"Young people are so exposed to sex on the internet and at the same time schools are very prudish," she said.

And secondly, the American voter is far less prudish than many assume, a point brought home by another sexual scandal from a different political age.

“It was clear that we couldn’t make a prudish film,” says Lanthimos.

Prudes are going to be prudish, so no point in trying to appease them in a show that’s all about the havoc that’s wrought when human biology is denied by moralistic zealots.

Gay activists who thought she was too prudish.