"I met Margherita at a friend's party: she was 18 years old, I 24-25, I went to the piano and I conquered her. She was in the last year at La Scala, a dancer with a great future, then King Kong arrived to defeat everything . We got married, we immediately had our two children of whom we are very happy: I have the sense of guilt for having interrupted their career, even if she assures that she has no regrets. Even today there is a lot of affection between us, a lot of love " . Passionate, ironic, delicate, surprising, Piero Angela tells about himself and indicates with serene awareness the recipe for a union that has lasted for 66 years, "respect, esteem for the partner, tolerance, attention to correctness, including verbal, otherwise the couple's relationships break like bread sticks ".
The occasion is the new Superquark + series, ten fifteen-minute episodes from 21 October exclusively on RaiPlay, in which the patriarch of disclosure investigates the science of love, from attraction to falling in love, from the choice of partner to the health of the sex, from jealousy to betrayal to the absence of children, accompanied in the traditional virtual study by reports, interviews with experts and interventions by the five young researchers-disseminators who were also protagonists of the first season, "a very good team, composed mainly of women", points out. To seal each episode, ten short cartoons by Bruno Bozzetto that address sexuality by mixing scientific rigor and irony.
"I have dealt not so much personally as professionally with these issues, love and sexuality. Years ago I wrote a book, 'I will love you forever', involving my daughter who helped me procure 400 international research and studies. In short, I applied myself ", he begins with a smile. And he premises: "The whole range of aspects of love, emotions, feelings, fears, joys, sexuality are also valid for homosexuals who fall in love, want to live together and have children just like heterosexuals". There are many ideas, from the chemistry of attraction, that "love at first sight" which is no guarantee of the duration of a relationship ("indeed, statistics say that marriages based on the harmony of tastes, interests, values last longer") , in search ofsoul mate, which "today is done with speed dates, once with marriage announcements, which usually began with the word 'illibata'". The health of sex, "a problem because young people get information on the web and often go to the top, they don't talk about it with their parents and so 20% of pregnancies depend on the famous 'backtracking'". Pleasure, "the honey that has put evolution to push the transmission of life". Paternity, "mater always certain, said the Latins: and the certainty of paternity has played a crucial role in the female condition". Jealousy, "a question of biochemistry and hormones" which becomes complicated "when the cultural factor of possession intervenes". The birth rate, a dramatic challenge for a society "in which the active population is decreasing more and more. Italy is the only European country in which more is spent on the elderly than on the young: children do not vote, the elderly do ", underlines Piero Angela, 93 next December 22, who defines himself as" out of the ordinary: when I was born the life expectancy was 52 years ".
Cita Tinto Brass ("there is reproductive and recreational sex"), reveals that "Mata Hari got married through a marriage announcement", imitates Fantozzi, defines female liberation "a by-product of oil, because the possibility of going to school marked the end of the subjection of women. Once there was a hierarchy in couples, the man had the exclusive economic, cultural and political power. freedom and dignity are rightly valued ". Piero Angela's hope is that this "mini encyclopedia on sex and love will trace a mosaic that is reassembled, providing food for thought". The best compliment, perhaps, was given to him by ajanitor at work in her TV studio: "I used to go to the gynecologist, next time I'll come to her".