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...Zhao calls her becoming an actor "fate's arrangement." She was working toward a degree in teaching but still had that get-out-of-town itch. "I didn't want to live next to my parents forever," she says. She scanned the papers for any opportunity, applying to schools and getting rejected, before she spotted a notice for a new school of film arts to be run by Xie Jin, a director whose career spanned 40 tumultuous years of Chinese history, from the Great Leap Forward in the late '50s to the market economy of the late...
...clanging banalities emitted by sociologists and psychologists trying to pretend they are real scientists. But there is a fundamental point that needs emphasis: sex and love are two totally different things. Sex is essentially selfish. No matter how it is dressed up, it is really about scratching that biological itch, about satisfying an internal hunger. In contrast, love is essentially selfless. It is about giving to another to the point of pain and even death without thought of reward. Sex and love can exist completely independently. There are many examples of sex without love-rape, prostitution and maybe even regular...
...made a startling discovery: many Internet websites present sexy photographs of women. (Men too. Also children and animals.) These two sites, with fat files of stars, listed in alphabetical order by first name, offer a synoptic pictorial history of actresses in various states of dishabille. For cinephiles with an itch for, say, Kathy Bates in ?About Schmidt,? or Dame Judi Dench in her unbuttoned youth - not to mention early Kelly Preston and middle-period Linda Blair - these are the places to scratch. Studying these photos may seem infra dig to my classier readers. But if doctoral students can prepare dissertations...
...even at this unsophisticated stage of sexual maturation, there's more going on in kids than simply developing an exquisite reproductive itch and learning the wonderful ways it can be scratched. "More and more in our field, we don't even talk about sex anymore," says anthropologist Gil Herdt, director of the Program in Human Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University. "We talk about sexuality. It's something that involves the entire person, the whole life course, not just the sexual acts...
...During intercourse, once a woman's genitals are vigorously rubbed and her womb titillated, a lustfulness (an itch) overwhelms her down there, and the feeling of pleasure and warmth pools out through the rest of her body." HIPPOCRATES, physician (circa...