A Married Woman was recommended for banning by France's Commission de la Censure. Much of its footage consists of couples in bed with no clothes on. But what turned out to be worrying the Commission was not nudity but an implied slur on the grandeur of French domesticity; the ban was rescinded when the article in the title was changed from The to A, no longer implying that the adulterous lady in question was typical of women in France. And anyway, those naked bodies in bed are about as sexy as an illustrated lecture on dermatology−lots of skin, but all...
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