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...most states, nudity itself cannot be prohibited under the law, nor can lewd be presumed from nude. Official reactions tend to reflect community attitudes, which range from indifferent to amused to enraged. Asked to rule on the "nudity problem" early in July, the Los Angeles city council voted 9 to 4 in favor of establishing "clothing optional" areas on city beaches. After a volley of protests the issue was re-voted. This time the decision swung 12 to 1 against public nude bathing...
...Mere "depiction of a woman with a bare midriff," said Justice William Rehnquist speaking for the court, would not disqualify a film from the protection of the First Amendment. While the Carnal Knowledge narrative fairly seethes with sex, he noted, "there is no exhibition of the actors' genitals, lewd or otherwise, during these scenes." Local juries, Rehnquist concluded, should not assume that they have been given "unbridled discretion" in judging obscenity cases...
This time Justice Rehnquist tried again to make the high court's definition of hard-core porn sharp and clear. Communities, he repeated, can prosecute "representations or descriptions of ultimate sexual acts, normal or perverted, actual or simulated, [or] masturbation, excretory functions and lewd exhibition of the genitals...
...nudity and sex then, only reinforce this theme, for "anything goes" in the hero's view. The label of "gross and lewd" seems a misnomer to the almost visually boring scene of a girl strapped nude to a chair for twenty long minutes. The sexual act itself is performed so perfunctorily (in a record 27 seconds in one showing) that those titillated couldn't have progressed beyond what the hero remembers as his own eighth grade attitude towards sex: getting off on National Geographic pics of naked African women...
EATING BECOMES A LEWD act. Mastroianni, however, longs for real sex, so he calls for his tarts. One of these whores throws herself naked on a cake; sex and eating become one and the same. Except in that director Marco Ferreri depicts eating in complete pornographic detail while restricting his portrayal of sex to angles and acts which coyly protect his male stars and are well within the soft-core boundaries of major studio productions...