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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 Will Fear No Evil and Ayn Rand in The Fountainhead. 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 Rand. Although Miss 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 John Duigan.
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 Marilyn Monroe singing Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend in Gentlemen Prefer Blonds and Rita Heyworth singing Put The Blame On Mame in Gilda.
All of Duigan's movies, including The Year My Voice 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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