Word: sexualism
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Daniels is sweet. He recalls his squeamishness on learning that Anna Paquin, who played his daughter in the save-the-geese weepie Fly Away Home, had been cast as his sort-of love interest in Squid. When they had to shoot a short sexual encounter, he says, "we tried not to think about ... you know, geese...
...those separate personalities," says Joe Scroppo, a clinical psychologist and director of North Shore University Hospital's Forensic Psychiatry Program in Manhasset, N.Y., "but I don't think that's necessarily the way it is." Studies have suggested that patients can be convinced that they have memories of childhood sexual abuse that never actually occurred. And sometimes, says Scroppo, therapists use multiple personality as a metaphor for a patient's mental state, and then the patient--and therapist--begin to mistake the metaphor for reality...
...exuberant masculinist writer Henry Miller (“Tropic of Cancer”) and his bisexual spitfire of a wife June, and Nin immediately falls for her beauty and his writing. June soon leaves, allowing the married Nin to begin an affair with Henry, which leads to her complete sexual awakening. It is an emotional and captivating true narrative matched perfectly by Nin’s prose, which has a Hemmingwayian sparseness and raw force, but is directed within to her own emotional life. A must read for boys and girls of all ages, particularly during the perpetually confusing college...
Savage’s nefarious—and perhaps illegal—stunt notwithstanding, his talk at the Brattle tomorrow will likely rivet listeners of all political and sexual orientations. But you might think twice before shaking his hand—especially if you’re a Republican...
Complexly satiric and tragic, Lulu is a portrayal of an uncommonly animalistic female sexuality. And yet this devouring, voyeuristic female role is a lens through which to comment on the harm of social divisions. It’s a conclusion reached through the unusual device of maintaining Lulu’s overt sexuality from the height of her social stature through her decline and fall. Lulu embodies the commonality that bonds humanity: the sexual craving...