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...book made it sound like a singular piece of middlebrow porno that would bring about a best-selling marriage between the wandering tribe of former Salinger aficionadoes and Jacqueline Susann's camp followers. But Roth reads so quickly and so engagingly that much of what could pass for smut is more parody than prurience. The book lacks the turgid seriousness that marked Updike's Couples as a more perfect example of the genre. Portnoy--who admits to being "the Raskolnikov of jerking off"--refuses to be taken that seriously...
...Peter Pan, when Tinkerbell is dying, and Peter turns to the audience and asks everyone to clap if they believe in fairies? The other day I read a critic who claimed it was all a dirty attempt to make the kiddies accept homosexuality. I was shocked. Not at the smut charge, mind you, but at the critic's inference that I believed in Peter and his boys at all. You just can't be brought up on television and still believe...
...life is governed not only at home but also in a high-class English boarding school where golfing and keeping one's thoughts and actions dirt-free are more important than education. As the housemaster says, "When smuttiness comes smite it. And here we smite smut. Let there be no question about that. Our little golfers knock it for a loop...
...anything goes" theory espoused by Rowan and Martin sums up nicely why Laugh-In is withheld from our five growing children. I won't have my family growing up thinking that it's cute to knock everything, and that they can buy a laugh with smut, double-entendres, or by making household words out of vulgar expressions...
More obnoxious than that coyness is the way Metzger calls on the arts to dress up smut. Carmen, to titillate a bunch of girdled ladies and hot men, performs a dance in which she and a long-stemmed wine bottle make love. Then when she and her policeman are in church--he's praying and she's seducing him--Metzger cuts from her to a picture of the Virgin Mary. From one idol to another...