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...later, how differently it reads! Every pair of holes in the mesh has a strand of gray plastic tubing threaded through it, the ends pointing inward. The whole inside of the cube is lined with these enormous glossy hairs. You can't not see it as organic: sea anemone, vagina. And it refers back culturally too, since its obvious predecessor is that icon of oral sex in the Museum of Modern Art, Meret Oppenheim's fur-lined cup and spoon. What happens then to the famous hands-off character of Minimalism -- austere objects fabricated by remote control, factory-made...
...nerd-meets-girl, nerd-gets-girl story, laced throughout with sex, sex, sex. But no skin flick here. Just innuendo and a good-taste-be-damned-scene staged inside a woman's vagina. Plenty of condoms, plenty of high school bullies and ever-short-skirted cheer-leaders, and of course, a girls' locker room shower scene...
...level of the hormone testosterone is also required during the pregnancy. Where does it come from? The fetus' own undescended testes. In those rare cases in which the tiny body does not respond to the hormone, a genetically male fetus develops sex organs that look like a clitoris and vagina rather than a penis. Such people look and act female. The majority marry and adopt children...
...Women have higher odds of being infected by an HIV-positive man than the reverse. Infected semen can remain in the vagina and uterus for days. And the tissues of the vagina, though tougher than those in the anus, can also be torn during intercourse. A man, however, is exposed to vaginal secretions only during the sexual act itself. Unless he has genital ulcers or a cut on the penis, the chances of being infected are small...
Whichever, it's the brainchild of Faith and Jill Soloway, sisters and members of Chicago's Metraform Theater, an underground group whose other theatrical pranks have included Coed Prison Sluts, The Miss Vagina Pageant and That Darned Antichrist. One afternoon last year an actor friend of theirs, Becky Thyre, was at Faith's home entertaining them with an impersonation of Marcia, the eldest Brady girl. A light bulb went off for the trio of self- described "Brady obsessors": Why not put an entire Brady episode onstage? "We discussed screwing with the story lines and updating them, making them...