‘There’s flesh everywhere’: Inside Gregg Araki’s I Want Your Sex

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During the Hays Code era, when Hollywood operated under a self-imposed system of censorship from 1934 to 1968, sex could only be alluded to on screen: a closed door, fireworks exploding in the night sky, a train entering a tunnel. In more recent decades, directors have had greater freedom over what they can show, including sex, the occasional nipple and even, sometimes, a flaccid penis. Our reactions to on-screen intimacy have naturally evolved alongside wider culturalhellip;read more raquo;