Conversation so far:
What criticism surrounded Alejandro Jodorowsky?
When Jodorowsky’s first feature film, Fando y Lis, premiered at the 1968 Acapulco Film Festival, the screening was controversial and erupted into a riot, due to its graphic content.
What criticism surrounded Alejandro and the making of El Topo?
Sady Doyle of Elle wrote that Jodorowsky has been teasing of an unsimulated rape scene in El Topo ... though he's described the unsimulated sex in that scene as consensual.

Question: How was that received by others?
Self-contained rewrite: How was Alejandro Jodorowsky's controversial directing received by others?