We tend to judge our own North American sensibilities harshly when it comes to issues of sex and assume that Europeans are much more mature.

I'm here to tell you that that's not always the case. Almodovar aside, many popular movies from Spain have a tittering quality about them, particularly as regards homosexuality. In many respects, movies like My Mother Likes Women and the recent musical The Other Side Of The Bed treat gays mainly as exotic birds, punchlines and plot devices, a la Hollywood in the '80s.
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