What he was looking at did not at all resemble an erotic summer idyll, as he had supposed, but rather a marriage of body and soul. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

For Bloom it was a comfortable erotic moment and he felt close to his wife, sleepy and slightly woozy and very sexy all over. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the poorer districts between the stepped pyramids of Meereen’s slaver nobility, there were brothels catering to every conceivable erotic taste, she knew. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The walls of Jean de Satigny’s studio were covered with distressing erotic scenes that revealed her husband’s hidden character. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their short, erotic honeymoon took place that same night in a white cottage across the street from the tiny Jack Dempsey Museum in Manassa, Colorado. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above these again were the playrooms where, the weather having turned to rain, nine hundred older children were amusing themselves with bricks and clay modelling, hunt-the-zipper, and erotic play. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

One slaver wore a tokar of maroon silk fringed with gold, one a striped tokar of teal and orange, the third an ornate breastplate inlaid with erotic scenes done in jet and jade and mother-of-pearl. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was the single most erotic thing Toby had ever experienced. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Why is the sight of torture, a glimpse of some flayed bull-jock dying under the bleachers, erotic? Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

These pictures were supposed to be erotic, and I thought they were, at the time; but I see now what they were really about. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

A number of them soon found that attending to his erotic desires, despite his dwarfish stature and misshapen physique, went a long way toward enhancing their career prospects. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The rims are carved with designs of birds and animals, whereas the medallions in the spokes are carved with women in luxurious poses, largely erotic in nature.”’ Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Within the room was a great canopied bed, a tall wardrobe decorated with erotic carvings, and a narrow window of leaded glass in a pattern of red and yellow diamonds. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Plantagenet’s “artistic” work has all been forgotten, but his erotic studies of women and automobiles remain popular. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It’s often said that bonobos constantly have sex, but this wasn’t erotic; it seemed more of a way to express goodwill and reduce tension. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Thus, in her first three issues, the Oracular Vulva delivered disquisitions on the erotic art of the Japanese painter Hiroshi Yamamoto, the epidemiology of syphilis, and the sex life of St. Augustine. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was not an erotic love, but a love of shared madness, of conversations that were electric and boundless, of ambitions that ran beyond realities.* The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It’s erotic to me, that smell; it reminds me of being happy. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the next, “Live erotic show, gentlemen! Plus in our establishment you can watch the football game!” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The realization of being far gone, the fear, the unknowable possibilities, all of it—the horror, the wonder, the joy—fused into an erotic thrill. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Girls didn’t seem to mind that sort of thing, but to me he was about as erotic as an old football coach. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Stunned by the erotic Armageddon, Herbie teetered abjectly, miserably, totally befuddled. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a hard-hitting, sometimes grotesque, often violent and erotic spectacular. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know if he was experiencing God or having some sort of erotic flashback or going into seizure again or what, but whatever it was, I wanted to put an end to it, fast. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Although Amaranta Úrsula did not lose her good humor or her genius for erotic mischief, she acquired the habit of sitting on the porch after lunch in a kind of wakeful and thoughtful siesta. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

To hear his valet Prideful tell it, James confined his erotic energies to specialized rooms in a New Orleans establishment. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He put the palms of his hands against his ears and danced sideways for a while, and then backwards, and then did an erotic thing with his hips. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The corset was all they needed in terms of an aphrodisiac, and it remained for my grandfather the singular erotic emblem of his life. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They are the busiest erotic practitioners I know, and about a third of their clients are women. ArtsBeat: Reviewer Spotlight: Annie Sprinkle on Sex, Art and Activism 2011-07-01T19:55:41Z

“I just wanted something fresh and sweetly erotic for the summertime,” Mr. Lo said. On the Runway Blog: Glittery Tees for After the Fireworks 2013-07-03T18:36:17Z

But as that population has grown smaller and more socially insular, those people sometimes seem like symbols or avatars or objects of erotic fascination to the rest of us. "The Company Men": Kevin Costner as working-class Jesus 2011-01-18T23:30:00Z

For the next 10 years, our relationship climbed to a whole new level: more erotic, more loving, much closer than before and beyond what I’d thought was possible. Modern Love: Modern Love — Learning to Love Again After the Affair 2012-11-23T18:00:20Z

Mr. Giger’s surrealistic monster — part dragon, part machine, part erotic fantasy — helped “Alien” win an Academy Award for best visual effects. H.R. Giger, artist who designed the creature in the 1979 film ‘Alien,’ dies at 74

It drew especially wide controversy for an erotic scene between Ms. York and the actress Coral Browne. Susannah York, British Actress, Dies at 72 2011-01-17T04:58:05Z

It’s a cinematic fantasy that could be written off as a guilty pleasure, though the best erotic thrillers can be appreciated without taking an ironic distance. Where have all the erotic thrillers gone? 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

More formal poses, meanwhile, often seem to quote erotic images by Man Ray, Irving Penn and Alfred Stieglitz. Last Chance: Ryan McGinley at Team, and Catherine Opie at Gladstone 2010-04-13T21:27:00Z

Oshima won the best director award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1978 for his film "Empire of Passion," another erotic tale. Japanese filmmaker Nagisa Oshima dies aged 80 2013-01-15T20:08:42Z

Yet even though Mozart displays technical brilliance, the music that drives these lust-ridden plots is, on an erotic level, almost unreasonably tame. Indecent exposure 2011-04-07T21:00:03Z

The awkward adaptation of author EL James’s erotic novel nabbed five prizes at the Golden Raspberry awards, including a share of the year’s worst film award with the superhero flop Fantastic Four. Fifty Shades of Grey ties up five Razzies 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z

It told the story of two men whose business relationship is destroyed by the erotic attraction of one to the other. Barry Unsworth, Historical Novelist, Dies at 81 2012-06-08T02:47:19Z

At the other extreme is a character called Landlorde — the “e,” he says, is a “baroque flourish” — who sets about his project of gentrification with the erotic eagerness of Dracula. Review: Hipsters Double-Check Their Privilege in ‘Cute Activist’ 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z

The French, including Baudelaire, who was one of the first to understand him, found in his operas not the rude and the violent but rather the erotic, the dreamlike, the otherworldly and the deeply psychological. From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the rock beat builds with a slow and erotic throb that reaches a mighty crescendo amid loud chanting, splashing potions, ever-wilder dancing, and gyrating camera moves. A Lost Masterwork Is Found: Thomas White's “Who's Crazy?” 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z

There is from the start another, more elaborate story lurking beneath this clever psychological comedy of teaching and erotic obsession. In the House – review 2013-03-31T00:07:00Z

I think what I was interested in at the time of writing these poems was in finding a language and imagery for the erotic and the hidden or secret. Carol Ann Duffy on her collection Love Poems – Guardian book club 2013-02-08T17:35:01Z

In its citation, the judging panel said Finney "finds poetic joy and a political imagination in family wisdom, workaday living and erotic syllables that sing the body of women." 'Salvage the Bones' a National Book Award winner 2011-11-17T18:03:21Z

While Hong Kong has a film ratings system, mainland China doesn't, which effectively rules out erotic content. 3-D erotic comedy shakes up Hong Kong box office 2011-04-20T09:46:04Z

This echoes what Joyce comes to embrace about the demographic her magazine serves: women who believe they have as much of a right to erotic satisfaction as men. Are "Julia" and "Minx" the same show? Basically, yes. That's wonderful 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z

"The Blue Room" opens, like the book, in the heat of erotic enchantment, captured with bracing directness and beauty. 'The Blue Room' a tantalizing mystery of lovers on trial 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

In other words, the extreme selectivity of Courbet's viewpoint, the ruthless "cropping", removes this erotic image from any context that might soften or explain it, any echo of art history. Gustave Courbet's The Origin of the World still over-excites art critics 2013-02-08T13:57:43Z

With our erotic selves, we seek out action, novelty, and sensation; nudged by our death instincts, we retreat back into ourselves, and into our pasts. "The Good Wife" and the Good Life 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

The religious doesn’t exclude the erotic — the sacred and the profane cohabit. Review | Getty exhibition shows how the naked body became a subject for art 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

In a sex-and-confession scene with Doc, which lasts six-and-a-half minutes and is shot without a cut, Waterston lends the movie as much human feeling and erotic tension as it’s ever going to accumulate. Review: Inherent Vice: Pynchon and P.T. Anderson Share a Joint 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

Sounds intense, and Stone's film is indeed a lurid, pulpy film noir but with an erotic, even dreamlike California beach vibe. Review: Stone back in bold form with `Savages' 2012-07-03T01:46:04Z

She found another ideal subject in the Italian painter Francesco Clemente, a magnetic heterosexual who nonetheless could deal with the intimate complexities of the body as well as the erotic imagery of India. Ingrid Sischy’s Genius: Portraits of Contemporary Culture 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

The lyrics don’t need to be straightforwardly interpreted for them to communicate a compelling sense of erotic menace. ‪The Beautiful Meaninglessness of David Bowie 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z

He heads off to college, and she, home alone and suddenly free, embarks on an erotic reawakening, signing up for a “Gender and Society” class, diving into niche pornography and engaging in drunken hookups. Read It Before You See It 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

Here, the absence of evidence and witnesses is less an erotic thrill than a point of despair. ‘Preparations to Be Together’ Review: Mysteries of Love 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

There is a touch of the erotic throughout his exegesis, but there is also a feeling of linguistic and cultural diligence, of the author’s effort to learn this new place. Coming of Age as Performance Art: An Outsider in 1970s Japan 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

“It gave me a sense of the sensuality of the film, the erotic nature of certain aspects of the character, his masculinity tinged with the otherworldly look of a satyr,” he said. Benedict Cumberbatch and the Monsters Among Us 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

I wouldn’t write off anyone else finding it erotic – and there have been some complaints about the volume of sex scenes – but I think I’d defy anyone not to be moved by it. Sex has as much meaning as words: how Normal People handles intimacy 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z

“Porgy,” he wrote, was like an allergen to Russian officials — its characters erotic, God-fearing and superstitious. Review: ‘Porgy and Bess’ Returns to a New Opera Landscape 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

Denk also traces his erotic awakening as a gay man with acuity and humor. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

Ms. Groff’s prose can be gorgeous, especially with the erotic heat she brings to it here. Review: Lauren Groff’s ‘Fates and Furies’ Features a Wife Who’s Full of Surprises 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z

I am not usually drawn to detective or murder mysteries, and am ambivalent about books that hinge on erotics and violence against women. The Book That Terrified Neil Gaiman. And Carmen Maria Machado. And Dan Simmons. 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

And there’s also almost enough sex in the movie to qualify to as an “erotic thriller,” if that’s what you’re in the market for. ‘How It Ends’ and ‘No Blade of Grass’: Grim Visions of Tomorrow 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

Before Steele signs, the pair romp mostly around Seattle - where the novel is set - performing a stunning array of erotic activities. 'Fifty Shades' too steamy for some library shelves 2012-05-09T19:41:42Z

Which brings us back to the more fundamental struggle: how to reconnect with your erotic self. I’m 70, and I Want to Still Want Sex 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z

This was how desperate we were to feel like adults, and to experience a now-rare form of grown-up entertainment: an erotic thriller directed by the master of the genre, Adrian Lyne. When the Master of the Erotic Thriller Fails to Thrill 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z

An erotic book he hasn't ordered arrives from Amazon. Thrillers: review roundup 2011-07-15T21:55:02Z

For years, my habit has been to go to free sites like Literotica and scan them for stories that might appeal to my various and sundry erotic interests. This isn’t “mommy porn” 2013-03-16T22:00:00Z

They reveled in synthetic color, unusual textures and carefully calibrated erotic innuendo. Ken Price, Sculptor Who Helped Elevate Ceramics, Dies at 77 2012-02-25T02:28:11Z

"With this revolution in mind, it was logical that women needed their own erotic TV channel." Porn made for women, by women 2011-03-22T09:00:00Z

When the television director Jamie Morton found out that his father had penned a series of erotic fiction novels under the alias Rocky Flintstone, he didn’t keep that information to himself and his therapist. 5 Comedy Shows to Catch in NYC This Weekend 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

I understand that your UTIs have affected your sex drive, but it’s also pretty clear that you’re not ready to let your erotic life die. I’m 70, and I Want to Still Want Sex 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z

And he was unlike Cézanne, who had his erotic side but suppressed it. Henry Moore talks about Rodin's irresistible influence – from the archive 2013-03-23T07:59:02Z

If there’s nothing to take off, no erotic “transit” to spark the imagination, well, the whole thing goes limp. My week at the naked mountain hut 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z

His defence argued that “erotic sexual asphyxiation” was something that Miazek had expressed interest in with previous sexual partners. The fatal, hateful rise of choking during sex 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z

The essential elements in Dafna Steinberg’s two concurrent shows are pictures, text and erotic autobiography. Review | In the galleries: Art that thrives in natural light 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

He bumps into her while looking for an erotic massage. ‘Preparation for the Next Life’ by Atticus Lish 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z

Hilary, who agreed to be quoted if identified by her first name only, saw nothing erotic about the new setting for an old art form. Forget karaoke: People are getting naked for art in sketchy British pubs 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

He found this a lot less erotic than he expected. Naked or nude? Laying bare an artistic divide 2012-11-28T16:53:35Z

Half a dozen of the main works are deliberately in dialogue with literary classics and ephemera, from sources as diverse as Mark Twain’s satirical monologues, James Joyce’s erotic letters, the Epic of Gilgamesh and “Antigone.” At Under the Radar, Theater That Jumps Right Off the Page 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z

In many of them, humor and erotic, usually homoerotic, fantasy have an important role. A Cree Artist Redraws History 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

Deemed soft in the head, the hapless Huw is mercilessly bullied by his father and subjected to hellfire sermons by the local preacher when his erotic experiments in verse are accidentally discovered. The Devil Inside Him 2010-05-12T20:30:00Z

Ozon himself said he had fun pushing the boundaries of the erotic thriller genre that he has visited before in films such as the 2003 movie "Swimming Pool" that also competed at Cannes. French director Ozon plays with psycho-sexual thriller genre at Cannes 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

They’re not remotely erotic or even particularly sensual, and they have nothing to do with the Greek mythological subject matter for which Canova remains best known. Art Review: ‘Antonio Canova: The Seven Last Works’ Debuts at the Met 2014-01-23T22:50:58Z

