Word: lechers
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That can be difficult to do. One reason, suggests Martin Berezin, past president of the Boston Society for Geriatric Psychiatry, is that "when old people were young they regarded an old man who was interested in sex as a lecher. So when they're old they're embarrassed by their own continuing needs. What was considered virility at 25 becomes lechery at 65." As a result, says Gene Borowitz, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Illinois, "the elderly often try to suppress their sexual desires." That needlessly impoverishes their lives; according to Masters and Johnson, sexual...
...more Humphrey flashes back, trying to individualize the Renshaws, the more they seem to merge as a single literary convention, the official folk hero of latter-day Southern fiction: epic hunter, epic drinker, epic lecher, with the classic weakness for a maddening black girl down among the cabins. Humphrey is accomplished at what he does and is moved by his own myth. But he cannot surmount the clich...
...rate, young Whalen is an ex-junky, an inept lecher, and a petulant, sadistic jerk. Even such a figure might conceivably be observed to good effect, but Kosinski perceives nothing of unusual interest in the homunculus he has created. A succession of brief, turgid scenes demonstrates Whalen's emptiness, a quality that is never in doubt; nothing in the book offers any insight into the author's reasons for pursuing such an unrewarding project. One of Kosinski's few gestures toward literary excellence amounts to a stylistic tic: his repeated use of Grim Bits from Mother Nature...
...Homecoming is a brutal play. Pinter forces you to laugh at a group of people who are so miserable, so maladjusted, so sick, that they are grotesquely funny, Max, the retired butcher, is an ugly old lecher who retaliates for the abuse heaped on him by his wealthy pimp of a son by browbeating his wimpy brother, a sixty-three-year-old chauffeur. Into the mixture comes Teddy, Max's oldest son, a professor at an American university, who seems at first to be the only normal member of the family. But Teddy lets his wife go whoring with both...
...ignores every dramatic basic. It lacks conflict. Its characters are unreal and undeveloped, and it fosters no affinity between the playgoer and the players. Noah's three sons are, respectively, a lout (Shem), a lecher (Ham) and a moral prig (Japheth). Noah straightens out their biblically unrecorded sexual hang-ups like a pre-lst century marriage counselor and spars in spurious stage-generation-gap fashion with his youngest son, who is skeptical about the Divine Establishment...