Word: interruptus
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...were the long, and I suspect often deadly, trail-out of the Old Era. We were of the prewar world, notwithstanding the giant, murderous orgasm of the war, itself terminating in the A-bombs over Japan--an apparent note of finality, of something finished! But it was only coitus interruptus and I don't think many of us knew it. There was Korea, while we were still in college. The H-Bomb. Always Berlin: facing down the Russkies--who, with Stalin as Dreamer-in-Chief, were surely well-caught in their own ghastly dream. Our dream led right into...
...seduced me." Comedienne Joan Rivers spent $42 on a brand new dress for the big event. "The whole thing lasted about a minute and a half," she reported, "including buying the dress." Actor Jack Lemmon was a student at Harvard whose big encounter became a case of coitus interruptus when a parking-lot attendant discovered him entangled with a girl in a borrowed convertible. Said Lemmon: "If that didn't turn me off, nothing would." Despite such traumas, the first time was never the last for the Flemings' subjects. Actress Mae West, 83, who first performed...
...France in 1967, evidently most of the French agree with the late President Charles de Gaulle's celebrated dictum that the pill is a mere "diversion," which the state has no obligation to provide for its citizens. Some 54% of the men said that they still practice coitus interruptus, and most of the women prefer the unreliable "rhythm method." Only 9% of the women take the pill, while some 30% of all those polled said that they are opposed to any form of birth control. Many were skittish about answering questions regarding masturbation and homosexuality, and some declined...
Their gringoized culture seems to them slightly sluttish. Their thinking is "cogitus interruptus." Only occasionally is there a political edge to their talk. Toward the end of the novel, the actor says without much conviction that he is going to join the guerrillas in the mountains. The announcement causes little stir, and is swept away by the barman...
...kiss seems to have been one of the higher forms of contemplation. It was, Perella says, the "terminus," not the "prelude" to lovemaking. As such, kissing fitted perfectly into the medieval concept that there are dynamic benefits to be had from unsatisfied physical desire. Sexual release killed love; amor Interruptus not only kept love pure and burning but could also, as part of a cultural self-improvement program, lead the lover to moral excellence...