Many of the works of the “great masters” were commissioned by men, and the depictions of women’s bodies were very much in service of their libidos. The history of the nude in Western (and other) art is not outside of the history of thie objectification of women’s bodies.

No, he actually went back and forth in this, struggling to accommodate his racial essentialism with his Catholic soteriology. More often than not, he insisted that the orcs were inherently irredeemable.

No, it was heavily influenced by Tolkien. The original edition had “hobbits” and “ents”, and changed them to “halflings” and “treants” due to legal action by the Tolkien estate. Orcs are essentially a Tolkien thing (after a bit of historical linguistic archaeology on his part) and, in particular, the idea that…

Even sticking to people who speak English, that’s 1.5 billion people. So 5% of that is 75,000,000 people who would recognise the name “Gary Gygax.”