*The Black Pearl

Code d' Odalisque incorporates some oriental sexual symbolism based on analogies between the female vulva and certain shellfish. Even in American slang a woman's genitals might be referred to as a "clam". Clam, oyster, molusc. This is the origin of the word "mool", a word used in Code d' Ode for the female genitals. By extension, there is also the symbolism of the so-called "black pearl". Inside the oyster is the pearl.