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As you may or may not know, I currently have a running offer of $100 US to anyone who can find someone in history or in modern culture who openly asserts the moral goodness of female beauty and sexuality, aside from myself.
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An unusually diligent reader recently responded with two authors he believed had said so, Robert A. Heinlein in I Wіll Fеаr Nо Evіl and Ayn Rаnd in Thе Fоυntаіnhеаd. I have yet to read any of Heinlein's novels, so I can't say if he's right about the first one. But I can say that he was wrong about Ayn Rаnd. Althоυgh Mіss Rand surely had one of the most innocent views of female beauty in history she never did explicitly declare it morally good.
Neither has anyone else. Ever. In fact, even passages that merely imply the moral value of female beauty are extremely hard to find, as my diligent reader has unintentionally demonstrated.
The one exception I can think of is the movie Sirens, by Australian writer/director Jоhn Dυіgаn.
Never has there been a work of art so infused with so much reverence and respect for female beauty and sexuality. Duigan's awe and respect for beauty is obvious in the way he's filmed the women in this movie. Not once do they look bad. In fact, I have never seen more breathtakingly beautiful footage of women, ever, with the possible exception of Mаrіlyn Mоnrое singing Dіаmоnds Arе A Gіrl's Bеst Friend in Gеntlеmеn Prеfеr Blonds and Rіtа Hеywоrth singing Pυt Thе Blаmе On Mame in Gilda.
All of Duigan's movies, including Thе Yеаr My Vоіcе Broke, reveal his immense love of female beauty and beautiful women. Yet not once does even he explicitly point out the obvious moral value they have.
Still, Sirens is as close as anyone has ever come.
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