Film as a Subversive Art

I'm reading this essayon film as a subversive art. I got the link off of Peep Show Stories, but it's such a good read I have to pass it on. Thanks to where the link took me (right in the middle in the erotic section) I came across a quote of sorts on the views of obscenity and sex, by a man named René Guyon, who apparently is not only a famous French sexologist, but also drafted the model legal code for the United Nations. More on him here. Here's what he had to say that really caught my attention. I respect him already.

1. The convention which regards the sexual
organs as shameful is without any foundation in
reason, logic, or physiology; it would be just as
possible and just as foolish to regard the nose,
the tongue, or the act of swallowing, as shameful.

2. The acts accompanying sexual pleasure find
their only and sufficient justification in the pleasure
that they bring; sexual pleasure is therefore just
as admissible as any other natural satisfaction,
and its exercise, in whatsoever form may be
preferred, has nothing to do with the morality,
the virtue or the dignity of either sex.

3. Everybody has the right to exercise quite freely
his own preferences in matters of sex, so long as
he is guilty of no violence or deceit to others;
the right to sexual satisfaction is just as
inalienable as the right to eat.

Classified under: cinema,sexology