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	Italian Bishops Demand Actors Refuse to Take Part in Sex Scenes By Robert Paul Reyes American Chronicle February 17, 2008 http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/52692 "A row has erupted over 'Vatican interference' after the Italian Synod of Bishops appealed to actors to exercise their consciences and refuse to take part in 'vulgar and destructive' erotic scenes in films. The appeal follows public condemnation by the bishops of an explicit sex scene in Caos Calmo, starring the Italian actor and director Nanni Moretti, which has just been released.... Father Nicolò Anselmi, head of the youth section of the Italian Bishops Conference, said that Moretti was normally noted for his 'idealistic and sensitive' films. But the 'gratuitous' sex scene with Isabella Ferrari, his co-star, would have an undesirable effect on the "impressionable young" since it was shown without any context involving love or tenderness." The Italian Synod of Bishops should concern themselves with weeding out vulgar and destructive pedophile priests and stop interfering with works of art. An erotic scene is not inherently vulgar or destructive; leave it to the Roman Catholic Church to automatically condemn any sex scene regardless of its artistic merit. The Italian Bishops complain that the erotic scene was shown without any context involving love or tenderness. In real life sex often doesn't involve love or tenderness; who the hell are they to dictate to an independent director the context in which he can film a sex scene. The idea of a celibate priest giving advice to a director how to film a sex scene is ludicrous beyond belief. Hardcore pornography is freely available to impressionable youth online; I doubt that a sex scene in a movie will lead children astray. The Italian Bishops need to chill out; I advice them to rent a copy of "Debbie Does Dallas", or "Vicki Does The Vatican."
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