Quail in rose petal sauce produces erotic desire; a cake stirred with tears brings back memories of lost loves to the point of vomiting and death. Review: In ‘Like Water for Chocolate,’ Plot Overtakes Ballet 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

These erotic aspects of the drama are unapologetically displayed in Beyoncé’s fierce performance. “Grief sedated by orgasm, orgasm heightened by grief”: Beyoncé, “Lemonade” and the new reality of infidelity 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

“A Dangerous Method” is full of ideas about sexuality — some quite provocative, even a century after their first articulation — but it also recognizes and communicates the erotic power of ideas. | 'A Dangerous Method': ?A Dangerous Method,? by David Cronenberg - Review 2011-11-22T18:02:01Z

The erotic and romantic ache of Carol is generated from across-the-room looks and sudden touches. Ammonite is not the evolutionary leap for lesbian film it thinks it is 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z

This clinical approach denudes the pain of its romantic essence and its erotic energy—the very qualities that must be reignited if a relationship is to not only survive but thrive. “Grief sedated by orgasm, orgasm heightened by grief”: Beyoncé, “Lemonade” and the new reality of infidelity 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

Athanaël, who tells Thaïs his love is of the spirit, not the flesh, is tormented by erotic visions and decides he can’t live without her. Music Review: George Manahan Conducts ‘Thaïs’ at Manhattan School of Music 2012-12-10T22:50:19Z

Sporulate: It’s a revolting word, but it is also erotic. The Mushrooms Will Survive Us 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z

In one he speculates on the erotic implications associated with the title of Balzac’s novel “A Woman of Thirty.” ‘Truth thrives in the margins’ and other insights from a master essayist 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

By turns elegiac and erotic, the collection is also lush with language whose music evokes the landscape. Confronting Grief, Mental Illness and Marginalization, in Verse 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

That Mr. Ellis’s novel doesn’t read tame 20 years later has much to do with its relentless and disgusted forensic and erotic detail, combined with its unending catalog of brand names. Critic’s Notebook: London’s Dark Musicals ‘American Psycho’ and ‘Stephen Ward’ 2014-01-20T18:23:32Z

And so the audience watching “Magic Mike XXL,” an outrageously entertaining sequel directed by Gregory Jacobs, is treated to a private, intimate performance, as Mike’s carpentry is turned into an athletic, erotic spectacle. Review: ‘Magic Mike XXL,’ Fleshing Out a Sequel With Heart as Well as Pecs and Abs 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

And these friendships have been, in many ways, more mysterious than erotic love: more subtle, less selfish, more attuned to kindness. When Your Greatest Romance Is a Friendship 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

His erotic playroom, by contrast, is both orderly and overstuffed, a hidden Old World of decadent refinement, as if resonating with the menace and the thrill of absolute power and absolute corruption. The Accurate Erotics of “Fifty Shades of Grey” 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

There’s no question that the male eye has been trained for centuries, probably millennia, to view the nude female form as both an art object and an erotic trigger. Blue Is the Warmest Color: How Much Sex Is Too Much Sex? 2013-10-24T19:38:46Z

Such a term would entirely miss the kind of erotic masochism on which Mr. Backhaus’s book depends. Books of The Times: ‘Hikikomori and the Rental Sister,’ by Jeff Backhaus 2013-01-29T22:33:33Z

What struck me was how much the innocent Barrie owed to the decadent Wilde: as in The Importance of Being Earnest, a dual identity creates endless erotic complications. Quality Street ? review 2010-12-06T22:15:00Z

But the ideas are here, tucked into a different kind of erotic story, one that alternately jolts and delights as Sookee and Hideko laugh their way to a new ending. Review: ‘The Handmaiden’ Explores Confinement in Rich, Erotic Textures 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

In Beatrice, they produced an “erotic delight,” and for the first time she experienced “the sensuality of excess.” An Intimate History of the British Empire 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

With an urgent need to replace lost income, many have switched to online services, offering their clients video calls, erotic photographs, and videos instead. Streetwalkers to sweet talkers: Chile's sex workers shift online amid virus lockdown 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z

He founds his own troupe and develops a movement language, an unmistakable style: breakneck, baroque and erotic. Stephen Petronio Company Marks Its 30th Anniversary 2014-04-04T19:50:59Z

But “House of Pleasures” is not an erotic stimulant so much as a slow-moving, increasingly tragic and claustrophobic operatic pageant set almost entirely in the brothel. | 'House of Pleasures': ?House of Pleasures,? Directed by Bertrand Bonello - Review 2011-11-24T20:57:57Z

She also writes erotic fan fiction, she says, often based on House, the American medical TV drama. Learn to write erotica – centaur sex anyone? 2012-12-09T20:00:06Z

My erotic fantasies during that time were all mixed up with dreams of tyrannical power, as if the sissy, after having enough sand kicked in his face, became the strong man. The Bonds Between Sex and Books 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

It may be too easy for some, and he encourages clients to explore their erotic imagination, but “for the vast majority of men of all ages it’s not an issue,” he says. Does porn hurt relationships? 2013-01-22T02:00:00Z

Photograph: The National Gallery The strange erotic intensity of this history painting by Degas is a clue to the passions that pulse within his later impressionist and post-impressionist works. The impressionists, Degas and Shepard Fairey – the week in art 2012-06-29T10:18:23Z

The score is extraordinarily beautiful, whether depicting religious austerities or the erotic dangers of a great city. Tha?s ? review 2011-08-19T11:38:44Z

For the past few episodes it's been plain that the erotic sizzle of the first seasons has long been spent. ‘The Affair’ Season 3, Episode 8: People See What They Want to See 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z

Laura finds their erotic love letters hidden away in books at the library and becomes enamored, her passion soon infecting Ezequiel. ‘Trenque Lauquen’ Review: Lose Yourself 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

I’m not sure if his scenario qualifies as erotic, per se—though if getting a soapy caress from a volatile middle-aged millionaire floats your boat, this is pretty much the pinnacle. I took Fox News’ sexual harassment class 2013-06-04T11:45:00Z

The problem is that after the first of this largely sung-through show’s many erotic encounters, the thrill, such as it is, is gone, and the “again” of the musical’s title becomes its most obvious element. | 'Hello Again': Web of Love, Explicitly Woven in Shades of Anguish 2011-03-21T02:01:03Z

It’s conspiratorial, romantic, sometimes erotic — he’s never singing at you so much as he’s singing about you, in your ear. Drake Rebuilt Hip-Hop in His Image. Now He Wants You to Dance. 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z

Where all their disparate musical impulses align with Kelela, on “Take Me Apart,” is in their appreciation for Janet Jackson in her “Velvet Rope” era, purring erotic thoughts over state-of-the-art slow-dance grooves. Kelela’s ‘Take Me Apart’ Is R&B That’s Intimate Inside and Out 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z

Hachi's appearance, and his news, triggers an explosive mixture of erotic tension and suspicion in the two women. Commission us: Sex, death and long grass in Kaneto Shindo's Onibaba 2010-10-15T09:19:00Z

"The verve and energy of the company," he notes between tokes on the Telegraph's staff bong, "is irresistible; the vitality of Karole Armitage's turbo-charged and often highly erotic choreography genuinely thrilling." What to say about ... Hair 2010-04-15T16:10:00Z

The prolific film scholar and critic Thomson blends memoir and history to explore the multifaceted connections between film, masculinity, femininity and modern erotic life. New in Paperback: ‘Spies of No Country’ and ‘Daisy Jones & the Six’ 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z

But for Rodin I think this erotic excitement was a part of his rapport with the human figure. Henry Moore talks about Rodin's irresistible influence – from the archive 2013-03-23T07:59:02Z

With "Avatar" recently becoming the biggest film of all time, the 76-year-old Italian filmmaker said the time is right for 3D technologies to be used to create an erotic film. 2010-01-29T07:15:00Z

That the secondary psychiatric definition of “fugue” also figures in disturbing eruptions of erotic violence should come as no surprise — it’s an Echo play. A different kind of fugue state by Echo Theater Company 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

She wants a man who measures up to her in force of personality, in independent thinking and, not far below the surface, in erotic possibility. “Far From the Madding Crowd”: A powerful classic recaptured, in all its erotic glory 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

But that world, for all its homophobia, could also be quite homosocial, even erotic. How Dan Savage lost it 2013-05-25T19:00:00Z

Thereafter they dwell in secret erotic bliss, at least until he beats her to death with his gloved fists in a scene that brings an unpleasantly graphic connotation to the idea of pulp fiction. | 'The Killer Inside Me': Casey Affleck in Michael Winterbottom?s Adaptation 2010-06-17T22:56:00Z

Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy and Cairo Modern examine the ideological and erotic entanglements of Cairenes in the last years of British imperial rule. ArtsBeat: A Reading List for the Egypt Crisis 2011-02-03T21:45:45Z

Enchanted Forest Anna Prohaska Deutsche Grammophon The enchanted forests of the Renaissance imagination – places of mystery and erotic confusion – haunted Baroque theatre composers, who often looked to earlier literary sources for inspiration. Anna Prohaksa: Enchanted Forest – review 2013-04-11T20:30:01Z

Jonanthan Jones, an art writer for the Guardian, argues that the erotic imagery on such tokens was familiar to artists in Renaissance Italy, where they likely influenced the birth of modern pornography. ArtsBeat Blog: Ancient Pornographic Artifact Discovered by the Thames 2012-01-05T18:30:48Z

And in an era when gay sexual expression was brutally suppressed, the men were able to express themselves through the most influential sex symbols of the day, creating a kind of erotic ventriloquism. The Gay Architects of Classic Rock 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z

There was the tortured romantic; the exotic and mysterious English/European hybrid image with doomily erotic allure; and there was the abyss of darkness and wartime pain that was to be forever associated with him. Ralph Fiennes's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

Within the parameters of prison rules, the group fulfills requests of an erotic bent. Photo Requests from Solitary Confinement 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

In short vignettes, Lillian looks back, drawing an impressionistic portrait of a bold life full of ad­ven­ture — erotic and otherwise — in prose spiked with unflinching observations, riotous riffs and poignant reflections. Review: Alison Jean Lester’s novel ‘Lillian on Life’ stars an older woman with moxie 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

The film “is full of ideas about sexuality — some quite provocative, even a century after their first articulation — but it also recognizes and communicates the erotic power of ideas,” Mr. Scott wrote in November. DVD: John Ford?s ?Fort Apache? on Blu-ray From Warner Home Video 2012-03-25T01:23:02Z

Peggy’s quiet triumph of self-determination is a lovely note for the show to end on, one underlined by The Kinks’ classic ode to a woman’s erotic power, “You Really Got Me,” playing over the credits. “Mad Men’s” indecent proposal 2012-05-28T12:31:00Z

Thanks to inventors of erotic toys and people in power, the city and Herbert each get upgrades. "Made For Love" and the twist ending that asks what we'll compromise for technology 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

Coppola pushes the scene so long that it loses whatever erotic and/or comic content it once possessed, and becomes awkward and pathetic. "Somewhere": Sofia Coppola's smart, stylish celebrity takedown 2010-12-21T02:02:00Z

What will you do the next time you search your boyfriend’s phone and find more erotic exchanges with men? My Boyfriend Messaged Someone on a Gay Site. Does That Mean He’s Gay? 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

Fiction titles, like the Fifty Shades erotic novels, counted for 18%. Britain ranks as top book producer 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

As Bart and Laurie switch from sharpshooting to armed robbery, her erotic excitement is complemented by his sense of unreality. In ‘Pretty Poison’ and ‘Gun Crazy,’ Femmes Fatales With Deadly Firepower 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

Transgressive erotic impulses run every which way here, and no one agonizes about pursuing them — well, not for more than a minute. | 'Burning' : Thomas Bradshaw?s ?Burning? at Acorn Theater - Review 2011-11-15T03:18:36Z

Because you are safe to go into your own private head-place, and the chances are that there is a real dissonance between the erotic you and the you in the real world. How to have sex with the same person for the rest of your life 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z

It was a verse that started off like a Degas painting, naked and intimate and warmly erotic, but swiftly dissembled into something sad and messy and ruined. Amy Winehouse sang of a deeply feminine suffering 2011-07-26T11:38:04Z

In erotic romance it isn’t just gratuitous sex put in there so people can ready dirty books or kids can check ‘em out and highlight them and say, “Ooh, look at this!” Before “Fifty Shades of Grey” 2012-07-14T23:00:00Z

He talks about traumatic dreams, erotic dreams, dreams about people we have lost and the universal dream of anxiety, when you’re suddenly confronted with a test for which you haven’t studied. The History of Dreams, From Greek Mythology to Last Night’s Sleep 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

Once the conservative spell had passed, the erotic literature industry again flourished. China’s schizophrenic sexual revolution 2012-12-23T14:00:00Z

But is there anything so wrong with just being erotic? The Handmaiden: the return of erotic cinema 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

When writing “Voices of the Desert,” an erotic retelling of “One Thousand and One Nights,” she read the Quran twice, according to Ms. Vincent. Nélida Piñon, Provocative Brazilian Novelist, Is Dead at 85 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z

From those two endpoints, Dafoe began to fill in his career with whatever he found fascinating, be it erotic thrillers with Madonna and action films against Ice Cube, or Wes Anderson wundercabinets and Marvel flicks. Willem Dafoe: 'With success comes certain things that corrupt you' 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

No, what’s most erotic about the painting is, I think, the woman’s right hand, the fingers of which are shown raking sensuously through a clutch of rumpled bed linen. After almost 500 years, Titian’s ‘Danaë’ still makes you blush

The erotic force we like to call love is not rational. London Theater Journal: A 'Carousel' That Really Moves 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z

In some respects, Menkes’s assessment isn’t inaccurate — indeed, some films very much want to make women look powerless and erotic, but that’s not a problem in and of itself. ‘Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power’ Review: Demystifying the Male Gaze 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

Perhaps this is one of the reasons for the novel's popularity: it offers an alternative to standard dehumanising visual erotic fare. Fifty Shades of Grey is no one-handed erotic read for me but … 2012-05-29T11:17:33Z

“The Women of Franklin Street” represents a statuesque, brightly smiling “young lady” in erotic dishabille being caressed from front and back by two other women in a Rococo boudoir. Art in Review: JOHN CURRIN: ?New Paintings? 2010-11-19T07:00:00Z

