Word: erotica
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Over the whole range of literature, only erotica functions differently. If it works, sexual arousal is real, not imaginary. And if it doesn't work? The most recent example is Harold Brodkey's novel Profane Friendship (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 387 pages; $23). The author tells of a long, intensely erotic affair between the narrator, an American novelist named Nino, and an Italian named Onni. The names are anagrams of each other -- different stirrings of the same ingredients, including the same...
...these are the essence of the book. Such thoughts, of course, must occur regularly to gays when they read about hetero sex. You don't have to be a rabbit to enjoy Beatrix Potter, but you may have to be either gay or straight to appreciate gay or straight erotica...
Boston Symphony Orchestra. Symphony Hall, 301 Mass. Ave., Boston. 266-1200. Performs Stravinsky's "Petrushka" and Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, "Erotica" on March 17 at 10:30 a.m. and 8 p.m.; March 18 at 1:30 p.m. and March...
...Vault used to contain what we call XR material," said Kevin M. Tierney, the circulation supervisor. "Playboy, Yellow Silk [a journal of erotica], "The joy of Sex" and other assorted erotica. People think XR stands for X-rating, but I don't know what it stands...
Some of the matters that the group will discusswith the Administration this fall include plansfor an archive of materials by and about gays,lesbians and bisexuals, a resource center and apostering campaign of lesbian erotica, Outcaultsaid...