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> <channel><title>California Literary Review &#187; Sex</title> <atom:link href="http://calitreview.com/category/topics/sex/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://calitreview.com</link> <description>An arts and culture magazine.</description> <lastBuildDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 17:23:39 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2</generator> <item><title>Book Review: Good in a Crisis by Margaret Overton</title><link>http://calitreview.com/24499</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/24499#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Chris Malcomb</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Good in a Crisis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Margaret Overton]]></category> <category><![CDATA[memoir]]></category> <category><![CDATA[relationships]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=24499</guid> <description><![CDATA[By withholding nearly all the details of her marriage, upbringing, and formative relationships with men (and women), she misses the opportunity for a more genuine self-realization and creates a void of understanding that tempts the reader to see <em>all</em> men in this light. This is disappointing on both fronts. There may be kind, compassionate, thoughtful men out there — one or two even exist in the book — but somehow they are not accessible to her. The question she really never asks is: Why?]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/24499/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Weekly Listicle Is Rated NC-17</title><link>http://calitreview.com/22021</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/22021#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:55:19 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Best Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bernardo Bertolucci]]></category> <category><![CDATA[censorship]]></category> <category><![CDATA[dark comedy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[David Cronenberg]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie rating]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie ratings]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies adult]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies comedy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies Drama]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies romance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mpaa]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mpaa rating]]></category> <category><![CDATA[MPAA ratings]]></category> <category><![CDATA[NC-17]]></category> <category><![CDATA[NC-17 rating]]></category> <category><![CDATA[NC17]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Peter Greenaway]]></category> <category><![CDATA[X rating]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=22021</guid> <description><![CDATA[Censors save the NC-17 rating for extra special cases, and in practice it feels like much less artificial than, say, PG-13. Something about these films transcended the extremely liberal boundaries of the R rating, and in most cases the reasons are still apparent.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/22021/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Bloody Sexy Things: Adapting Clive Barker</title><link>http://calitreview.com/17928</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/17928#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:21:45 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Best Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gay and Lesbian]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Graphic Novels]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Horror]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Science Fiction and Fantasy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[adaptation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[authors]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Candyman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Clive Barker]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hellraiser]]></category> <category><![CDATA[midnight meat train]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies fantasy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies horror]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies thriller]]></category> <category><![CDATA[nightbreed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[screenwriting]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=17928</guid> <description><![CDATA[Clive Barker has lent his eyes and hands to virtually every medium, from page to the screen to the stage to the canvas to the console. However, film fans know him particularly as a horror master. There is so much undermined material for gifted fantasy filmmakers that perhaps we could dispense with further <em>Candyman</em> sequels and retire the <em>Hellraiser</em> juggernaut with contented hearts, and enjoy a Clive Barker renaissance clad in all new colors.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/17928/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Valentine&#8217;s Day Fallout, Chapter Two: Love Most Peculiar in My Dog Tulip</title><link>http://calitreview.com/14182</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/14182#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:30:51 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Animals]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[animation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[J. R. Ackerley]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies animated]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies animation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies independent]]></category> <category><![CDATA[My Dog Tulip]]></category> <category><![CDATA[New Yorker Films]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=14182</guid> <description><![CDATA[It is difficult to describe the feeling that <em>My Dog Tulip</em> leaves in one's heart once the lights come up. The best answer is that you will probably feel several, which may contradict one another. That, and not really the questionable content, is what makes it a love story for grown-ups.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/14182/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Movie Review: No Strings Attached</title><link>http://calitreview.com/13724</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/13724#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 18:08:28 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Julia Rhodes</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies & TV]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ashton Kutcher]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ivan Reitman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie comedy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie romance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Natalie Portman]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=13724</guid> <description><![CDATA[Studios are beginning to cater to the “hookup culture” people are wringing their hands about. The worst thing about <em>No Strings Attached</em> is its “teachable moment” ending: nobody’s capable of sex without feelings, didn’t you know?]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/13724/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Movie Review: Sex and the City 2</title><link>http://calitreview.com/9345</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/9345#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 15:21:02 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Julia Rhodes</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies & TV]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie chick flick]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie comedy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie romance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sarah Jessica Parker]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sex and the City]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=9345</guid> <description><![CDATA[Abu Dhabi, in case you were unaware, is the “new Middle East” and Dubai is “over.” With its blinding ivory dunes, gold-tipped mosques, and shimmering blue oceans, the possibilities for beauty here are endless. But we’re meant to remember that the loveliest things in the frame are the shoes, the clothes, and the four main characters, so DP John Thomas drops the ball on the scenery, opting instead for decorator porn and an “ooh shiny, diamonds and beautiful cars!” sensibility (because, you know, women <em>love</em> the shiny).]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/9345/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Book Review: Wild Romance: A Victorian Story of a Marriage, a Trial, and a Self-Made Woman by Chloë Schama</title><link>http://calitreview.com/8661</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/8661#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:08:59 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category> <category><![CDATA[nineteenth century]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Victorian era]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=8661</guid> <description><![CDATA[A secret affair. A scandalous sex-filled trial. A tell-all novel. If it’s any consolation to Tiger Woods and Jesse James, they’re not the first to be stripped down to their Jockeys on a worldwide scale. Welcome, William Charles Yelverton, Victorian seducer. ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/8661/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Happy Birthday, NC-17!</title><link>http://calitreview.com/8062</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/8062#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:37:08 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Julia Rhodes</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Gay and Lesbian]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[A Clockwork Orange]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Kevin Smith]]></category> <category><![CDATA[NC-17]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Showgirls]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Dreamers]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=8062</guid> <description><![CDATA[The basics of the MPAA&#8217;s rating system (from here). Oh, NC-17. You&#8217;re like that friend who&#8217;s always getting stupid at parties and killing everyone&#8217;s fun. And yet it&#8217;s impossible to ignore that person, and when it&#8217;s time to blow out the candles everyone shows up anyway. Cinematical notes that this year marks the 20th birthday [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/8062/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Book Review: I Don&#8217;t Care About Your Band by Julie Klausner</title><link>http://calitreview.com/7150</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/7150#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:26:42 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Julia Rhodes</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category> <category><![CDATA[comedy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[dating]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Julie Klausner]]></category> <category><![CDATA[relationships]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=7150</guid> <description><![CDATA[If the book were a movie, it would be rated R; the author’s got a dirty mouth (or pen, if you prefer) and hormones out the wazoo, and this book is not your mom’s dating guide. But for modern women it’s a refreshing and smart reassurance that they’re not alone in their woes.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/7150/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys: Professionals Writing on Life, Love, Money, and Sex</title><link>http://calitreview.com/5000</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/5000#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:24:43 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John R. Guthrie</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sociology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[prostitution]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=5000</guid> <description><![CDATA[And those <em>names</em>: JenniferBlowdryer, Sinnamon Love. Sebastian Horsely, a male prostitute, of course. Horsely advocates the trade as follows; “The difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex money always costs less.” ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/5000/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Casanova by Ian Kelly</title><link>http://calitreview.com/1774</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/1774#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:36:01 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Theatre]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Casanova]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ian Kelly]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=1774</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ah, Casanova. Men want to be him, and women want to be with him. Or is it the other way around? He’s Romeo with cojones, Bond without the Beretta, a man more sinned with than sinning. In the annals of sexual conquest, there has seldom been a more entertaining and knowing chronicler. Casanova, according to Casanova, was a legend.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/1774/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Love Junkie by Rachel Resnick</title><link>http://calitreview.com/1590</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/1590#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:06:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Kelly Hartog</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Love Junkie]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rachel Resnick]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=1590</guid> <description><![CDATA[It takes an enormous amount of courage for Resnick to put her life story on the page. Her writing is as stripped, raw and intense as her emotions, and at times you don’t want to read further. But you do, anyway, with a kind of abject horror. The two main men that parade through her life, who ultimately woo, use and abuse her are truly the type of guys your mother would warn you to stay far away from. ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/1590/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii</title><link>http://calitreview.com/313</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/313#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:35:47 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Judith Harris</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art history]]></category> <category><![CDATA[erotic art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Marquis de Sade]]></category> <category><![CDATA[pompeii]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/2008/02/14/erotic-art-of-ancient-pompeii/</guid> <description><![CDATA[A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up behind a nymph to catch her by surprise. In at least one case the nymph, her veil ripped away, turns out to be a hermaphrodite, to the satyr’s theatrical dismay, and the observer’s amusement. Some wall paintings showed homosexual sex and, because African motifs were popular, another depicted picnicking pygmies enjoying a group orgy under a tent.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/313/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>10</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan</title><link>http://calitreview.com/228</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/228#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:58:12 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Julie Ellam</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ian McEwan]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/2007/06/21/on-chesil-beach-by-ian-mcewan/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Repression, fear and even loathing run through her mind as she braces herself for what is to come after their meal. We are told in the first sentence that they are ‘young, educated and both virgins’ and she is unwilling to alter this state. Her only knowledge of sex is derived from a manual and she has convinced herself that she is without desire.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/228/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Campus Sexpot by David Carkeet</title><link>http://calitreview.com/107</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/107#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:32:15 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Kelly Hartog</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com//non-fiction-reviews/campus-sexpot-by-david-carkeet/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Naturally, the publishing of this book complete with its intrigue, loose morals, and the real citizens’ names thinly disguised, set the town on its ear.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/107/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Orchestras, Oboes and Orgies</title><link>http://calitreview.com/84</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/84#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:46:07 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Music]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Performing Arts]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category> <category><![CDATA[AIDs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Blair Tindall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[classical music]]></category> <category><![CDATA[drugs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[orchestras]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com//interviews/orchestras-oboes-and-orgies/</guid> <description><![CDATA["I was honest about my own behavior and that of others, yet stopped short of revealing 95 percent of the worst in our business. The nature of memoir is that of truth; only real people can illustrate real stories. However, a measure of effective journalism is its ability to instigate societal change, and only a picture based on truth can do that."]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/84/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>9</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Confessions of a Porn Writer</title><link>http://calitreview.com/60</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/60#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:33:22 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Kelly Hartog</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies & TV]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lynn Isenberg]]></category> <guid
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