On TV, the children can watch people murdering each other, which is a very unnatural thing, but they can't watch two people in the very natural process of making love. Now, really, that doesn't make any sense, does it?
Interpretation
The quote highlights the absurdity of societal norms regarding media content, emphasizing a preference for violence over natural expressions of love.
Sharon Tate's quote points out the paradox in media regulations where violent acts are deemed acceptable for public consumption, while the natural act of love is censored. This reflects broader societal attitudes towards sex and violence, suggesting that the suppression of love in media creates an unhealthy dichotomy that fails to represent human experience authentically.
In practice
During a discussion on media regulations at a film festival.
The outstretched arms of Jesus exclude no one, not the drunk in the doorway, the panhandler on the street, gays and lesbians in their isolation, the most selfish and ungrateful in their cocoons, the most unjust of employers and the most overweening of snobs. The love of Christ embraces all without exception.
I thought I would love you forever—and, a little, I may, in the way I still move toward a crate, knees bent, or reach for a man: as one might stretch for the three or four fruit that lie in the sun at the top of the tree; too ripe for any moment but this, they open their skin at first touch, yielding sweetness, sweetness and heat, and in me, each time since, the answering yes.
She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love .
To love is human. To feel pain is human. Yet to still love despite the pain is pure angel.
That kind of love - the kind you realize you already have by the life you've created together - that's the kind that lasts.
Oh, love, what an unreasoning creature it grew to be.
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