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Winslet defends 'Reader' sex scenes

Published Monday, Dec 8 2008, 07:50 GMT | By Michael Thornton
Winslet defends 'Reader' sex scenes

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Kate Winslet has defended the sex scenes in her new movie The Reader.

The British actress plays a former Nazi concentration camp officer who has an affair with a younger man in the movie, which has been accused of trivialising the Holocaust by featuring too much sex.

However, Winslet revealed that she believes that the love scenes serve a purpose in the story. "There is a lot of nudity in the beginning but it's 100% justified," she told the New York Daily News.

"Also, the relationship is not about sex. It's about how this young man reads her beautiful stories and poetry."

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