Word: eroticizing
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To circumvent censorship, Porno, as the film is known, is passed off as a documentary. Clumsily interspersed with the sex scenes are travelogue footage of Denmark and man-on-the-street interviews of the queues entering Copenhagen's 1969 Sex Fair. Police vice squads have raided Porno-once in...
To some biblical scholars in Britain, the new book looked like the psychedelic ravings of a hippie cultist. To others, it was merely an outlandish hoax. One described it as reading "like a Semitic philologist's erotic nightmare."
Allegro's method is to delve behind the surface meaning and context of biblical words, conjuring instead with their frequently erotic root meaning ("Christian," he says, is a derivation from the Sumerian meaning "smeared with semen"). These half-forgotten roots, Allegro maintains, link the characters and stories of the...
The challengers claimed that the law violates their constitutional right to communicate. Moreover, they argued, the law threatens all "junk mail"-not just erotic material. Indeed, the Post Office concedes that some of the 290,000 objectors who have invoked the statute have claimed to be aroused by ads that...
The zaniest play he wrote is now on view off Broadway. What the Butler Saw is basically a Feydeauan farce. Like the great French playwright, Orton recognized that a closed door is funnier, and maybe even more erotic, than an open bed. Orton, like Feydeau, understood that logic carried to...