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Catherine Deneuve defense of flirting is an expression of the necesity of resisting the invasion of American moral fast food. Americans would like to have you think that their categories for the moralization politics transcend (as Oprah, put it,) culture, race, nation, etc....  The parrochialism of the American mind ‘s eye is suspended in a form of perpetual tourism. It often only sees the world through its native categories, native language, native desires, native fears and native aspirations. And most certainly, something so fundamental as sexual disposition can only be understood as the universality of American sexual morality and dynamics. All else, remains beyond the margins of the comprehensible or imaginable. 

While we may want sexual violence to be universally condemned, we can understand that it simply is not. But the typology of sexual violence, that is what sexual violence actually is cannot be left to a machine of political imbecility with its hypertrophic sense of moral certainty and enormous PR machine to determine.  What constitutes sexual violence is the most important of questions and American society, by and large, is in no position to answer it for the rest of us. The society that through its institutions and corporations have managed to regulate out of the difgital Frenfch public sphere the distribution of Courbert's „L‘origine du monde“   should not be giving the French lessons of prudence, decorum and sexual morality.