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And secondly, the American voter is far less prudish than many assume, a point brought home by another sexual scandal from a different political age.

“It was clear that we couldn’t make a prudish film,” says Lanthimos.

Prudes are going to be prudish, so no point in trying to appease them in a show that’s all about the havoc that’s wrought when human biology is denied by moralistic zealots.

Gay activists who thought she was too prudish.

The embrace of a misleading and prudish term like "abortion trafficking" also illustrates why Republicans are having such trouble reskinning themselves as "moderate" or "compassionate" on the issue of abortion.