The gladiatorial scenes in the bullring are superbly good, and Berger takes inspiration from Hitchcock, with hints of Rebecca and Psycho, Buñuel, Browning and Almodóvar, and conjures a fascinatingly ambiguous ending: melancholy, eerie and erotic. Blancanieves – review 2013-07-11T20:31:00Z

Physical stagings, erotic tensions Over the years, Dunlop's dream has been sustained by successive directors who have imported their own particular style. Young Vic at 40: the Young and the restless: 2010-10-19T20:31:00Z

Austen erotic mash-ups have had a go of it in two separate series, Clandestine Classics and the Wild & Wanton editions. Fifty shades of Mr. Darcy: A brief history of X-rated Jane Austen adaptations 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z

The law also seems to operate like this, with its intricate scale of sexual transgressions, escalating in perceived severity, above and beyond the mere fact of exploiting a child for your own erotic gratification. ‘I couldn’t deal with it, it tore me apart’: surviving child sexual abuse 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

For audiences who like their sex on the silly side, a longstanding and popular preference in British theater, there are jauntier accounts of erotic mayhem. On the London Stage, Love Doesn’t Just Hurt, It Kills 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z

It’s also crossroads for commerce, close enough to legitimate theater and culture to draw an audience for coin-operated peep shows, erotic films and live sex performances masquerading as “art.” The dirt on "The Deuce," David Simon's next great HBO drama 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z

“Memoirs have become a fairly elasticized form for truths and untruths,” says Daphne Merkin, who has written openly in the New Yorker about family money, depression and even erotic spanking. Lena Dunham and the challenges of memoir 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

This habit can be broken if you take the time to train yourself to be truly in the erotic moment. I have to fantasise about porn to climax with my boyfriend 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

But “Fornicon,” a volume of erotic drawings, got him blacklisted from children’s book publishing. Movie Review: ‘Far Out Isn’t Far Enough,’ About Tomi Ungerer 2013-06-14T01:10:55Z

All agreed there’s been a tectonic shift in the romance market toward erotic romance since “Fifty Shades of Grey” sold over 70 million copies in 2012. “People are at their most vulnerable when they’re naked together”: The rise of erotic romance 2014-01-04T00:00:00Z

Reading the editorial notes is almost as enthralling as reading the old man’s besottedly erotic poems for his young second wife, Valerie. Clive James: ‘As my immune system underwent one of its regular replacements, I thought of Keats’ 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z

That you thought the American response to erotic capital had been perverted by puritanism. Catherine Hakim: charm school marm 2011-08-19T22:01:41Z

“Although technically a nude, the composition is tender and modest rather than erotic,” reads the wall label. Lucian Freud, Stripped of Fame and Scandal 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z

But the parts are pretty great — sleek, stylish and erotic, if in an airbrushed, antiseptic way. Review | In the galleries: A satire on images of women and the objects they advertise 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

Tsukuru begins to have erotic dreams about his old friends and this new one. Haruki Murakami’s ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage’ 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

A Little Gay History draws on objects ranging from ancient Egyptian papyri and the erotic scenes on the Roman Warren Cup to images by David Hockney. British Museum launches gay guide 2013-06-21T11:51:23Z

Revealingly, the section of the show with the largest concentration of paintings and sculptures is focused on erotic art. 'Radical Women' at the Hammer Museum is a startling show you need to see, maybe twice 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z

We move on to China: she seems to view their appraisal of erotic capital quite positively. Catherine Hakim: charm school marm 2011-08-19T22:01:41Z

As with Cameron Post, well-judged depictions of lesbian sex have the potential to be even more erotic, which seems like the way to go. 'Oral sex – and no scissoring!' How the lesbian gaze changed cinema 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

In the Romantic era, poets such as Blake, Keats and Shelley did promulgate a new ideal: the transformative power of erotic love. ‘Self and Soul’: Mark Edmundson’s biting critique of modern complacency 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

And if you think I am suggesting something vaguely erotic, well, I am. Known and Unknown: A Memoir by Donald Rumsfeld ? review 2011-02-13T00:05:24Z

Yet another poet of the same period, Gowhar Beigum Azerbaijani, neatly summarizes her impressive erotic power: “One glance of mine will make two hundred men/ Whom death has taken, come to life again.” Review | At last, we hear the beautiful — and sometimes bawdy — Persian poems by women 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

The most erotic scene is when the old general takes the hand of the young woman and kisses the inside of her wrist. Baryshnikov in the Tragic Love Story ?In Paris? 2011-09-14T13:58:08Z

The best term she has found is “erotic friendship”, and, she says, erotic friendships have value. Do long-term, no-strings sex arrangements ever work? 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

The film is an interactive Hand That Rocks the Cradle-style thriller with the thinnest possible erotic undertone. One for the money: the great actors who slummed it in daft movies 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

At times there seemed to be an erotic undercurrent. Dance Review: Makiko Tamura/Small Apple Co. in ‘Tank’ at the Joyce SoHo 2012-07-15T21:16:21Z

Like The Piano, it was erotic, but this was more explicit – and from a female perspective, of course. Jane Campion: ‘The clever people used to do film. Now they do TV’ 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z

Alice also appears, older and silver-haired, under the name Lady Fairchild, in Moore and Gebbie's controversial narrative about three heroines from children's literature, each grown up and recalling her own erotic awakening. Will Brooker's top 10 comic book-classic mashups 2012-07-11T13:42:02Z

But, as the narrator collects erotic experiences, his imagery evolves. Saeed Jones’s Striking Memoir About Race, Sex, and Self-Invention 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

In Ms. Parks’s telling, Venus comes to be perceived as both the shadowy nadir and blazing ideal of men’s erotic longings. Review: ‘Venus’ Recalls a Woman’s Fortune, and Her Ruin 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

Then, if you stick with "Special Treatment" a bit longer, you realize it isn't a lightweight erotic romp at all, but a complicated and delicate two-person odyssey that's much richer and subtler than that. A tasty fable about a hooker and a shrink 2011-08-26T20:27:00Z

Part of the scene’s power comes from the fact that it is played twice, with the result that Sue’s climactic words in the novel – “You pearl, you pearl, you pearl” – become doubly erotic. Sarah Waters: ‘The Handmaiden turns pornography into a spectacle – but it's true to my novel' 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z

Not satisfied with examining the formal dimensions of Horace Gifford’s architecture, Mr. Rawlins made it a point to incorporate its countless erotic ones. Looking Back on Fire Island Pines and Its Importance to Gay Culture 2013-05-22T23:28:30Z

Rowling's "Casual Vacancy" and E L James's "Fifty Shades of Grey," were disqualified: Ms. Rowling's book because it was deemed insufficiently bad, and Ms. James's because the rules exclude books intended as erotic or pornographic. ArtsBeat: Canadian Wins Uncoveted Bad Sex in Fiction Award 2012-12-05T19:24:56Z

The two voices in the duet grind against one another, throat to throat and tongue to tongue, letting the listener in on the erotic pleasure of vocal intimacy. She Quickened the Pulse of 17th-Century Music 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

In a certain sense, then, Hesse resisted the attempt to characterize her artistic intentions as either erotic or even feminine. Two Artists’ Divergent Roads to Eros 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

James, debuted on the list in fourth place after the erotic trilogy sold 70 million copies around the world in the past two years. ''Captain Underpants'' beats ''Fifty Shades'' in library complaints 2013-04-15T20:47:33Z

But the electric, erotic, sardonic architecture remained intact; the souffle didn’t collapse. Review: A ‘Killing Eve’ That No One Was Asking For 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z

As Sontag saw it: "In place of hermeneutics we need an erotics of art." John Sutherland's top 10 books about books 2010-12-30T10:36:30Z

It is, quite simply, not in the interests of all those priapic patriarchs to allow women to actualise their erotic capital, for to do so would seismically alter the balance of power between the sexes. Honey Money: The Power of Erotic Capital by Catherine Hakim ? review 2011-08-19T09:00:02Z

That marks the erotic peak of this novel. Review | Anne Tyler’s ‘Redhead by the Side of the Road’ is light on drama. Not that we could handle more drama now anyway. 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z

Musical gestures are sparse and quiet, and the pervasive mood is at once erotic and threatening. The Killing Flower – review 2013-07-17T18:17:12Z

Barnes beautifully depicts how this discrepancy is eclipsed by the erotic tension of young love. Facts not what they appear in Barnes' novella 2011-10-26T21:52:03Z

As a maker of dark, erotic and experimental films, Mr. Figgis was an intriguing choice to stage this gripping Donizetti work. Music Review: O, Unsmiling Villainess! 2011-02-20T22:50:12Z

Generally, if one wishes to encourage a certain sexual behaviour in a reticent partner, it is best to first increase the erotic charge between you by pleasing each other in well-established ways. My wife is scared of giving me oral sex 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

With a blend of erotic and decorative exuberance, and a virtuosic display of stylistic imagination, she reveals the liberation in artifice and the alluring masks of natural desire. What to Stream: Five Directors’ Outstanding First Features 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z

There's something erotic about the exaltation she feels at being a muse to the creative figures in her life. Capriccio – review 2013-07-22T17:49:21Z

This is James Morton and his friends reading an erotic thriller called Belinda Blinked by Rocky Flintstone – the pen name of Morton’s father. The 50 best podcasts of 2016 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

Honestly, when I picked up Farrah Abraham’s latest erotic novel, “The Secret’s Out: 2,” I was looking to get some kicks from how bad the sex scenes were. Farrah Abraham’s new erotic novel misunderstands what “erotic novel” means 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

At various times the five men in the cast may seem brotherly, erotic and tender, while at other times they may be militant and combative. The Week Ahead: Jan. 2 ? 8 2010-12-31T15:49:43Z

Even popular books and movies link erotic spanking to severe psychological trauma. Modern Love: Modern Love: A Spanking Fetish Is Not Revealed Easily 2012-11-09T17:47:12Z

He didn’t strip, but his outfit of bow tie and tan leather harness, along with his flirtatious grin, hinted at erotic fun and games. Review: ‘Morphium Kabarett’ Explores a Gay Man’s Erotic Life 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z

According to this formula, an erotic romance must have a happy-ever-after, or at the very least a happy-for-now, and offer a perfect blend of explicit sex with emotional depth. Why we're putting the 'missing' sex scenes back into Charlotte Brontë 2012-07-17T14:30:04Z

“In some sense it is part of a very longstanding tradition of a kind of moral panic about women being visited by someone where they might have an erotic experience,” Ms. Frolova-Walker said. It Was Russia’s Most Popular Opera. Then It Disappeared. 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

He specifically chose a urinal because as an object it has plenty to say, much of it erotic, an aspect of life that Duchamp frequently explored in his work. Putting modern art on the map 2012-08-24T20:35:17Z

Books and movies provide generalised erotic ideas but cannot easily be put into practice, so most partners will require very specific instructions. I love my husband – but his sexual limitations are blighting our marriage 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

Don’t be misled: “The Book of Greek & Roman Folktales, Legends & Myths” isn’t an updated “Bulfinch’s Mythology,” retelling familiar stories about the squabbles and erotic mischief of the pagan gods. Forget ‘Oh, the Places You’ll Go!’ A more creative book-gift for a new graduate. 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

Be frank, and express your willingness to try to return to a more comfortable, anxiety-free erotic connection. I have herpes and my partner and I have lost our libido 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z

The record, which went platinum, made Ms. Lang a superstar, and its closing song, the erotic pop lamentation “Constant Craving,” earned her a third Grammy. K.D. Lang Doesn’t Have to Indulge Your Constant Cravings 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

And with its sexually explicit choreography and erotic polymorphism, the “Cabaret” of 1998 was confrontationally provocative. Theater Review: ‘Cabaret’ Opens, With Alan Cumming and Michelle Williams 2014-04-25T02:00:02Z

The heady bacchanal is choreographed with erotic flair by Georgina Lamb, with the guests cavorting in gold death’s-head masks as the drums beat insistently. Theater Review: Love?s Flames Amid a City in Flames 2011-07-12T21:27:37Z

She engages in an erotic dance with the Angel Gabriel, played by a "flex dancer" named Banks whose jittery movements, as if caught under strobe light, are a highlight. Adams, Sellars bring 'Passion' into present in opera's first full staging 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z

You can also sense this production’s distaste for the coercive erotic encounters brought about by fairy chemistry. On the London Stage, Love Doesn’t Just Hurt, It Kills 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z

Certainly these elements — erotic, comic, oddball, even genuinely unsettling — are more than seductive. A Novel of Two Marriages, One Haunted by the Other 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

"I actually get the impression from it that most of the press is surprised that women read erotic fiction when it's been around for a very long time," she said. Day: 'Twilight' fans migrating to erotic romance 2012-10-02T22:10:49Z

The commercial breakthrough that erotic thrillers needed, it has most recently been re-adapted for the stage – complete with Dearden's original ending, the one test audiences rejected, almost causing Glenn Close to walk. The sag of the erotic thriller: can film ever take sex seriously again? 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

They made 22 films together, and if Mangano never reached the superstar heights of Ponti's bride, Sophia Loren, she matured into an actress of erotic elegance. In Remembrance of Erratic Film Producer Dino De Laurentiis 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z

Ridiculous, yes, given the whirligig of power, not to mention the musical and amorous high jinks in which Justine Mitchell’s Elena, Alexei’s sister, finds herself the erotic pivot of an increasingly fractured male world. Review: Howard Davies Play Explores Ukraine's Troubles in Wake of 1917 Revolution 2010-04-13T11:49:00Z

I spent the whole next day working in an erotic delirium. Patti Smith showed me what sacred music is 2013-06-26T10:15:58Z

So something that will seem innocuous or unrelated to the kid, for the pedophile, for whom this has an erotic or sometimes even romantic tinge, that will be the lens through which he perceives everything.” Teacher: Sex with students was “casual” and “warm” 2012-06-25T21:15:00Z

Hearing his music, she envisioned “someone as lonely as me who needed to be kissed and infuriated in just the right way,” Ms. Parker writes, her erotic charge at full voltage. Review: In ‘Dear Mr. You,’ Mary-Louise Parker Writes to Men, With Lust and Rue 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

The Oscar-winning actor suggested as much at the Cannes film festival, saying she’d consider a sideways move into the adult film industry to make erotic movies which embrace a female point of view. Susan Sarandon: 'I want to direct female-friendly porn in my 80s' 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

