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00:00 Sex has always made Americans nervous, particularly in Hollywood.
00:05 Why, today, is a woman still wearing a bra when she makes love in so many American movies?
00:11 Why is sexuality still taboo 40 years after the sexual revolution and the emancipation of women?
00:17 Hollywood cinema is the main witness.
00:20 And that's nothing new.
00:22 In the 30s in Hollywood, sex does not shock.
00:25 But so much sexual freedom finally wakes up the American Puritan League.
00:30 And they force the movie industry to establish the famous code of censorship known as the Hays Code.
00:36 Sex becomes banned overnight.
00:38 But this can't continue.
00:40 The winds of freedom that blow in with the 60s and the mutations that accompany it,
00:44 the pill, the sexual and cultural revolutions, sign the end of the code of censorship.
00:49 America wants sex and believes that the time has arrived.
00:53 America then seems ready to open Pandora's box and talk about sexuality,
00:58 while still failing to show it head-on.
01:00 Sexuality becomes a serious topic.
01:03 Educational films are made for teenagers in adolescent turmoil.
01:06 Americans have always been more comfortable with violence than sex.
01:10 [music]