ROME, ITALY — Regardless of whether it’s polite or not, filming your sweetheart while they’re having sex with you is a-okay according to the Italian Supreme Court – even if your sweetheart doesn’t know you’re doing it.Whether you should at least go to confession and tell a priest about it is not addressed by the recent court decision.

The issue was resolved due to a court case rising from what may have been a too-amiable break-up. Or perhaps a well-deserved break-up.

In the case in question, the ex-girlfriend of the now-acquitted amateur pornographer had taken it poorly when she discovered that the live sex images she had agreed to let her boyfriend project onto the bedroom wall had also been recording on film.

She learned the truth when he handed her a package of tapes when they officially broke up. He also handed her a note reading “These are my last thoughts of you.”

The saving legal grace for the 49-year-old man had been the fact he’d kept his surreptitious home videos to himself, instead of sharing or selling them to others.

Potential future girlfriends might want to be aware of this legal and philosophical technicality.