Word: sexualizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...collection's title story, Englander follows the sufferings of an Orthodox man who must seek alternative satisfaction when his wife refuses to make love to him. Finding his sexual desires "unbearable," Dov Binyamin receives a "special dispensation" from the Rebbe to visit a prostitute. In theory, this excused adultery will save the marriage by reducing sexual pressure. Not surprisingly, the Rebbe's solution causes as many problems as it solves, and after a series of funny and uncomfortable dialogues with two prostitutes and a cab driver, the story ends with a sorrowfully ironic twist rather similar to that...
...Secondary to the main subplots of the movie, but certainly a unifying character, is Todd (Timothy Olyphant). He has many relationships: Simon's friend and provider, Ronna's drug connection, the ultimate target of the police sting and the object of Claire's budding sexual interest. Olyphant's Todd is sinister and alluring, the embodiment of a bad boy who can be both repelling and difficult to resist. Second only to Polley, Olyphant is a stand-out on screen...
Secondary to the main subplots of the movie butcertainly a unifying character, is Todd (TimothyOlyphant). He has many relationships: Simon'sfriend and provider, Ronna's drug connection, theultimate target of the police sting and the objectof Claire's budding sexual interest. Olyphant'sTodd is sinister and alluring, the embodiment of abad boy who can be both repelling and difficultto resist. Second only to Polley, Olyphant is astand-out on screen...
However, Ford countered that "violence itself is very sexual", and the act of conquest is part of the erotica experience...
Refuting the idea of the male inability to write effective lesbian erotica, Ford commented that arousing women is simple in that there are only a "limited number of sexual things you can do to make a woman feel good...