Their images are notable for their modern simplicity and erotic undercurrents. PaJaMa, Whose Photographs Breathed Eroticism 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

If George Eliot can be prolix in her moralising some times, and Lawrence over-insistent in his erotic sermonising, why can't these novels of drastic elixirs and lecherous tonics occasionally over-prescribe their poisons? Howard Jacobson: In praise of bad boys' books 2012-10-05T21:55:17Z

At times "Sextet" seems to use these biographies as an excuse for graphic erotic writhing, groping and splashing. New play 'Sextet' explores link between misery and art 2010-10-21T17:11:00Z

From claustrophobic drawings of skeletal figures sheltering from air raids to primitive stone masks and vast, erotic wooden female figures, it traces Moore's work over more than 40 years. Dark side of sculptor Henry Moore on show in London 2010-02-22T20:22:00Z

Hartley, living in Berlin, was Stieglitz’s reporter on the ground during World War I, sending back Continental art news along with paintings composed of erotic and militaristic emblems. Art Review: Alfred Stieglitz at the Metropolitan Museum - Review 2011-10-13T22:23:17Z

Their interaction feels combative, but also erotic, like a sensuous pas de deux. Art Review: ?The Ungovernables: 2012 New Museum Triennial? 2012-02-16T23:45:32Z

Any kind of romantic or erotic attachment is forbidden, and disciplinary methods range from comical to horrific. Review: In ‘The Lobster,’ Colin Farrell Plays a Divorced Man in a Loner-Hating Society 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

In this story of an aristocratic lady-killer, Lady Murasaki explores the concept of erotic transference: the tendency to fall for someone who resembles a lost or unattainable loved one. ‘The Tale of Genji’: The work of a brilliant widow 1,000 years ago 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

Shiu, whose father Stephen Shiu Sr. served as executive producer on the original "Sex and Zen," said he believes he has capitalized on a huge desire for 3-D erotic movies. 3-D erotic comedy shakes up Hong Kong box office 2011-04-20T09:46:04Z

For instance, to manifest a new home, I might imagine myself inside it: my bare feet against the floor, naked on the new sofa and something erotic happening there. My life in sex: the woman who achieves her goals by masturbation 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

They created films that ranged from the erotic milestone of “Morocco” to the mesmerizing camp of “Shanghai Express” until their amorous and creative partnership wore thin and follies like “The Scarlet Empress” alienated their audiences. ‘Dietrich & Riefenstahl’ review: Two women who made fateful choices 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

Pleasant as it is to look at nubile bodies entwined, the sex they have conveys little passion or erotic charge. Review: ‘Bang Gang,’ Seaside Orgies to a Soundtrack of Yawns 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

They give the impression of being wildly personal, even as the experiences they describe—in this case, the erotic union of spouses—are common. Sharon Olds Sings the Body Electric 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

Perhaps Mr. Greenberg, a director and choreographer, means to emphasize the eventual tedium of erotic experience, the desensitization that pornography invites. Review: In ‘Genet Porno,’ Yvan Greenberg Leaves Little to the Imagination 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z

Gospel traditions, erotic need, African American vernacular English and plenty of blank space on well-organized pages come together in “The Collection Plate,” Allen’s debut. Four New Poetry Books Mine Their Authors’ Pasts for Music and Meaning 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

Or was I revising my erotic trajectory with a less pathetic ending? A spy in the house of my first love 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z

But while this screenplay lacks a verve or poetry in its language, Mohseni and Chen are able to work through it and find gestures that make their awkward and erotic energy feel sincere. ‘See You Then’ Review: The More Things Stay the Same 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z

The show’s final season, which concludes Monday, jumped to the mid-1980s, when VHS technology made it possible for people to watch erotic films easily at home. What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Deuce’ Series Finale and an Early Hitchcock 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

Once Frank and Cora dispense with her immigrant husband, all that’s left is to dispense with each other in an erotic rage. When noir blew up! 2012-12-12T18:03:00Z

Or, more specifically, he may be funniest when he’s reading an erotic fan letter – which is less about him, more about his co-star, but still sufficiently awkward. Exploring Bryan Cranston’s funny side: his best comedic moments 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

I was in my 20s, and quite happy to share erotic stories with my then husband, about innocent virgins and their seduction. Why sex and love don’t belong in the same bed 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z

That the moment, when it arrives, is not particularly erotic is perhaps the most surprising thing of all. The Gimlet Eye: For Dazzle Dancers, It?s Clothing Optional 2010-05-19T19:42:00Z

But at this age, his first “erotic dream” becomes ludicrous, especially when it is represented by commonplace prim operatic ballet. Chinese opera 'Dream of the Red Chamber' opens in San Francisco with much ambition, too little nerve 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

And no one writes about erotic misadventures with more vicious humor than Choi. Review | Susan Choi’s ‘Trust Exercise’ invites you to recall the highs and humiliations of adolescence 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

When they enter Ben’s ransacked home, Ray and Teague realize a computer is missing but see there’s no shortage of erotic art and sex toys. 'True Detective' recap: Bizarre murder threatens to derail land scheme 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

Dreaming of erotic content “may be almost by chance, or as a depiction of an important waking life concern or event.” Should we take our sex dreams seriously? 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

What made it so erotic was what she said. My sexual awakening at 70 2014-04-14T00:00:00Z

In those productions, she played a young woman, Sigrid, who drives her boss, the middle-aged industrialist named Helena, to erotic distraction and destruction. The Enemy of Youth 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

The R-rated plot of Debussy’s “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun,” staged by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes with erotic choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky in the title role, provoked a scandal at its premiere in 1912. Music Review | New York Philharmonic: The Toe-Tapping Starts at the Podium 2010-02-19T23:15:00Z

That's right, Christian Grey is sexually aroused by the idea of recreating Body of Evidence, the terrible early-90s erotic thriller that probably signalled the lowest point of Madonna's entire career, in its grotty entirety. Fifty Shades of Grey trailer review: through a glass, daftly 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

I can write a Western, I can write an erotic novel, I could read all the science fiction, short stories, literary stories, and they're all new because nobody put black people in those stories. Walter Mosley on the fantasy of Whiteness and how Dubya was worse than Trump 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

While these often came to be seen as gentle and reassuring, Moore intended them to have an erotic charge. Dark side of sculptor Henry Moore on show in London 2010-02-22T20:22:00Z

And if none of the others have anything to do with sex, in what regard are they erotic? Catherine Hakim: charm school marm 2011-08-19T22:01:41Z

Driving merciless bargains with men for every erotic encounter? Critical eye: reviews roundup 2011-08-26T21:54:01Z

“I needed this version to be erotic and to actually glorify eroticism as an actual and vital need,” she said. For Emma Corrin, Identity Is an Ever-Evolving Project 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

Rather than fall into an Oscar-bait spiral after Atlantic City, she took a role in Tony Scott’s odd, erotic horror film. Susan Sarandon: five best moments 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Generet’s show, “A Marvelous Night,” takes its title from Van Morrison’s “Moondance,” a song he stamped with an intense erotic heat. Music Review: Gregory Generet at the Metropolitan Room 2012-03-30T22:52:00Z

“But I could sense a certain erotic tension between us.” What does Hollywood's reverence for child rapist Roman Polanski tell us? 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

Boucher's erotic mythological fantasies are floating concoctions of silk and skin, ethereal and flimsy and ... hugely pleasurable. For critics, it's better to be interesting than right 2011-01-28T13:02:56Z

The story stars an unhinged heroine who believes she’s turning into a tree, and features some of the strangest erotic passages in literature. ‘The Vegetarian,’ a Surreal South Korean Novel 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

But the erotic allure of the picture amounts to an F You to salacious male expectations. Scent of a Woman 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

For the past few episodes it's been plain that the erotic sizzle of the first seasons has long been spent. ‘The Affair’ Season 3, Episode 8: People See What They Want to See 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z

With all its tenors, Rossini’s “Otello” results in inevitable moments of shoutiness, but it also aptly renders the idea of a crowded field of competitors all vying for the same narrow erotic and political territory. Review: The Desdemona in This ‘Otello’ Spits Fire 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

The star of the erotic fiction written by comedian Jamie Morton’s father has taught the world that a regional sales conference has just as much potential for naked fun as a business trip to Amsterdam. There's a search for a fifth meat – and 19 other things podcasts taught us in 2016 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

He was acquitted of those charges, but found guilty of immorality for exposing children to the erotic drawings he had lying around in his studio. ‘Egon Schiele: Portraits’ at Neue Galerie 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

Few cinematic genres are as simultaneously alluring and enigmatic as the erotic thriller. Where have all the erotic thrillers gone? 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

The long opening section shows newly liberated Toby Fleishman, age 41, gorging at the erotic smorgasbord now available to him through dating apps. Perspective | ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ was banned 90 years ago. Now we’re — yawn — bored by obscenity. 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

It is both very erotic and very uncomfortable. Juno Temple: 'I’ve finally hit puberty on camera. Woo-hoo!' 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

A telling confirmation that the subject of a painting can matter irrespective of the name attached to it came when a large erotic picture done in 1612 by the Dutch school artist Hendrick Goltzius appeared. 2010-01-30T05:37:00Z

I wonder, is Santa Claus erotic to people? Q&A with John Waters, coming to Seattle on Dec. 5 2013-12-03T15:16:25Z

In the “Sex Pictures” series, she removed real bodies from the pictures and, in scenes of erotic abuse, substituted gender-scrambled figures composed from prosthetic parts. Cindy Sherman’s Divas, Poised for a Final Close-Up 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

Pointless, lackluster detours into petty sexual dramas between the Nazis are sprinkled throughout, and, more effectively, suspicions of an erotic liaison between Gilles and Koch tease out their bond’s derangement. ‘Persian Lessons’ Review: Performing for His Life 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z

Gay male erotica is among the most popular categories of erotic fiction – though not, surprisingly enough, with gay men. Gay vampires and bisexual cowboys: why erotica has e-readers to thank 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

Peyton's paintings draw on the ephemeral beauty and erotic symbolism of plants. This week's new exhibitions 2012-06-01T23:06:18Z

Transforming the opera into an erotic thriller, the film was shot in Budapest, with the performers singing live on set rather than lip-synching to a pre-recorded soundtrack. Mozart: Don Giovanni Juan DVD – review 2012-12-12T16:55:06Z

On a deeper level, “Carol” is a quietly revolutionary film that examines the erotic subtexts buried in “women’s pictures” starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, whose eyes also blazed with fury and desire. The Best Movies of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

It played to Mr. Browne’s kinky emphasis on erotic suppression. In Paris, the Hunt for Real Emotion 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z

Other publishers followed Munsey’s lead, and for the first half of the 20th century pulp fiction supplied escapist fantasies of adventure and erotic excitement in abundance for a newly literate, mostly working-class population. Art Review: Illustrating Damsels in Distress and Emissaries From Our Deep, Dark Ids 2011-07-14T21:53:57Z

It can be difficult to identify when a romance gets hot enough to tip from sexy romance into erotic romance, because not everyone defines “explicit” in the same way. “People are at their most vulnerable when they’re naked together”: The rise of erotic romance 2014-01-04T00:00:00Z

She raids her mom’s refrigerator to determine which vegetables provide the deepest erotic satisfaction. REVIEW: Wetlands: A Schmutzy Comedy With an Adorable New Star 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

Any writing "on skin" is done through erotic encounters in this strange love triangle, or through the exacting stylus of George Benjamin himself. Los Angeles Philharmonic/Dudamel; Written on Skin – review 2013-03-17T00:06:26Z

Maggie Gyllenhaal helped bring S&M into the mainstream in her portrayal of a woman who develops an erotic relationship with her boss. Before ‘Fifty Shades Darker’: 10 Kinky Films 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

White tells me that the most erotic scene she ever shot – with Ruth Wilson in Jane Eyre – didn’t feature much nudity. 'Everyone's heard the horror stories' – how to do an ethical sex scene 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

The rental villas can be quirky, too—think erotic paintings, cushions strewn everywhere, and strategically sited beds. Pacific Playground: Mexico's Costa Careyes 2012-09-07T15:58:19Z

Readers who live in rural areas without a convenient bookstore, or without a bookstore that sells erotic romance, can instantly buy whatever they want to read. “People are at their most vulnerable when they’re naked together”: The rise of erotic romance 2014-01-04T00:00:00Z

By that time, a virus has been released in the village of the play’s title, an uneasy, erotic itch that you know is going to keep spreading. ‘The Village Bike’ Stars Greta Gerwig as a Woman Obsessed 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

“An erotic movie that is close to my own life,” he said, “where sex is portrayed as it happens in real life.” Film: Turn on, Tune in to a Trippy Afterlife 2010-09-19T04:36:00Z

But Heti makes this erotic compulsion a keystone of Sheila’s quest to figure out what she wants from life and how to get it. Sheila Heti gets sex wrong 2012-09-28T23:30:00Z

The story is erotic and at times intensely honest, as both men struggle to reconcile desire with responsibility. Love is love: The best LGBT romance novels 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z

Almost none of Outerbridge’s erotic pictures were shown in his lifetime. When Color Was Vulgar: Paul Outerbridge’s Avant-Gardist’s Eye 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

Apart from a heated argument among dance experts in the audience, no bombs went off, and the erotic body remained mostly hidden. Review: Sexy Soviet Ballet Steps, Once Delivered as Protest 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

Sex workers are among those under pressure from an anti-pornography law, locally dubbed the anti-mini skirt law, which seeks to police erotic behavior. 'Bad' laws hurt sex workers, gays from Uganda to Nepal, AIDS meeting told 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

The evening closed with the final scene from Salome, in which Strauss reinvents Oscar Wilde's decadent tragedy as a study in erotic psychopathology and extreme dissonance. LPO/Jurowski – review 2013-01-20T16:36:36Z

Though Kidman is solid as a wife and mom tormented by her daughter's secret erotic life, "Strangerland" never successfully welds its central mystery with its psychosexual drapings, leaving neither especially interesting. Too many shifts haunt 'Strangerland' 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

“And she had her right leg up. It was erotic and loving. I don’t know if she used a filter, but it was beautiful.” The Selfie That Dares to Go There 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z

