Word: orgasm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Moore's words, Language "stars four of what are apparently leading Scandinavian sexual technocrats, with brilliant cameo roles for the functioning flesh of various unnamed actors." The pedigreed experts drone on about the psychology of orgasm while nude sexual acrobats perform illustrations. "It purports to be an animated Little Golden Book of marital relations," wrote Judge Moore, "or perhaps the Kama Sutra of electronic media, although the film is nowhere nearly as rich in the variety of its smorgasbord of delights as comparison with that ancient Hindu classic might suggest. It may be the vulgate scripture, the Popular Mechanics...
...duty. "Feel!" has become the new moral imperative. The original puritan denied the feelings he had. The reverse puritan boasts of feelings he does not have, writing rubber checks on love in capital letters. Captive to a new perfectionism, he flagellates himself equally for his marginal failures at orgasm and for his secret indifference toward minorities, for relating badly to his children and for not relating at all to the children of Pakistan...
...stumbled blindly across the stage out the door the cast does a copulation mime that features a man with an enormous dildo and a woman with pubic hair drawn on her leotard. It is like the TV show "Shindig," as the chorus groans antiphonally up to a very convincing orgasm. Lights out. That's demystification, allright, but it's also a pretty cheap trick to play on the Oedipus story...
...often get published from the sheer momentum of a downsliding career, contains such elegies of West Side New York as "Sunsets over New Jersey" and such Commen-tariana as "Orthodoxy and Orthodontics." Bech has also succumbed to the siren song of journalism with such artides as "The Landscape of Orgasm" (House and Garden) and "My Favorite Christmas Carol" (Playboy...
...other sexual bestseller, The Sensuous Woman, by "J" (Lyle Stuart; $6), reads like a put-on. It probably isn't. Purportedly addressed to women, the book is a do-it-yourself guide to sexual fulfillment. As one step toward achieving orgasm, it recommends masturbation "to your heart's content"-advice that the author claims to have followed herself. Behind the pseudonymous "J" is Missouri-born Joan Garrity, 31, who has worked in public relations for several Manhattan publishing firms...