Word: eroticizing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The book is as full of holes as some of the bullet-sieved characters. Roxie Hart (Gwen Verdon), a honky-tonk '20s entertainer, murders her lover and beats the rap, thanks to a slick mouthpiece, Billy Flynn (Jerry Orbach). This scarcely matters. What matters is the erotic poetry in...
Having seen a number of erotic movies, including the much advertised Deep Throat, they seem to me to be so lacking in style, and taste, and beauty. I mean, physical sex is a beautiful thing, it ought to be really. And I thought it would be rather fun to write...
44-50: SETTLING DOWN. A Stable time: the die is cast, decisions must be lived with, and life settles down. There is increasing attention to a few old values and a few friends. Money is less important. Gould sees married people turning to their spouses for sympathy as they once...
And so the stage is set for a traditional web of romantic and erotic involvements that was spun out as long ago as Laclos's Les Liaisons Dangeureuses and as recently as Bob and Carol & Ted and Alice. But Beatty has added a new twist: by making a hairdresser his...
Perhaps so. But the specific problem that all the Marias in this book face is the impossibility of loving someone who is seen as your enemy--who is supposed to conquer and possess you--and that is specifically a woman's problem. Eroticism becomes inextricably linked with masochism: women are fruits waiting to be sucked dry, their bodies are battlefields about to have flags implanted upon them, they are eager to "impale themselves upon an enormous pleasure." That women themselves find such images erotic is proof that they have been robbed of their own pornography...