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...lifeless water toward the crumpled hills of Moab in Jordan. At 1,300 ft. below sea level, it is the lowest place on earth. Far down to the south is the site of ancient Sodom, now under a few feet of water, and to the north is the monastery of the Essenes at Qumran, where most of their Dead Sea Scrolls were found. Farther, toward Jericho, the mount in the wilderness where Satan tempted Christ. And in the distance to the south, the terrible brow of Masada, where 960 Jewish Zealots committed suicide rather than surrender to the besieging Romans...
...billed as an apocalyptic showdown: A band of scared but stubborn gay Israelis who wanted to celebrate their sexuality on a march through Jerusalem, versus 100,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews who vowed to tear the gays into confetti-sized pieces for turning the Holy City into "Sodom...
Advocates of bringing porn into the classroom insist that studying porn without watching it misses the point. Kipnis screens Saló or 120 Days of Sodom, by the Italian avant-garde filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini, in her obscenity class. The film, updated from the novel by the Marquis de Sade, is set in fascist Italy and depicts a tribunal of powerful men and their sexual torture of teenagers. She says students who had previously espoused staunchly liberal views about freedom of expression often find themselves disgusted and horrified by what they see. "University students are often too cool...
...girl might want to live together is for a) incessant, vigorous sex or b) in order to topple civilization. Call me radical, but I find arguments against this legislation extraordinarily easy to dismantle, as they are, for the most part, based upon archaic Biblical fealty to Sodom and Gomorrah, fire and brimstone (Those crazy gays! It’s the new semitism...
...real story is about to start. After sitting all these characters down to dinner in the first chapter, the author devotes the rest of the book to just one of them: Proust. When he arrived at the Majestic party, the French author was at his peak, having just published Sodom and Gomorrah, the startlingly explicit fourth volume of his Remembrance of Things Past. Six months later he would be dead. Davenport-Hines credits Proust, and a discussion of Remembrance of Things Past with a flirtatious male don, for winning him a place at Cambridge. Here he repays the favor with...