Laurey swims without clothes in a pond, perhaps inspired by Hedy LaMarr's swim in Ecstasy.
In a dream ballet sequence, Laurey imagines that she accidentally enters a whorehouse. There is no sex or nudity, however, just some dance hall girls.
There is discussion of a small kaleidoscope called "The Little Wonder". When a person looks through it, he/she sees suggestive pictures (which are never actually shown onscreen).
Jud tries to force Laurey to kiss him at one point.
Jud has a fondness for dirty postcards (which are never shown onscreen, although there is reference to a naked woman at one point).
Ado Annie, a young woman who apparently can't resist any man, spends the night under a haystack with the peddler Ali Hakim (though this is not shown), prompting her father to demand that the peddler marry her. The peddler compares Annie to a Persian kitten because Persian kittens have "soft round tails".