re: In The Godfather, the actress who played Michael's Sicily wife was only 16

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Because we're discussing underage nudity in the 1960's and 70's, not slave trade in the 1400's.

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I have no idea what the slave trade has to do with anything. But applying modern standards to it is pretty uptight. They did not consider 16-17 year olds “children” in the past like we do today, People would get married at young ages. it was also in Europe where they are not nearly as uptight about nude scenes as the US. There have been other European actresses that did nude scenes at that age into the 90s