"He wrote satirical, erotic songs," Sanders said, rattling off titles such as "Morning, Morning," "The Garden is Open" and "Kill for Peace." '60s anti-war rocker Tuli Kupferberg dies in NYC 2010-07-13T17:01:00Z

I had a recent conversation with a librarian concerned at the number of year 10 and 11 pupils reading EL James's erotic bestseller Fifty Shades of Grey. James Dawson: why teens in books can't swear 2012-07-11T08:03:27Z

There is nothing untoward about this portrayal, yet it is subtly erotic. Art Review: ‘Ferdinand Hodler: View to Infinity,’ at Neue Galerie 2012-09-20T21:50:42Z

Often incorporating female protagonists, she wrote erotic Gothic chillers for adults and modern myths for children, and she reinterpreted fairy tales with even more frightful twists. Tanith Lee, Fantasy and Horror Novelist, Dies at 67 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

If the pans and pears did have an erotic feeling, he said, it was "probably due to my love for the primitive and for the elemental". William Scott, the painter who made the everyday into a masterpiece 2013-03-02T08:00:10Z

It’s a musical comedy about a nun who leaves the convent to start a line of erotic kimonos. Now That’s a Play I’d Like to See 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

By contrast, Schoenberg’s “The Book of Hanging Gardens” is situated in a monstrously fertile landscape in which every luscious plant and sinuous animal conspires to heighten the poet’s erotic agony. Review: ‘Book of Hanging Gardens,’ Sung by Christian Gerhaher 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

The ancient Romans also loved to display erotic artifacts, with everything from lamps to garden statuary. Pompeii exhibit in NYC shines light on buried city 2011-03-04T15:42:09Z

Rather than science fiction, the comic is closer to amiable French sex farce, but fired by Barbarella’s erotic energy. A French Siren Returns 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

This trite premise is stretched glacially over 90 minutes in “Clementine,” an erotic thriller that runs low on both erotics and thrills. ‘Clementine’ Review: Lovers by the Lake 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

About Sue: Harold Bloom was skeptical that the real Emily Dickinson ever shared an erotic embrace with her sister-in-law. “Dickinson,” from Apple TV+, Is Deeply Weird and Dazzles Gradually 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

“Sex can throw the challenges we face into almost unbearably high relief,” he says, noting how tricky it can be to shift gears from erotic transport to child-care duty and crises at the office. The gulf between spirited sex and everyday life 2013-01-30T19:32:25Z

I didn’t know it was erotic; I just wrote a romantic story. "Queen of Erotica" Zane On How Fifty Shades Affects the Sexy-Book Scene 2012-08-01T14:33:06Z

If erotic romance has such a strong basic appeal, why has it taken until now for it to go mainstream? “People are at their most vulnerable when they’re naked together”: The rise of erotic romance 2014-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Other boys my age were at football games and the Orioles and the Colts, but I was thinking about Blaze Starr, and not in an erotic way, either,” Waters told The Associated Press on Monday. Blaze Starr, Burlesque Dancer Linked to Governor, Dead 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

The mirrored room’s playful sea of erotic forms was far tamer than an audacious work like “Meat Joy,” Carolee Schneemann’s filmed Dionysian celebration of flesh as an artistic material. Yayoi Kusama at the Broad: Lots of mirrors, not so much artistic reflection 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z

I found their first sex scene really moving, and not especially erotic. Sex has as much meaning as words: how Normal People handles intimacy 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z

As China does not have a film ratings system - enabling movie-goers of any age to see any film - it bans erotic content in cinemas. 3D erotic film beats Avatar in Hong Kong 2011-04-20T10:47:10Z

Lithe in white silk, she was astonishingly good at catching the erotic fever of Shakespeare's young heroines. Susannah York obituary 2011-01-16T10:38:03Z

With her unlined face and only slightly pendulous, full-figured body, she appears, at 78, a figure of remarkably undiminished erotic appeal. Art in Review: Joan Semmel 2011-05-06T06:15:06Z

My body felt like an erotic solar panel, drenched in sexual energy from the sun. How I joined the Mile High Club: Naked, weightless, giggling uncontrollably 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z

I didn’t make it to Stageworks that year, but the following summer, I caught the company’s nifty production of Bryony Lavery’s “Stockholm,” another erotic thriller in which love and death dance cheek to cheek. Kieron Barry’s ‘Tomorrow in the Battle’: A Love Triangle 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

When she attends the opening of the agency, there are moments of erotic frisson that validate Jean's fears. Juliette Binoche is torn between two lovers in Claire Denis' potent "Both Sides of the Blade" 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z

Donald B. Clark suggests that "death, the only solution to her conflict, is revealed by the imagery to be erotic satisfaction." The simple question that inspired "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z

The prints on display will feature Lennon’s distinctive quasi-calligraphic caricatures, from simple family portraits to the infamous “Bag One” series of erotic images. Weekend Miser: John Lennon’s Sideline, Up for View 2012-10-04T22:30:06Z

Her songs limn the erotics of danger and also the pains of disappointment, drawing equal strength from both. Music Review: Fiona Apple at Music Hall of Williamsburg 2012-03-25T22:04:58Z

According to the program notes, the Aïtas belong to a “profound singing tradition” but can also occupy a disreputable social position with erotic overtones. Dance Review: A Moroccan Tradition in Full Cry 2010-09-23T22:05:00Z

The duet includes extraordinary poetic images of erotic need, compounded by anguish about life itself. Television Review | 'N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz': Reimagining Jerome Robbins? ?Ballet in Sneakers? 2010-03-23T22:17:00Z

But Le Riche powers through it to devastating existential and erotic effect. English National Ballet: Ecstasy and Death – review 2013-04-19T16:41:45Z

The erotics of looking gave his sex movies both some of their sensation and their paradoxical moral tinge: that which feels right but is wrong. All That Sex and Blood, Mr. De Palma! 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

Kat, another main character in the show, develops a strategy to avoid letting others bargain for her sexuality: she creates her own web account where people pay her for erotic video chats. How "Euphoria" challenges viewers’ expectations of what a television show should be 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z

Mr. Galway’s transformation from merry piper to erotic Pan was less than complete in a brisk account of Debussy’s unaccompanied “Syrinx,” which initially lacked an optimal sense of mystery. Music Review: From Twilight?s Mysteries Right Up to the 25th Hour 2011-03-13T21:47:34Z

Of all the historical documents the U.S. government would unearth, the erotic writings of President Warren G. Harding couldn't have been high up on anyone's wishlist. The sappy, poignant, and risqué love letters of 7 world leaders 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z

Smutty pictures that moved had an immediacy that Guccione's artful erotic tableaux lacked. Penthouse's Bob Guccione: The Dark Prince of Porn 2010-10-21T08:45:00Z

Most of them take for granted a high degree of candor in erotic matters, and in their low-key, earnest way they seem to communicate pretty well. | 'Autoerotic': When Sex Is Loneliness Multiplied 2011-07-21T21:47:40Z

Much of India’s classical art, including its classical dance, is unambiguously erotic. Nrityagram: Under My Skin 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z

We all have hands and a 24/7 onslaught of erotic imagery at our disposals. Can’t have an orgasm? Your partner isn’t “clitorate”? Here’s some helpful advice 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

Poppy finds in Westmead’s library a book full of erotic illustrations, and what she sees in those pages sends her mind spinning with what it reveals of Westmead’s desires — and her own. In These Romance Novels, the Characters Are Sexy, Hot and Toting a Ton of Emotional Baggage 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

You might expect the Crazy Horse — a cabaret trading in overtly erotic entertainment — to be the worst offender. Paris Cabarets: Can We Ask for More Than the Cancan? 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

But Ty Dolla Sign’s imagination is in the arrangements — he does a good deal of the production himself — which are lush and erotic. Critic’s Notebook: He’s Acting Out; It’s on Purpose 2013-07-10T21:52:21Z

The complaint included screen shots of sexually explicit messages and details about her sexual fantasies, and threatened to expose her as the author of an erotic story she published online under a pseudonym. Sex, Plagiarism and Spyware. This Is Not Your Average Copyright Complaint. 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z

Ms. Schneemann calls it “as an erotic ritual for my starved culture.” Review: MoMA Puts Judson Dance on Display and, Better Yet, in Motion 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

But, take it from me, in the right hands – mine – it is a bread that can be both powerfully manly and erotic. Bread by Paul Hollywood – digested read 2013-02-17T19:30:01Z

James’ writing is almost a parody of erotic romance to begin with.” In the wake of “50 Shades of Grey,” what’s even better than sex? Ridiculous sex 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

Isn't theatre always somehow underpinned by – though, of course, not limited to – the erotic? Pecs v performance: the flaws of attraction in theatre 2010-09-22T15:36:00Z

Strangely youthful though old, crackling with erotic appeal and a lover to both sexes, Alice is the kind of woman who makes Potts "feel less important than he knew himself to be". The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson – review 2012-08-16T07:00:01Z

After tasting a dish infused with rose petals, a young woman experiences an erotic awakening so intense that she gallops off with a passing soldier. It’s Story Time at Ballet Theater, With a Best Seller Twist 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z

The memorable images in this show range from everyday scenes to gently erotic reveries to moments of great literary drama. In the galleries: Artist takes a detour on her journey to the past 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

“The only way they can deal with the ways that they are held down, treated as scum, is to invent a murderous erotic fantasy.” Interpreting ‘The Maids’ Through a Shifting Societal Lens 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

Half-a-dozen artists also toy with a bed theme in "The Beds," which invites attendees to "lounge, interact ... and explore some erotic tension." Seattle Erotic Art Festival: tough, tender, witty, kitschy, for adults only 2010-04-29T20:19:00Z

Kristel went on to star in several Emmanuelle sequels, as well as more mainstream films - many of which, like Lady Chatterley's Lover and Mata Hari, played on her reputation as an erotic film star. Emmanuelle actress Kristel dies 2012-10-18T11:15:54Z

The show began with the spotlight on vampires, but their weird universe rapidly grew in size, eventually incorporating werewolves, werepanthers, erotic fairies and parallel dimensions. How True Blood's supernatural hedonism changed genre television 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

One of its court artists was, however, the most provocative erotic artist of the Renaissance. Are these Shakespeare's dirty pictures? 2010-12-10T13:46:00Z

Perhaps more interesting than the drop-off in erotic activity is the gleeful way that it is reported; a mixture of prurience and self-laceration driving these frantic swan songs for our sexual lives. How the British changed their minds about sex 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

Shows like “Sex and the City” paved the way for people to talk freely about casual and edgy sex, which meant being more comfortable with reading and writing erotic romance. “People are at their most vulnerable when they’re naked together”: The rise of erotic romance 2014-01-04T00:00:00Z

Photographic surveys of underground communities, a Brazilian artist’s books and films, a fictional perfume campaign and an array of naughty erotic drawings. Datebook: Brazil artist books, underground photos & Guerrilla Girls 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

This speech feels private, even erotic, but beyond the curtain, you can hear other actors reciting the same words in more or less the same tones. Review: ‘I’m Bleeding All Over the Place’ Explores a Psyche (Don’t Get Hurt) 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

Because this same woman is wearing loneliness just as convincingly — and affectingly — as she once sported irresistible erotic allure. Review: Passion Pursued in ‘Do I Hear a Waltz?’ 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

Taia, who now lives in Paris, said he'd arrived at the festival not knowing how his openly erotic writing would be received, but he had been delighted by the response. Stranded in Beirut, the Arab literary world takes wing 2010-04-19T14:25:00Z

"Goop" introduces what's called an erotic blueprint, through which couples can understand their sexual compatibilities and bridge their erotic differences. From Goop to puppets, how Netflix is offering sex ed for a new age 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

But Natalie Walter’s sexless occupancy of the part doesn’t exactly up the erotic potential. Theater Review: Clifford Odets's Dentist, Anything but Painless 2011-04-05T13:30:07Z

Like Penthouse, the magazine he founded, edited and frequently shot photo essays for, Bob Guccione radiated a sleazy erotic charisma. Penthouse's Bob Guccione: The Dark Prince of Porn 2010-10-21T08:45:00Z

Richards is showing Rosebud 2013, a film which includes partially censored, erotic images from a book found in a Tokyo library. Turner Prize winner to be announced 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z

I think a lot has to do with the fact that in the scheme of things e-books are relatively young and the really hot erotic romance is mostly published by e-book-first publishers. Before “Fifty Shades of Grey” 2012-07-14T23:00:00Z

She hopes that Mélissa’s living relative will help her address an erotic obsession. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Zombi Child’ and ‘Inside Man’ 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z

Though erotic and shocking, it’s also organic and inexorable. How I Spent My Summer: With Bernstein and Stravinsky 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

The surgeons take a couple of nerves from the arm and the inner thigh to hook up to the clitoral nerve to give you the erotic sensation. Me and my penis: 100 men reveal all 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z

The book's a combination of erotic short stories that are hopefully funny, and hopefully erotic, and other stuff, more listy or theme-based, all in the form of a school textbook tome. Kristen Schaal: The toast of American comedy 2010-10-15T23:03:00Z

House of games … the Palace of Westminster is the setting for an erotic encounter. Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty – review 2013-06-08T08:31:01Z

The lovers seem to emerge from the sand itself and to solidify through the power of erotic desire. Picasso and beach culture: a cocktail of sand and sensuality 2011-08-18T14:36:21Z

The scenes are slightly messy and spontaneous – often the reality of female erotic pleasure. 'Oral sex – and no scissoring!' How the lesbian gaze changed cinema 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

The affair between the story’s two teenage girls, sealed with kisses and heated up through an erotic fantasy, certainly attracted attention when “Circumstance” had its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January. Critic?s Notebook: Awkward Embraces, Assured Directors 2011-03-27T21:52:50Z

Disembowelment and death provided an erotic climax of unspeakable perversity. A chilling portrait of Germany's Weimar era emerges in 'New Objectivity' at LACMA 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

Bergman – the great poetic master of doubt, faith, love, erotic enchantment and the silence of God – was born 100 years ago this year. Bergman: why are the great director's women all tragi-sexual goddesses? 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z

E L James' erotic "Fifty Shades of Grey" trilogy was a big hit in both places, especially in Knoxville, which advanced from No. 12 last year. Amazon.com's most well-read city: Alexandria, Va. 2013-04-24T15:25:16Z

Instead, the erotic might run best on something raw. Daniel Bergner: 'Women's desire is an underestimated and constrained force' 2013-07-05T21:34:00Z

