Word: sperm
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Many of the ideas sound good on paper: in "What happens during ejaculation?" Woody plays a nervous sperm; in "What is sodomy?" Gene Wilder appears as a nice Jewish doctor who lusts after a sheep. The laughs, though, remain mostly in the silliness and audacity of the notions themselves. The skits wind down rather than take off from the ideas...
...About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask). The relationship to Dr. David Reuben's bestseller is tenuous, and the movie will probably deserve an R rating (for Rabelaisian). In it, Gene Wilder plays a doctor madly in love with a sheep; and Allen plays, among other wonders, a sperm cell, a libidinous fail ure named Victor Shakapopolis, a spider, and a court jester caught by a king in the arms of a queen. For the film, Allen has written sketches starring Burt Reynolds, Heather MacRae, Lynn Redgrave and John Carradine as victims of everything from satyriasis to frigidity...
Unlike the physical sciences, the behavioral disciplines offer no absolutes. On practically any issue, "scientific" evidence is used to support diametrically opposite points of view. Take vasectomy, for example. According to one recently reported investigation, this procedure for male sterilization (in which the tubes that transport sperm are severed) makes sex more pleasurable and marriage happier. According to another, the operation can lead to less satisfying sex, and ultimately to separation and divorce...
...look at other areas of our technology that have, or will have, great impact on our daily lives: What are we to say about the proposals of some geneticists that sexual reproduction be replaced by the banking of the sperm and eggs of men and women "of proven genetic worth?" Fertilization could be guided artificially, then the zygote could be implanted in a host mother. Who is to decide what are "desirable" genes, and by what method...
There is a 45-day waiting period, for example, before sperm can be withdrawn from the bank-long enough to prevent an already pregnant woman from using artificial insemination as a cover-up for an illegitimate baby. That waiting period does not apply, however, to a man who wishes his sperm destroyed: that can be done immediately, the Depositor's Handbook guarantees. The same swift fate awaits the ejaculate of a man who fails to keep up his support payments; in Manhattan those payments amount to $18 a year, after the initial deposit...