Arts & Culture
Let’s Talk about Sex: On ‘Babygirl’
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In Sigmund Freud’s Madonna-whore complex, some men cannot become aroused by women they perceive as innocent. The Madonna cannot be the disrespected, yet sexually viable, whore. In the modern movie-goer’s Madonna-whore complex, if a female character is not sexual, she is one-dimensional (Madonna). If the female character’s sexuality is overt, she is a male fantasy (whore). This is why many don’t get Halina Reijn’s Babygirl.