Cleese and Jason were both signed – for undisclosed sums – by Random House, flush with cash after the unstoppable success of EL James's erotic trilogy Fifty Shades of Grey. John Cleese and David Jason reap Fifty Shades bonanza 2012-10-05T12:40:16Z

I remember his body, his luscious body, his erotic body, his carnal body, his animal body, the body he has shared with me longer than he has been alone. How my husband forgot sex 2014-02-13T00:00:00Z

“If ‘In Praise of Older Women’ goes not much of anywhere as a novel,” he wrote, “as an essay on erotics it is refreshing.” Stephen Vizinczey, ‘In Praise of Older Women’ Author, Dies at 88 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

That subtly erotic work, along with 11 others, is on display at the Florida museum until March 31, 2013 in a show called "The Royal Inheritance: Dalí Works From the Spanish National Collection." From Spain to Florida: new Dali exhibit begins 2012-10-11T18:13:08Z

But 178 years after her death, Anne Lister is best known for her string of female lovers, with their erotic encounters explicitly chronicled in a coded diary stretching to 27 volumes. Recognition at last for Gentleman Jack, Britain’s ‘first modern lesbian’ 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z

The more important question in your letter is whether you’ll be able to resurrect your erotic self. I’m 70, and I Want to Still Want Sex 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z

“Personal Shopper,” for which Assayas won the prize for Best Director at last year’s Cannes festival, is a ghost story, an erotic thriller, and an inner journey of personal identity. Review: “Personal Shopper” and the Misunderstood Art of Kristen Stewart 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

They are divorcés who have dabbled in erotic yoga and enjoy a friendly game of basketball. How Many Jokes About the Upper West Side Can You Make? 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

Titian painted a notably erotic Mary Magdalene for her. Who Was Vittoria Colonna? Just One of Italy’s Great Poets... 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

In one very long pan shot, in their mutually coalescing solitude, they grapple with a physical aggression nonetheless infused with the fullness of their fraternal love, which turns it passionately, albeit subliminally, erotic. What’s Missing from “Foxcatcher” 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

The games, both sporting and erotic, played by these people are rendered in various body-contorting pas de deux, in which civilized and primal impulses seem to do battle. ‘The Adults’ and ‘99 Breakups’ at the FringeArts Festival in Philadelphia 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

It is erotic – feverish with desire, need and fulfilment, however transient. Cannibal-themed "Bones and All" makes the ultimate case for veganism 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z

It brims over with energy and colour, Mars's red mantle swelling with erotic fury in response to the folded, yellow robes of the vestal virgin, surprised in her sleep. The Magnificent Collections of the Prince of Liechtenstein - review 2011-08-02T13:01:56Z

Once, at a private recital, Pauline and Richard Wagner himself took the two vocal parts in his intensely erotic Act II duet from “Tristan und Isolde.” Review | A welcome reminder that there’s value to being a citizen of the world 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

Perel is small and blond, with an elfin face, intense, peppy charisma, and a Francophone accent that serves to bolster her psychoanalytic and erotic authority. Esther Perel Lets Us Listen In on Couples’ Secrets 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

Hardy, lost in his poetic and erotic reveries, cares more for the pines and beeches than he does for most people. ‘Winter’: a passionate reimagining of Thomas Hardy’s troubled love life 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

And it is only in this definitive volume that even Ginsberg has finally published his Many Loves, which the dust jacket primly describes as "an erotic rhapsody" hitherto withheld "for reasons of prudence and modesty." Allen Ginsberg interview: From the archive, 24 April 1985 2013-04-24T06:30:00Z

For many, reading an erotic romance is like having an affair where no one gets hurt. Why we're putting the 'missing' sex scenes back into Charlotte Brontë 2012-07-17T14:30:04Z

It may originate in a sort of erotic consecration, but love and pain, joy and punishment, seem increasingly convergent, at least in the ways that people express themselves online. Love, Death, and Begging for Celebrities to Kill You 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z

She withdraws her maternal love after Jaime forces the boy to cut off his flowing blond locks and confounds poor Alejandro by alternating chilly reserve with erotic provocation. ‘The Dance of Reality,’ Jodorowsky’s Comeback Film 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

These 34 stories, however compressed, are rooted in the dramatic potential of extramarital affairs and erotic regret. Diane Williams Navigates the Tricky Business of Intimacy 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z

We seem to be living in times where Fifty Shades of Grey – sorry, I had to say it – is so explicit that just flashing a bit of ankle might be the new erotic. Chloe Hooper: 'I see this as an anti-erotic novel' 2013-01-19T18:00:01Z

Brooke — and the audience — get to enjoy the erotic thrill of being overpowered without any of the real complications. Sheila Heti gets sex wrong 2012-09-28T23:30:00Z

What Moreau is offering is not an erotic escape into innocence, but a frightening descent into the primitive. DVD: New on Blu-ray: Erle C. Kenton?s ?Island of Lost Souls? 2011-10-22T02:53:02Z

Once she slips into traditional dress, she flutters into the air like a butterfly, her body arcing against Ip Man’s in an erotic pantomime of yin and yang. Movie Review: ‘The Grandmaster,’ Wong Kar-wai’s New Film 2013-08-22T21:24:54Z

It is an unnerving tale mixing erotic enthrallment with pathos and horror. Review | Escapist reading in the fantasy novels and weird tales from another time 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z

Strictly enforcing one’s privacy — at a time when so much goes public as fast at it happens — may be the ultimate public display of power, and thus the most erotic. The Coy Art of the Mystery Bidder 2010-05-08T18:32:00Z

When she talks him into modeling for her, she uses the session to cure him — pronto! — of his erotic ailments. 'Waiting for Sunrise' asks: What happened in pre-WWI Vienna? 2012-04-18T22:55:06Z

In these painstaking sheets, capricious or perverse, steeped in powder blue and misty rose, Lequeu proved that architecture can be an erotic art, in which buildings get confused for bodies and vice versa. 14 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

"Do you think the reason we don't allow women to capitalise on their erotic resources is because we disapprove of sex?" Catherine Hakim: charm school marm 2011-08-19T22:01:41Z

It is a brilliant, subliminal flash of erotic adventure. I Know Where I'm Going! changes direction on Mull 2011-08-24T15:25:19Z

What’s more, it was directed by a self-proclaimed feminist who approached the film as the story of a woman figuring out her erotic wants and needs. The Top 11 Moments for Women in Pop Culture in 2015 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

It's another controlled, layered performance, in a drama that flows from subtle erotic tension to tearful confrontation, modulated by Chopin and minimal piano music by composer Dustin O'Halloran. Drake Doremus on Breathe In: 'I feel a mid-life crisis coming' 2013-07-18T14:20:20Z

Price's work is an erotic encounter of objects, surfaces and colliding categories. British Art Show 7: have I got spews for you 2010-10-25T20:30:00Z

The characters, the dialogue, the sets and costumes and music are all firmly in mid-90s, low-budget erotic thriller territory, and there’s barely a concession to modernity to be found anywhere. Is Renee Zellweger's Netflix thriller the best trash TV show of 2019? 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

Taking lovers of various erotic persuasions, she was a pioneer of queer. Dada Was Born 100 Years Ago. So What? 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

Below, two performers negotiated a private conflict, erotic and aggressive. (La)Horde: Dancing Out Primal Impulses and Resistance 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z

The thought of being able, even tangentially, to blame bad weather on the BBC is enough to make some tabloid editors have an erotic accident. If only weathermen were honest and said forecasts were just a bit of fun 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z

Excerpts from Stockhausen’s erotic poetry are intoned, as are the days of the week, in both English and German. Flourishes From Denmark, Stockhausen’s ‘Stimmung’ and Marc-André Hamelin 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

But he breaks into an explicit hymn to Venus, which exposes both his erotic secrets and a world of extreme sexual experience beyond the comprehension of prudish Thuringian society. Wagner's Tannh?user 2010-12-11T00:06:00Z

It made Hawthorne jealous, though he himself shared a brief but consuming, erotic connection with Melville. Maria Popova Weaves Together Stories of Human Ingenuity 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

Instead the painting – or part of it – was sold to a Turkish aficionado of erotic art. Gustave Courbet's The Origin of the World still over-excites art critics 2013-02-08T13:57:43Z

Ms. Winocour deftly evokes primal terrors of captivity and cruelty, and also the erotic fascination that lingers around such fears. Movie Review: ‘Augustine,’ by Alice Winocour, Featuring Soko 2013-05-16T21:08:34Z

Now 76 and living in San Francisco, Mr. Huene no longer has the dewy physique that made him a fetish pinup model, not to mention a pioneer of the erotic selfie. Peter Berlin, the ’70s Gay Sex Symbol, Takes New York 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

Despite its enormous popularity, erotic romance is still plagued by ridicule and mocking preconceptions. Gay vampires and bisexual cowboys: why erotica has e-readers to thank 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

But except for one sad, lovely dance Harry and Hermione share to a Nick Cave song, there's no hint of attraction, let alone erotic abrasion. The New Harry Potter: A Hollow Hallows 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z

A friend described the sensation of unveiling these clothes as incredibly erotic. Why You Should Love Secondhand Fashion Now 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z

Given the fact that you ended the relationship because you were “falling for him,” it seems that part of you hoped the erotic connection you felt for this man would lead to a loving relationship. I Had an Affair With a Co-Worker. He Betrayed Me. Now What? 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

In Horace's poem, the speaker implores Venus to wage no further erotic wars on him. Poem of the week: Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae by Ernest Dowson 2011-03-14T11:48:11Z

Paintings of sleeping male nudes are here, as well as canvases with figures hovering in barren, uncanny landscapes or entwined in languid erotic poses. What to See in New York Art Galleries Right Now 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

There is a wonderful, sad, silly piece in Der Spiegel about a group of earnest young people in Berlin who make idealistic erotic films. Evangelical sex activists are no better than religious moralists 2013-06-28T12:05:37Z

Whirring mechanical patterns are dusted lightly with salacious waltzes and Hispanic rhythms – jota, malagueña and habanera – at once arch and suggestive, each beautifully rendered by the London Philharmonic Orchestra in full erotic flight. L'heure espagnole/L'enfant et les sortilèges; BBC Prom 33 – review 2012-08-11T23:05:35Z

"Various things are touched on in the words – Franciscan monks, ketamine, French female bodybuilders turned erotic movie stars," he continues. British Sea Power: Machineries of Joy – exclusive album stream 2013-03-26T12:27:00Z

A member of Congress introduced a motion to ban them from the U.S., and the Vatican condemned their "erotic vagrancy." Elizabeth Taylor, legendary actress, dies at 79 2011-03-23T13:57:00Z

“This is like a love affair where you can’t stop having erotic dreams.” How Drake’s $100 Million Bet Saved the Long-Lost Art Carnival Luna Luna 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z

It’s all too easy to be carried away on a cloud of passion, but much harder to hear what’s really being said between whispered endearments and erotic soliloquies. I had an affair with my friend’s husband, but he’s now betrayed me | Dear Mariella 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z

The film is a little too careful about keeping the lid on its characters’ emotions to bring out the erotic forces percolating under their decorum. Review: ‘Indignation’ Offers a Precisely Rendered, and Repressive, 1950s America 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

This comical, curiously erotic fusion of autodidactic craft and neo-Classical style is believed to have been created by an unknown artisan about 1920 for a Buffalo sex cult. Art Review: A Smorgasbord of Fine Art, the Strange and the Old 2011-01-20T23:18:38Z

A dendrophile’s a person who gets an erotic charge out of nature. | Justin Bond 2010-12-07T19:09:00Z

Sylvia Day's "Entwined With You" was one of the few works of erotic fiction to place high on Amazon's list. Dan Brown's 'Inferno' tops Amazon's list for 2013 2013-12-16T14:24:09Z

Olds frequently borrows religious tropes to write of her erotic life, letting the body take the place where religion had been. Sharon Olds Sings the Body Electric 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

But alas, that contention never infuses the novel with much erotic energy. Review | In Elizabeth Gilbert’s ‘City of Girls,’ a young woman discovers the joys of sex 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z

So keen, in fact, that they had bought, and presumably read, a 250-page erotic guide. 50 years on, "The Joy of Sex" is outdated in parts but still a fun "unanxious" romp 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z

It's only too easy to turn a coolly erotic Gallicism into a ploddingly Anglo-Saxon medical report, or utter filth. Translating erotic fiction: va va voom or personal doom? 2013-02-28T16:25:51Z

And I began to think that Rattigan’s work may have benefited from his not being able to describe directly his own erotic nature. 2010-02-17T03:22:00Z

He also mastered every sort of adaptation, from his erotic, satirical take on Sinclair Lewis’s “Mantrap” to his erotic, tragic take on Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” Film: Pay Attention to the Man Behind the Camera 2010-02-27T03:00:00Z

For the French, legs capture erotic movement in a way that jiggling breasts do not. | Leg Work 2011-09-07T21:58:28Z

In Austen's fiction, as in many novels of the 19th century, a ball is the ultimate occasion for a heady kind of courtship – a trying out of partners that is exciting, flirtatious and downright erotic. Jane Austen: Strictly ballroom 2013-05-03T15:00:01Z

Among the diverse joys embraced are misplaced apostrophes, coffee drinking rituals, belly-slapping in the shower, the specifics of biscuits in Mike Leigh films, and an erotic passage on sharpening pencils. Your books of the year 2012-12-28T22:55:18Z

In one scene, Star and Jake enter a suburban mansion and watch as the owner’s teen-age daughter and her friends perform an erotic dance routine, for Jake’s benefit, in the back garden. Andrea Arnold’s Immersive Cinema 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z

Also around that time, ballet company manager Gennady Yanin quit after erotic photographs of him were posted online in what appeared to be an effort to push him aside. Bolshoi ballet chief has surgery after acid attack 2013-01-18T21:46:05Z

In one, she said, he included an erotic drawing of a man and a woman with her name at the bottom. Past Students Say Professor of Rock ’n’ Roll Sexually Harassed Them 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z

Possibilities for erotic contact — “sexting,” you know, is now in the Oxford English Dictionary — have expanded since these guys first got together. Review: In ‘Steve,’ Contemplating Middle Age and Monogamy 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

