Word: artful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...terribly difficult to combine sex and art without suffering. Ever since Judge Wooley's historic decision on Ulysses, the moneymakers have been trying to imbue pornography with "redeeming social value." Unfortunately, this usually makes for bad pornography and bad art...
...AFTERNOON in snatchland wasn't a total loss. I learned two new positions. Which brings us precisely to the point. As long as pornography must masquerade as art and display redeeming social value it will not be able to do what it can do best. What good pornography can do best besides titillate, is educates. As long as public schools refuse to instruct people visually in the arts of sex. Pornographic films will perform a vital function of introducing people to the appearance and interesting use of sexual organs...
...imaginations hadn't castrated by eleventh grade health teachers, Garbo clothed and smoking a cigarette would be enough to turn us on. In fact eroticism in art derives as much from what is suggested as what is shown--those of us old enough to appreciate eroticism have already found out by took and crook what everything looks like and don't need very much of it unbared on the screen to heighten the impact...
...course none of this means that movies should be censored or directors shouldn't show all they feel necessary. It merely means that it takes a master to combine elements of transcending art with a genre which insists on spelling everything out. So why ruin pornography with redeeming social value? Because I Am Curious would have been a better films if all that remained was a lot of snatchshots and strange positions...
...center ring of our sweaty free-form carnival. That qualification, then: Use anything--from a Times Square News Flasher heralding the scenes to a case of Carling Black Label in the New Tankard Cans at the Last Supper--but use it only with the tact of art, the high decorum which subsists in the meetness of technique and purpose...