You've rather missed the point regarding Elvis,. In your post, to which I was responding when I mentioned him, you referred to almost indecent exposure, mock thrusting, gyrations and other stuff. Elvis may not have worn gold shorts when performing but he wore skin tight pants that left very little to the imagination and his gyrations and mock thrusts at the microphone were what earned him the nickname 'Elvis The Pelvis.'
https://www.elvispresleymusic.com.au/pictures/1956-1957-elvis-ed-sullivan-show.html
This appearance on June 5 fanned the flames of the nationwide controversy over his hip-swiveling performing style. Elvis sang 'Hound Dog' for the first time on television that spring night. When he began the song, no one knew what to expect, because the tune was new. But the audience responded immediately with enthusiasm.
Elvis then went a bit further in his performance: He slowed down the final chorus of the song to a blues tempo, and he thrust his pelvis to the beat of the music in a particularly suggestive manner. The studio audience went wild with excitement. The next day, the press nicknamed him 'Elvis the Pelvis'.
Many described his act by comparing it to a striptease. Jack Gould of The New York Times declared', Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability', while John Crosby of the New York Herald Tribune called Elvis 'unspeakably untalented and vulgar'. The criticism prompted parents, religious groups from the North and South, and the Parent-Teacher Association to condemn Elvis and rock 'n' roll music by associating both with juvenile delinquency.
