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...sleeping with the child. The boy did not know what to make of it, and for the first time, he felt up tight himself. What were these incredibly powerful forces that were being released right before his eyes? Here was a woman lying before him vomiting, then experiencing orgasm, childbirth, orgasm. He could not cope with it. He didn't know what to think, what to do. And he was up tight, not out of any fear or pity for this ugly woman before him. He could not have cared less about her. She might as well have slept with...
...physiological changes were modest. Novice smokers registered an increase in heart rate of 16 beats a min ute on the average (only a small fraction of what occurs at orgasm), while habitual users, who tended to start off with a slower heartbeat, showed a greater but not alarming increase. There was no significant increase in breathing rates. The tests confirmed the widely reported "redeye" effect of pot: the small blood vessels in the whites of the eyes became dilated, and the higher the dose the greater the dilation...
This idea comes out in fiction, where men are impotent and women are insatiable. In The Graduate, Benjamin must undergo ordeal by orgasm before he can act decisively; in Bonnie and Clyde, the woman takes bank robbery and murder in her stride while the man battles paralysis (this is not to say that Bonnie is crudely portrayed). Man must prove himself against the external and feminine. The hero of Malraux's La Voie Royale is driven to conquer nameless woman after nameless woman. The vision of writing that emerges from all this is somewhat masturbatory--the emphasis...
...except for Pleasence's arrogant depiction of Dorff. At one point, he rises in his glass booth to deliver a kind of prose love poem to his Führer. The speech rises toward erotic ecstasy so that the climaxing "Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!" is an orgasm of fanaticism. It terrifyingly evokes Hitler's own idea that the masses are feminine and wish to be seduced...
...first is Lily, a flawless Aryan beauty who represents the unobtainable goal that drives idealists mad and causes them to commit atrocities in her name. Florian, her cynical panderer, is Brother Death himself. Lily's problem is that she is a nymphomaniac who is unable to achieve orgasm. Florian brings her an endless string of ardent customers whom he kills while they are trying vainly to satisfy the great ideal...