Help, I’m an Internalized Prude!

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There is nothing wrong with sex scenes. Is less more? True. Sometimes too many penises spoil the . . . I’ll let you choose your own adventure on that one.

In America, we are very weird about sex, thanks to that first layer of Puritan pudding. Then came the cookie-cutter right-wing sensibility. Even today, talk show hosts and interviewers ask the same A-to-B questions about sex and nudity on camera. I can’t…