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Probably because it's been postmodernized. Previously Terry (Annette Bening in the new version) was a virgin, perkily defending that status while the threat to her innocence, Mike the Playboy (Warren Beatty), was shadowed by Catholic guilt about his careless ways. (Remember those poignant visits to his wise old auntie's chapel?) These scruples served two functions: they heated up forbidden desires, and they gave a certain bent logic to the three-month hiatus the couple imposed on their affair, ostensibly to shed other commitments, really for the chaste contemplation of this one's radical implications...
Aboud said he is especially proud of the polar bear Rumple Minze ad on page 25 of the magazine. "We haven't seen it since back issues of National Lampoon and Playboy," he said
...able to make three, four or five without a problem. The survey points to a pretty wide range of normality, but says clearly that monogamy is the good life, which we all knew, and that, despite the prurience of the Christian Right and the self-righteousness of Playboy, making love is a wonderful good time. It's no wonder that Senator Helms cut off government funding for the study -- Republican ideology today is so cynical, so hooked on visions of degeneracy and decline that Republicans dare not admit we are a nation of couples having a good time getting naked...
Just how good is America's sex life? Nobody knows for sure. Don't believe the magazine polls that have Americans mating energetically two or three times a week. Those surveys are inflated from the start by the people who fill them out: Playboy subscribers, for example, who brag about their sex lives in reader-survey cards. Even the famous Kinsey studies - which caused such a scandal in the late 1940s and early '50s by reporting that half of American men had extramarital affairs - were deeply flawed. Although Alfred Kinsey was a biologist by training (his expertise was the gall...
...Puritan roots are deep," said Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, striking a philosophical note. "We're fascinated by sex and afraid...