What does the film "Belle de Jour" suggest about female sexuality?

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"Séverine Serizy is a young, beautiful housewife who has masochistic daydream fantasies about elaborate floggings and bondage. She is married to a doctor (Jean Sorel) and loves him, but cannot share physical intimacy with him. A male friend, Monsieur Husson, (Michel Piccoli) mentions a high-class brothel to Séverine, also confessing his desire for her, and she secretly manages to work at the brothel during the afternoon (using the pseudonym Belle de jour). The brothel is run by Madame Anaïs, (Geneviève Page). Séverine will only work from two to five o'clock each day, returning to her blissfully unaware husband in the evening, but she attends only intermittently."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_de_jour

Do women have to hide their desires, their secrets? Is it ironic for a woman to find liberation in prostitution and S&M?
 
wouldnt be suprised if feminist try censor it. The only things they dont censor are men getting genitals cut off like lorenna bobbit did.
 
I wouldn't say ironic. I would say your movie suggests it is diverse, if not more, than men's sexuality.

You should check out My Secret Garden by Nancy Friday.
 
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