The film critic Robin Wood likes to say that there's no such thing as a guilty pleasure - ie it isn't pleasure if there's guilt involved

The magazine Film Comment used to run a 'Guilty Pleasures' column (I think it's where the term first caught on) which allowed toney auteurs and critics to admit that they liked all kinds of rub. When it came to John Waters, his 'guilty pleasures' were all art movies by Bresson, Bergman, Chantal Akkerman etc - END OF FEATURE