The Law: Popular Mechanics of Sex

The latest Swedish film to hurdle U.S. obscenity laws is Language of Love, a clinical excursion into pseudo sex education. Seized by customs agents in New York last year, Language was released by a U.S. court of appeals decision last week. In a witty opinion, Judge Leonard P. Moore explained why Americans who can endure the film are entitled to do so.

In Moore's words, Language "stars four of what are apparently leading Scandinavian sexual technocrats, with brilliant cameo roles for the functioning flesh of various unnamed actors." The pedigreed experts drone on about the psychology of orgasm while nude sexual...

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