Your chances would be about as good as those of our helpless hero in escaping the erotic pull of the show’s title character, thrillingly embodied here by Anika Noni Rose. Review: Bad Girl Makes Good in a Glorious ‘Carmen Jones’ 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

It’s insular and unnerving, a blend of the naïve and the erotic. Reviews of Albums From Grimes, Galactic and Tyga 2012-02-20T23:49:32Z

Indignant scholars have caricatured him as a middlebrow hack who brutally lopped away a tenth of the novel, prudishly censored its erotic passages, and forced Lawrence, in a huff, to take his next novel elsewhere. Sons and Lovers: a century on 2013-05-25T07:00:22Z

Lately an erotic element has been creeping into his work; in one recent poem the beloved is poetry itself, imagined as a mistress who comes at night in a black dress. A Revolutionary of Arabic Verse 2010-10-17T22:03:00Z

The role of opera in the book is perhaps mostly a matter of tone: “The Metropolis Case” is driven by the same mix of exuberance and morbidity, fatalism and erotic energy. Books of The Times: To Wagner, With Love and Morbidity 2010-12-27T23:09:40Z

"His death was made a matter of social conditions, not an erotic duel," Sedova says. St Petersburg's homely tributes to Russia's great artists 2012-11-20T13:56:01Z

Her first stop is Tokyo, where she gasps at 17th-century erotic art, interviews a hotel health worker and attends a host club that offers “private hospitality” to women. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Sex & Love Around the World’ and ‘The Beguiled’ 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z

Sample: “That night I had one of the two erotic dreams I had in China.” ‘The Living Room Show’ Brings Performances to Los Angeles Homes 2013-12-14T00:12:06Z

In owning up to her erotic power, she does what royals have done since the Pharaohs, and probably long before: she identifies herself with the sun. Poem of the week: Bethsabe's Song by George Peele 2010-10-11T10:37:00Z

That's not to say that those pleasures weren't sensual – the feel of denim on skin, dancing and the sticky sweetness of lipgloss were undeniably erotic, she argues. Sex, lies and teenage girls 2013-03-11T11:00:01Z

The act of taking off your clothes is erotic because it is the “transit” between one state of being and another. My week at the naked mountain hut 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z

With convincing honesty she describes their encounter, her emotional and erotic attachment and the infatuation that followed. Faith should harness art's appeal 2010-07-12T15:00:00Z

That goes double for its title character, an alcoholic therapist whose license should probably be revoked, and for at least two other addled souls in this bonkers brew of memory and erotic obsession. ‘Sibyl’ Review: Diagnosing Problems, and Creating More 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

His pictures are highly animated, erotic verging on mechanical, with a strong feeling for the baroque and its cartoonish potential. At Mugler, Genius and Its Limits 2011-03-23T22:23:43Z

In addition to its borderline erotic attention to detail and domino-rally plotting, “Saul” had a real sense of style and flair, a subtly warped visual language and sonic palette found nowhere else on television. Best TV Shows of 2022 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

The name of one of these beings, the Buddha Akshobhya, “the immovable,” says it all and even applies to an out-of-this-world beautiful tantric god locked with his consort in erotic embrace. Art Review: ‘Golden Visions of Densatil’ Opens at Asia Society 2014-02-20T23:13:05Z

She said: "It is not erotic fiction, it describes a violent and abusive relationship." Children need lessons on perils of pornography, say teachers 2013-03-26T14:09:27Z

Neither was there any of the wondrous eeriness or erotic poignancy of Pu Songling’s slightly later classic, “Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio.” Review | The action-packed saga ‘Monkey King: Journey to the West’ gets a modern take 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

However informed by Hitchcock, “Decision to Leave” is pure Park Chan-wook — his earlier movies include the original “Oldboy” and the erotic thriller “The Handmaiden” — through and through in form, style and temperament. ‘Decision to Leave’ Review: A Labyrinth of Desire 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

A book signing by the author of the erotic romance sensation "Fifty Shades of Grey" also attracted overnight waits. Comic-Con wraps after 4 days of pop-art indulgence 2012-07-16T12:24:09Z

E L James’ erotic Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy was a big hit in both places, especially in Knoxville, which advanced from No. 12 last year. Amazon.com’s Most Well-Read City: Alexandria, Va. 2013-04-24T10:24:16Z

Fruits and vegetables, kebabs and whole raw chickens do double service, portraying erotic body parts. Sarah Lucas, Unmasked: From Perverse to Profound 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

The picture does bring Anong and Lee together, for a massage session that gains in erotic intensity over the course of more than 10 minutes. ‘Days’ Review: A Taiwanese Auteur in a Quiet Mode 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

Like the Nemiga River that runs beneath the city, erotic impulses have been forced underground. Critic’s Notebook: In London, ‘Minsk, 2011’ and ‘Mercury Fur’ 2012-06-29T22:09:31Z

But there is more to the foregrounding of this erotic masterpiece than commerce: it exemplifies a theme that runs through this once-in-a-lifetime show. Treasures from Budapest 2010-09-24T21:00:00Z

It is a must-read for any person with even a remote erotic interest in the female gender. The truth about female desire: It’s base, animalistic and ravenous 2013-06-02T00:30:00Z

Lena’s thrill at rediscovering the erotic as she approaches middle age is one of this novel’s two stories of sexual awakening. Books of The Times: ‘The Scent of Pine,’ by Lara Vapnyar 2013-12-31T21:47:12Z

The songs concentrate on appearances and the competitive erotic games indulged in by courtiers in a world of unbounded leisure; the only enemy is boredom. Music Review: Evoking ?50s Glamour, Through Teasing Taunts 2011-06-09T00:02:01Z

What a shame that Playboy’s aesthetic was so absurdly limited, as this is the treatment that every erotic performer, of any size, shape, race, phase of adulthood, gender identity or sexual orientation should have. I Never Planned on Being a Playboy Pinup 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

"Just because men and women are communicating in an erotic, sexual way doesn't mean there's a need for degradation," Pinkett Smith said by phone. Channing Tatum buffs his body of work in 'Magic Mike XXL' 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

There have been a few erotic thrillers in recent years. Where have all the erotic thrillers gone? 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

The number drops to two if I only count “successful” forays into the erotic, where at least one partner actually reaches climax. My husband won’t sleep with me 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z

"I Can't Leave Now" is Grenon at his most erotic, with its big blonde in a suggestive pose, hiking up her skirt, her eyes lidded asymmetrically. Gregory Grenon: oil-on-glass paintings with a stained-glass glow, at Traver Gallery 2012-07-20T15:16:04Z

Her first show, in 1945, was shuttered by the Turin police before it even opened, and for decades after, her erotic watercolors and rubber-slicked abstractions were appreciated by only a few. The Psychosexual World of Carol Rama Still Shocks 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

Fish’s revival strips the mid-century pluck from the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic to reveal what was twisted and erotic at its core. Two Broadway Shows Dismantle the American Myth 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z

Considering that sex is an activity almost everyone participates in and thinks about even more, it’s startling and depressing to think about how few movies connect their characters’ lives with their erotic drives. Blue Is the Warmest Color: How Much Sex Is Too Much Sex? 2013-10-24T19:38:46Z

However, there is always a plateauing or even a reduction of erotic engagement when people have increased access to each other – they may become sexually complacent or even lazy. My boyfriend and I only have sex once a month – and it's clinical, routine and cold 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z

And Bradley King’s rich, saturating lighting sets the tone for Tamara’s artistic and erotic epiphanies. Review: In ‘Lempicka,’ Blond Ambition Is Set in a New Key 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

While hardly a great artist, he did share Burton's taste for the erotic and so nudes feature frequently in the illustrations. The Arabian Nights: a thousand and one illustrations 2011-03-12T00:06:32Z

Women were often boxed into the role of the muse in Surrealist circles, worshipped as an erotic embodiment of the irrational. Leonora Carrington, the surrealist storytelling genius you've never heard of 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z

When a sexually obsessive affair begins, it can be all indulgent erotic bliss — for a little while. ‘Simple Passion’ Review: An Ordinary Erotic Tale 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

A parody production of the bestselling erotic novel is heading to an off-Broadway theater in New York this week. ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Musical Heading to Off-Broadway 2013-01-08T16:30:29Z

A great part of the attraction is erotic, to see and hear stories about love and desire, and to watch beautiful people enact them. Perspective | What we loathe about intermissions 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

Violence against women is handled discreetly, but the men stomp, stab, shoot and bludgeon one another with showy abandon and an almost erotic intensity. Denzel Washington Exacts Vengeance in ‘The Equalizer’ 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

But let’s face it: The most over-the-top performances in “Magic Mike XXL” aren’t necessarily meant to be a literal reflection of our erotic desires. Women, stop apologizing for loving “Magic Mike XXL”: Our visual pleasure matters as much as any man’s 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

His agent had a suggestion: write a sitcom, vaguely based on his own life, about a man who trades the use of his disabled parking badge for erotic favours. Ben Lewin on The Sessions: 'You can reach women without brute force' 2013-01-03T19:00:00Z

In 2013, in an interview in The Financial Times, the novelist Jonathan Dee called it “a great literary novel but also the most erotic book ever written.” James Salter in The Times and Elsewhere 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

On the contrary, the radiance within is the engine, the erotic charge, that colors even the slightest interaction with the object of her love. Beholding Virginia Woolf Through the Women in Her Life 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

ALLENDE: It does not have to do with the erotic novel because my mom took so long to die that now I am too old to even remember eroticism! Isabel Allende talks about migration, life, aging and love 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z

I wanted them to be tasteful and erotic, and that was a journey, but we got there in the end. Then and Now: Two Interviews With Fifty Shades of Grey Author E.L. James 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

According to “The Siren” author Tiffany Reisz, erotic romance is a “way to show women acting like normal women in 2013.” “People are at their most vulnerable when they’re naked together”: The rise of erotic romance 2014-01-04T00:00:00Z

For the series, I mine an archive of ’70s-era erotic magazines with fetishistic images of black men photographed through the gaze of white photographers. Works for the Now, by Queer Artists of Color 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z

“Ex-Wife” depicted remarkable erotic freedom — “I think chastity, really, went out when birth control came in,” a more seasoned ex-wife named Lucia remarks — but abuse and violence is always lurking around the corner. She Wrote Frankly About Divorce, and Suffered the Consequences 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z

The idyll comes to an end when the male partner dies during an act of erotic asphyxiation, and the woman, refusing to relinquish her happiness, cuts off his penis as a keepsake. DVDs: ?Oshima?s Outlaw Sixties,? Films by Nagisa Oshima 2010-05-15T02:28:00Z

There is definitely something very special about Ovid's erotic poetry. Ovid's impotence shows why we can't let Pompeii fall 2010-12-13T13:35:00Z

The stories were first published online, and as word of mouth spread, droves of people - many of them not traditional readers of romantic or erotic fiction - began downloading them on iPads and Kindles. Hundreds flock to meet '50 Shades of Grey' author 2012-04-30T01:09:08Z

It was also his use of ballet technique to suggest states of extreme emotion and erotic desire. Kenneth MacMillan’s School of Ballet Sex, Neurosis and Grit 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

Going online to look for materials to stimulate the erotic imagination means running a high chance of being demoralized to the point where you just give up and decide to cook something instead. We need a war on bad sex — and the feminist pushback won’t be changed by James Deen controversy 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

It is erotic and disturbing, but what this has to do with Eliot’s unfinished verse drama is hard to say. Francis Bacon Read Just as He Painted: Deep, Dark and Bleak 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

It's not as if an individual's level of erotic maturity somehow varies in accordance to one's congressional district. Much ado about Mark Sanchez's teenage fling 2011-02-10T16:20:00Z

It implies that formal beauty is cold, lonely and sterile without the warming vitality of erotic urgency. Art Review: Georges Hugnet?s ?Spumifers? at Ubu Gallery - Review 2012-01-05T22:30:33Z

He gives fans all the lovely flowers, conditioned hair and lightly erotic, dreamy kisses they deserve. Movie Review: ‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2’ Ends the Series 2012-11-15T23:24:23Z

It was funny, strange, knowingly acted and — as ensemble comedy and because of that erotic choreography — enticingly physical. ‘The Idol’ Is Ending Sunday. Here’s Why That’s a Good Thing. 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z

With a man's name on the title page, the novels were an immense success in spite – or because – of the erotic character of Claudine's relations with her schoolmistress and her friends. Colette's libretto: a fantasy of childhood for Ravel's opera of enchantment 2012-07-27T21:49:01Z

Presenting from his “love nest” – “designed by clinically insane Swedish architects to encourage optimal lovemaking” – Bolton introduces a range of erotic acts. Funny, filthy and weird: Michael Bolton's move from power balladeer to comedy genius 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z

So are “entertaining,” “escape,” “gripping,” “juicy,” “sexy,” “sweeping” and in one turn of phrase I’d like to scour from my mind: “erotic newbie.” What exactly is a beach read anyway? Summery, sexy — or sexist? 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

But fantasies don’t, in fact, have to be erotic. I fall for strangers: I thought my fantasies made me writerly and special — it took decades to see how they were ruining my life 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

They do, and there’s a weightless sensation to the moment, which is more romantic than erotic because of its baptismal tinge. Issa Rae’s Breakthrough in “Insecure” Season 3, Episode 4 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z

Possibly, then, as women's capital in those other areas increases, their reliance on erotic capital should fall? Catherine Hakim: charm school marm 2011-08-19T22:01:41Z

Eve and Michael immediately commence a flirtatious, erotic duet. Music Review: A Karlheinz Stockhausen Work Has Its North American Premiere 2013-07-19T21:29:24Z

“Last Tango” was most famous then for its abundance of sex scenes—and for the ostensible erotic thrill of their elements of aggression and pain. Revisiting Bernardo Bertolucci’s Artistic Ambitions, and Abuses, in “Last Tango in Paris” 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

In June, she will release a book of erotic short stories that began as a poetry collection before she made the rare decision to heed a critic. Savages’ Jehnny Beth Is Going Solo. Don’t Tell Her It’s a Mistake. 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

While "Fifty Shades of Grey" is the best-known contemporary erotic novel, Day is a more prolific writer than E.L. Sylvia Day proves erotica's still got it with e-book bestseller debut 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

"Minx" is set in the 1970s and tells the story of an activist who becomes the editor of an erotic feminist magazine that includes nude male centerfolds. How prosthetic penises in shows like HBO’s "Minx" reinforce existing stereotypes and taboos 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z

