sexuality

Book Review: “The Fires of Lust” — Copulation in the Middle Ages

September 13, 2022
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Historian Katherine Harvey’s well-researched and lively book shows that in the Middle Ages lust had its way. Big time.

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Book Review: “Building 46” — Much More than a Chinese Ghost Story

June 13, 2022
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Author and journalist Massoud Hayoun’s novel Building 46 probes behind the air-brushed image of China’s capital city to offer a fascinating (and incisive) look into the everyday lives of Beijing dwellers.

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Book Review: “The Sexual Night” — Origins Unknown

March 21, 2015
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French writer Pascal Quignard strives to peer beyond, or behind, what psychoanalysts typically rationalize as the primal parental realities.

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Film Review: Lars Von Trier’s Nifty “Nymphomaniac: Volume 1”

March 20, 2014
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What makes Lars von Trier one of cinema’s most fascinating directors? It is his willingness to pull out the stops in a riotous search to understand his own mind and ask questions about human nature. His films are a quest to find himself.

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Don Juan — Philosopher of Love

May 22, 2007
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A conversation with Douglas Carlton Abrams, author of the erotically-charged novel “The Lost Diary of Don Juan: An Account of the True Arts of Passion and the Perilous Adventure of Love.” By Bill Marx Readers looking for a retread of Errol Flynn’s antics as the infamous lover will be disappointed — though not grievously so,…

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