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...spectators. There is Innocence, for example, which contains what is probably the longest description of oral sex in the history of literature. (This story decidedly did not appear in The New Yorker.) For page after page a Harvard undergraduate named Wiley tries to bring his stubbornly unresponsive girlfriend to orgasm: "The whitish bubbling, the splash of her discontinuous physical response: those waves, ah, that wake rose, curled outward, bubbled, and fell. Rose, curled outward, bubbled, and fell." Little in this prose marathon is particularly erotic or offensive; it is possible for long periods of time to forget entirely what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Atavistic Gondolas | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

...that version, Alex committed suicide to the strains of Madame Butterfly and left Dan's fingerprints on the knife, thus framing him as her murderer. Ironic, Hitchcockian, certainly fatalistic and pretty darned Japanese -- but not satisfying. Says Lyne: "It was like having two hours of foreplay and no orgasm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Killer! Fatal Attraction strikes gold as a parable of sexual guilt | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

...line, as Hite recalls, "The typewriter is so smart she doesn't have to be." On impulse, Hite joined ranks with members of the National Organization for Women who were protesting the ad. In 1971 Hite read a pamphlet in the NOW office, The Myth of Female Orgasm, and decided to create a questionnaire on the issue for a NOW-sponsored "speak-up." As she read the women's responses about their sexuality, "a whole picture of the universe began to fall into place," says Hite. "Without feminism I don't know what I would be doing today. It gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: St.Joe to Fifth Avenue | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

...woman with a mind and libido of her own, much to the exasperation of three swains. Seems like Woody Allen territory, with two important exceptions: the characters and creative team are black, and just about everyone is straining as hard for effect as Nola is for the perfect orgasm. If the film were as good as its intentions, She's Gotta Have It might have earned the critical and popular praise lavished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: Oct. 6, 1986 | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

Wanda: Let me tell you a little secret, Ralph. I married a lout. Who cares about the technology of orgasm? Sex is supposed to be part of a relationship, not a high school biology course. Some women have orgasms without contractions, and the white coats smile down and say, "Sorry, we can't count those because we can't measure them." Same old stuff of males using science to define and control women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: On the Trail of the Big O | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

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