Word: erotica
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...CALCUTTA! is, for a good part of the evening, diverting and civilized, though it scarcely provides the "elegant erotica" that Kenneth Tynan promised. If it gets a minus on eroticism, the show does get two solid plusses for the laughter it evokes and its celebration of the body beautiful...
...theater these days in which the drawing room apes the gutter and nudity is the ultimate in chic. Such plays can be crude (Che!), deviant (Geese) or playful (Hair). For a good part of the evening, Oh! Calcutta! is diverting and civilized, though it scarcely provides the "elegant erotica" that Kenneth Tynan promised when he devised the show. Far from being a sexual stimulant, Oh! Calcutta! is an anaphrodisiac...
...signs of changing morality are clearest when it comes to sex. By no means do a majority endorse a sexual revolution: 76% want pornography outlawed, and 72% believe that erotica robs sexual relations of beauty. Overwhelmingly, 66% to 5%, Americans think that sexual morality is more lax than ever, and they again pinpoint the news media as the principal reason. On the other hand, 16% think that Americans are not really more promiscuous but just talk a lot more about sex. Says Naomi Brock, a South Gate, Calif, housewife: "I suppose it's always been about the same...
...Beethoven-loving American expatriate who now lives in France, Legman has written five books on aspects of erotica, and once worked as a bibliographer for Indiana University's Kinsey Institute for Sex Research. Bulky as it is, Rationale of the Dirty Joke is only the first of two volumes he has written on the subject-and, as Legman warns in his preface, the "cleaner" one at that. Legman's approach to his subject is at once serious, scholarly and slightly disquieting. Any reader who grazes beyond the italics is likely to think twice before telling another dirty joke...
...Nader stage of auto-erotica: a chronological arrangement of 100 carefully detailed 10½-in. by 13¼-in. color renderings of such classic cream puffs as the 1853 Dudgeon Steam Wagon, the 1898 Riker Electric Tricycle and the 1903 Oldsmobile Curved Dash Runabout...