A Dutch film crew went around Rio and asked older people to read aloud for the camera the erotic verses of Carlos Drummond De Andrade, Brazil's poet laureate. The poems were explicit but not pornographic (whatever that is) and the people read them with no sign of self- consciousness.
The film ended up being a celebration of sensuality and sexuality, an affirmation of one of life's primal forces. I couldn't help but wonder what's wrong with our culture, what's wrong with us as a people that we see this topic as something dirty, something to be ashamed of, something to hide, to treat as unspeakable. Shame on us.
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