Honey69 wrote:
The movie is based on a book that was written by a woman.
That doesn’t change the fact that it would be highly triggering to a lot of women for obvious reasons although I will mention in passing that the screenplay was written by a man and the film was directed by a man.
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At dinner, Mario tells Emmanuelle that monogamy will soon die out and that she must learn to let lust, rather than guilt or reason, guide her when it comes to sex. This will lead her to greater levels of pleasure. To instill this lesson, Mario takes her to an opium den. There, she is raped by one of the denizens while Mario watches.
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In France, feminist viewers complained that the character of Emmanuelle was "an object of male fantasies." In a review from 1974, Variety opined that Emmanuelle was "more a come-on for the civil service than for femme lib."
WikipediaViewers in 2025 from disparate cultures and locations would likely have even more problems with it than they did in 1974.
What “inkling” is the film supposed to give “the ladies” apart from the reminder that there are far worse fates than being alone?
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