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There's a guy called John B Root (hehe, hehehehehe! if you're french you'll understand) who has written an open letter to a paper in France defending the country's dissemination of porn on TV. There are increasing threats from the French authorities that X-rated films will be banned from the TVs of the nation.

Root says that "Porn's subject matter is physical love, a theme that has produced countless chefs-d'oevre in painting, in sculpture and in literature. If celluloid sex has never succeeded in hoisting itself to the rank of a cinematographic or televisual genre, it is because we have denied it the right to be economically viable. We would not be having this debate if porn was what it should be: joyous, well-made, aphrodisiac art... respectful of its actors and audience, portraying real people and making sense of its subject matter."

The link is here but the French papers online usually make you pay to search archives so I can't provide any original stories. Arse. However, FILMDECULTE has a good lot of stuff on the guy himself. It's in french though.