[goldstategop]

You cannot be a great artist without forcibly deflowering a young virgin. Or so we are told in Polanski's defense. Art is above elementary considerations of right and wrong. Polanski's flouting of bourgeois convention only heightens his appeal to his supporters. The defiance of the man is why they have rallied around him. It says a lot more about them than it does about his critics who want to see him pay for his crime.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus

[GladesGuru]

“You cannot be a great artist without forcibly deflowering a young virgin.”

Might this unenlightened one ask when “deflowering”, a word traditionally used to refer to the breaking of the virgin’s hymen during first intercourse, became a substitute for forcible sodomy?

Perhaps “debauched” would have been a better choice of words?

In any case, I am unaware of any artistic tradition of buggering fair young maidens as a milestone on the road to artistic greatness.