In the United Kingdom, it became a cause célèbre for censors. Lord Longford and Mary Whitehouse, stalwarts of traditional morality, were appalled. Yet, the film’s "educational" veneer gave it a loophole. Because it was framed as a documentary rather than entertainment, it managed to bypass certain obscenity laws, drawing massive crowds of curious viewers who had never seen anything like it.
This was the year love became a subject for scientific and feminist deconstruction. language of love 1969