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...CALCUTTA! not only offers the most nudity but the handsomest nudes on the New York stage. However, the revels devised by Kenneth Tynan arouse more laughter than eroticism...
...Lolita; Sally Kirkland, actress in several erotic and/or nude plays; Jacques Levy, director of Oh! Calcutta!, America Hurrah and Scuba Duba; Charles Rembar, the attorney who successfully defended Lady Chatterley's Lover, Fanny Hill and Tropic of Cancer against obscenity charges; Terry Southern, author of Candy; Kenneth Tynan, British author, critic and organizer of Oh! Calcutta!; and Dr. Ernest Vandenhaag, New York University psychoanalyst and professor of social philosophy. On these pages are samplings of the conversations...
...Tynan: Pornography seems to me a necessary and useful thing to have around as an adjunct to ordinary sex, and as an alternative to ordinary sex. I think it's a boon to the tired traveler -in a foreign country where he doesn't speak the language or doesn't know anybody. I think it's an absolute social necessity in the case of some people who are ugly and old and lonely, but that does not mean it should only be for the ugly, the old and the lonely. I do think that more good...
Vandenhaag: Mr. Tynan's idea is apparently that pornography can be good, depending, of course, on the quality of who creates it. Now as I think of art, it is not the experience itself, but a reflection upon experience. As Santayana put it, high art cancels lust. My view would be this: the better the writer, the less effective his writing as "pornography" as you defined it, however sexual his subject...
...Tynan: Until quite recently, erotic art was a category of art, accepted as such in China and India. Boucher's paintings for Louis XV were intended to arouse Louis XV, and by all accounts they did. I have been sexually aroused reading D. H. Lawrence, reading Ovid and reading of Hero and Leander. And it was Sir Kenneth Clark who said that anyone who paints a nude with no desire to produce an erotic effect is a hypocrite...