Fellini s movies are about sex, and Peckinpah s movies are about violence, and no one has said they are pornographic. Sex and violence are a part of life, sex and violence are a part of art. They may not naturally be excluded from the dinner table or the movie house any more than politics or religion, Rizal or muro-ami. De los Reyes says I have been quite intense in my columns on this subject. Well, some things have to be defended intensely.
Freedom of expression does.
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