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([personal profile] oneiriad Jan. 24th, 2005 06:34 pm)
Americans are strange creatures. A naked nipple on tv will cause nationwide hysterics, but their president can make satanic symbols during the Inauguration and nobody bats an eye. I´ll never learn to understand them...

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Have you seen the movie "The People vs. Larry Flynt"?
There you go.

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Have only seen some tiny bits of it, but those did seem to convey the point, yes.

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Once, I held a speech about the movie in English classes.
The quote of Larry's which affected me the most was this: "I think the real obscenity comes from raising out youth to believe that sex is bad and ugly and dirty. And yet, it is heroic to go spill guts and blood in the most ghastly manner in the name of humanity. With all the taboos attached to sex, it's no wonder we have the problems we have. It's no wonder were angry and violent and genocidal. But, ask yourself the question, what is more obscene: sex or war?"
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