right, but they are not Exotica.

Marina the Mermaid, tailed or no: Always. Whether fire-breathing, Polynesian dancing, belly-dancing, Orion Slave Girl dancing, or peeking through the windows - with a tail - at the [soon-to-be-history] Wreck Bar, she IS the modern Exotica Girl.

And as a mermaid, she can break my above personal rule and smile all she wants; a babe with fins is exotic, no matter what.