I knew Freddy’s claw had to be its own character, an extension of evil, but I also wanted it to be mildly erotic. How we made A Nightmare on Elm Street 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z

Sexiness divorced of erotic feeling is nothing more than a manipulation of an image. Sheila Heti gets sex wrong 2012-09-28T23:30:00Z

Guthrie successfully mixes Steinbeck's narrative verve with D. H. Lawrence's openness to erotic exploration. ArtsBeat: With Johnny Depp's Help, Woody Guthrie Novel to Arrive in 2013 2012-07-09T19:56:17Z

His characters fulfill one fantasy after another — culinary, sartorial, erotic. Darren Star Finds Sex in Another City With ‘Emily in Paris’ 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z

As attentive as it is to form and detail, the image as a whole has a strange, incipiently erotic feeling. Art Review: ‘Gardening by the Book’ Celebrates Rare Botanical Volumes 2013-06-13T21:26:09Z

It addresses mass culture’s erotic fascination with celebrity death. Art In Review: ‘THE DOUBLE DIRTY DOZEN (& FRIENDS)’ 2012-09-06T20:05:12Z

“The body,” Birmingham emphasizes, “was central to Joyce’s work because he was a captive of both its erotic pleasures and its intense pains.” Joyce, ‘Ulysses’ and obscenity viewed in page-turner style

We can all agree that the imagery in “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” is oddly erotic. Review | In the impeachment spin wars, only the English majors can save us 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

But the other five tracks are poppy dance grooves with erotic lyrics. Robin Thicke, a Romantic, Has a Naughty Hit 2013-07-21T16:14:52Z

“She’s an advocate of understanding the difference between the erotic and the deep, caring commitment.” The Couples Therapy Expert Esther Perel Takes On Sex and Sexuality 2014-01-24T22:13:57Z

It has the structure of an erotic French comedy, echoing both Feydeau’s farces and Eric Rohmer’s cerebral films, translated into the camp, flip banter that is the lingua franca of its characters. London Theater Journal: Laughing Wall to Wall 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z

“There is no rational basis to provide access to erotic novels like these, and at the same time exclude contemporary fiction with similar content,” the letter said. ‘Fifty Shades of Grey,’ by E. L. James, in Demand at Libraries 2012-05-21T22:00:24Z

While the film certainly has erotic moments — there is a sensuous scene of bodies being massaged by multiple hands — as well as some hardcore activities, "Bloom Up" is more fascinating than titillating. Swinger film "Bloom Up" explores polyamory with a couple whose love is "really, really pure" 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z

I found the main character insufferable, the supposedly erotic bits a little boring, and I cringed at the portrayal of the woman who’s the object of his desire. Laila Lalami: By the Book 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

Loren Bouchard’s animated sitcom about the Belcher family and its meaty restaurant ends on Sunday night with an episode whose plot hinges on erotic fiction writing. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Merry Wives’ and George Carlin 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z

She even posed for erotic photographs taken by Harold Lloyd, the former silent comedian, who suggested she pursue an acting career. ArtsBeat: Tura Satana, Cult Actress, Dies 2011-02-07T02:23:34Z

At S Factor, a Los Angeles dance studio, celebrity instructor Sheila Kelley teaches pole and erotic dance for a greater purpose. From badass Peter Dinklage to the thriller "Behind Her Eyes," here's what new on Netflix in February 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z

She is widely credited with helping turn the erotic pinup — long a murky enterprise in every sense of the word — into high photographic art. Bunny Yeager, Photographer of Bettie Page, Dies at 85 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z

Dee insists that she is in charge of her erotic games. Women Without Options and Spoiled for Choice 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z

New York Times theater critic Ben Brantley called the Coward revival “scintillating” and praised the director and actors for bestowing a modern erotic bite to a farce from the early 1930s. Howard Davies, acclaimed director on London and New York stages, dies at 71 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

I think that this will be a very amusing film – very erotic but very funny also. Lars von Trier to offer softcore and hardcore versions of Nymphomaniac 2011-08-02T12:43:30Z

These "soldiers of the erotic army," as one speaker describes them, remain toplessly enigmatic, creating a fantasy on stage, then disappearing, quietly, into the night. 'Crazy Horse': an enticing behind-the-scenes look at Paris cabaret 2012-02-09T21:57:07Z

Oil heightened the body’s erotic charge, and encouraged male same-sex desire and pederasty, first in Sparta, then throughout the Greek world.” Books of The Times: ?Extra Virginity? by Tom Mueller; a Word on Olive Oil - Review 2011-12-07T21:50:14Z

But many, if not most, also enjoyed the treasures of the country they had come to exploit, not least the sexual availability and erotic allure of its women. Family Secrets: Living With Shame from the Victorians to the Present Day by Deborah Cohen – review 2013-01-26T15:00:01Z

The nice thing about erotic literature is that while imaginary Christians can whip imaginary Anastasias into submission in readers' minds, no real exploited or exploitable bodies are required to create this fiction. Fifty Shades of Grey is no one-handed erotic read for me but … 2012-05-29T11:17:33Z

She opened the show with “Marlene on the Wall,” in which a picture of Marlene Dietrich, wearing a “mocking smile,” becomes a personally iconic vision of a woman in charge of her own erotic life. 2010-01-30T05:31:00Z

Netflix's bloody and erotic psychological thriller "You" has always been a story about one man's obsessive need to, well, obsess about The One. On "You," polyamory done right could have saved a doomed marriage 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

If there is a metaphor about corruption within India’s ruling classes, it is hopelessly lost in erotic gauze. | 'Sahib Biwi Aur Gangster': ?Sahib Biwi Aur Gangster,? Directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia ? Review 2011-10-02T21:28:22Z

There’s a lot of erotic tension in the piece, which tells a wordless story that not only informs the talk but turns us on, too. Daring to Be Unlikable 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

Once an erotic thriller such as Fatal Attraction or a musical drama such as Footloose might have reasonably been considered a blockbuster. Blockbusters assemble: can the mega movie survive the digital era? 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

Other Grove books included "The Autobiography of Malcolm X," the anonymous erotic classic "The Story of O" and Che Guevara's "The Bolivian Diary." First Amendment crusader Barney Rosset dies 2012-02-22T17:03:09Z

But before that rude surprise, visions of the divine make her hands quake with an erotic rapture that’s nearly frightening. ‘Tejas Luminous,’ Featuring Malini Srinivasan 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z

That was a major touchstone for me, though the particular erotics of it weren’t especially relevant to my own life. ‘The Boys in the Band’ and a Generational Divide 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

Anna Boatman, an editor at Mills & Boon, leads an erotic writing workshop. Learn to write erotica – centaur sex anyone? 2012-12-09T20:00:06Z

The erotic ballet happens to be a ghost story, and a particularly nasty, quintessentially Hungarian one. Gustavo Dudamel's inner Hungarian returns 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

It really isn’t about the toy; it’s more about letting go and connecting your erotic imagination to your body. Experience: I am a professional sex toy tester 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

He takes her for a trip in his private helicopter, first applying seat belts like airborne erotic restraints, and somersaulting in a glider. Review: 'Fifty Shades of Grey': Where's the Wicked Whiplash? 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

This in no way blunts the erotic force of the dances. Nrityagram: Under My Skin 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z

She says she bought it two years ago – before Fifty Shades of Grey made erotic fiction mainstream – but its 600 pages have taken Anne Milano Appel until now to translate. The Art of Joy: one woman's sexual adventures 2013-06-28T14:33:00Z

The whole thing plays out like a slightly more expensive, but much less erotic, feature-length episode of the Red Shoe Diaries, thanks in no small part to Jagger’s omnipresent narration. Rolling back: why we should welcome Mick Jagger's big screen return 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

And then there is the erotic element, Scott's hint that "behind the facade of pots and pans there is sometimes another image … a private one … sensed rather than seen". William Scott, the painter who made the everyday into a masterpiece 2013-03-02T08:00:10Z

Last year, erotic retailer Adam and Eve asked over 1,000 American adults about the number of sex toys they own. For the love of artificial hymens: 10 of the weirdest sex toys for women 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z

Its ominous, erotic subtext refers obliquely to the epidemic and the fear of infection, but in a spirit of sexual defiance. ‘Test,’ Set in the Year H.I.V. Screening Arrived 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

"Threesome stories are becoming more popular, and erotic non-fiction is coming through now." Learn to write erotica – centaur sex anyone? 2012-12-09T20:00:06Z

Despite declarations of love the couple’s bond seems more erotic than emotional. Movie Review: ‘28 Hotel Rooms,’ by Matt Ross, With Marin Ireland 2012-11-16T01:40:55Z

It’s tender, erotic, awkward, poignant and unarguably, unavoidably, unmistakably gay. Call me by the wrong name: how studios are still trying to straight-wash gay films 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

Gentle homage to the tawdry, garishly effective original — one of the primary reasons no one calls their productions “erotic thrillers” anymore — is the rule. ‘Fatal Attraction’ Review: Here’s Why She Did It 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

“We asked: ‘what is the most erotic part of the body?’” she said. Cate Blanchett reveals 'many' past relationships with women 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

The erotic plagues the industry for some of the same reasons that massage is a good cover for sex work: The intimacy of nakedness and the sensuality of healing touch. Massage therapists rubbed wrong by sex talk 2012-05-22T15:15:00Z

Do the English perform the erotic acts gracefully? Cheers for Frears 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z

Long-distance relationships are never easy, and for military couples the absences can significantly affect their erotic connection. My sex drive has increased – but my husband won’t have sex more than once a week 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

But the president punted to wife Michelle when he was asked about the erotic fiction book "Fifty Shades of Grey." Obama keeps up with Kardashians, Avengers, more 2012-05-15T16:31:10Z

The nude, or almost nude, female form is the cycle’s repeated motif, the erotic emblem, as bright as a light beam, you can spot from wherever you stand. Can We Ever Look at Titian’s Paintings the Same Way Again? 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

In fourth place was the only non-sequel to make the list: Fifty Shades of Grey, which of course is still a widely known format as it’s based on the bestselling erotic novels. Here is the Most Anticipated Film of 2015 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

This “urbane” Satan was largely a function of growing secularization and new strategies for organizing erotic and social life within the so-called sexual revolution. Sex at the Satan Club 2014-03-08T00:00:00Z

This time, Dawson fills her dramatic and erotic potential as a woman of intelligence and strength. Danny Boyle’s Trance: You Are Getting Very Creepy 2013-04-05T18:53:54Z

Perhaps most contentiously for UK audiences, apparently pubescent girls are occasionally deployed in overtly erotic poses. This week's new exhibitions 2012-02-11T00:05:00Z

Think of embracing your partner as you pass by and inhaling their scent, rather than cuddling – which, says the sex therapist Stephen Snyder, “depletes erotic energy”. Not tonight, darling: how the world lost its libido – and how it can get it back 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

Yet, there is a trope, particularly in pornography, that seeks to present the dynamic between female siblings as erotic, or at the very least flirtatious. From the Hadids to the Kardashians: the awkward truth about ‘sexy sisters’ 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

Conceived as a response to “New York in 1979,” an erotic anatomy of the city by Ms. Acker, this production presents Minsk as a place where sex is a thwarted, warping force. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Imagination From Despair in Ednburgh and Minsk 2012-06-18T19:49:07Z

“Unforgettable” also makes some clever updates to the erotic thriller mold. Where have all the erotic thrillers gone? 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

In July, for example, QCode introduced “Dirty Diana,” an erotic drama starring Demi Moore; by September, Amazon made a deal to turn it into a TV series. Podcasting Is Booming. Will Hollywood Help or Hurt Its Future? 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

As fun as the killing seems to be for the guests, it’s the erotic element that really gets them going. Rewatching robo-sex: what can be learned from previous Westworlds 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

I have to wonder why a world-renowned newspaper would devote an entire section to reviews of erotic books and feature pornographic sketches on the cover. Letters to the Editor 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

Clearly, she'd cooked up a dark motive, whereby my husband was ditching me for someone with superior erotic capital, and I'd tracked her down with the direct purpose of disagreeing with her. Catherine Hakim: charm school marm 2011-08-19T22:01:41Z

“I was addicted to erotic cinema,” he says. Director Gaspar Noé on his 3D sex film, Love: ‘All governments like controlling people’s sexuality’ 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

Do you remember the musical number in the 1979 Bob Fosse movie “All That Jazz,” in which lithe dancers in leotards rehearse an erotic airline commercial? Review: ‘The Grand Paradise’ Summons a ’70s Pleasure Palace 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z

"There is, below the surface of every conversation in which intimacies are shared, an erotic current," Popkey writes in one telling passage. 7 must-read novels to kick off 2020 right 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

As with the cabaret era of the 1920s and early 1930s, Berlin of the 1980s was a clearinghouse for erotic self-expression and liberation, as well as a refuge for escaping West Germany’s mandatory conscription. ‘Citizens’ Museum’ of Frankfurt Celebrates 200 Years 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

All of us—male and female—envision all manner of erotic encounters without them acting out. On a Shockingly Casual Case of Sexual Assault 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

That film conveyed a more explicit version of the same tug of war driving “Abuse of Weakness,” in which the director subtly uses an actor’s erotic power against him. ‘Abuse of Weakness’ Stars Isabelle Huppert and Kool Shen 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

Basically, it’s a community for 3-D artists that specializes in erotic art. So, goblin porn exists 2012-10-26T00:00:00Z

James, the author of the erotic novel on which the movie is based. 'Fifty Shades' Director Won't Do the Sequels 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

Does this principled vampire resist the demon’s attempts to make him endure her erotic torments through all eternity? Johnny Depp in Tim Burton's Dark Shadows: Death Warmed Over 2012-05-10T10:45:28Z

Recently I looked again, in Tate Modern, at his luxuriantly erotic Nude, Green Leaves and Bust, painted in 1932. Why Picasso is the apex of art 2013-02-06T15:02:00Z

James' erotic novel is on track to pull in an estimated $90.7 million through the Monday holiday in the U.S. and Canada. 'Fifty Shades of Grey' sets record at box office 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z

The best erotic thrillers often have not only calculating, glamorous female protagonists but also the guiding hand of an auteur. Where have all the erotic thrillers gone? 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

Motifs sing out: comedy cactus-men and suggestive vegetation stand erect, adding to the undercurrent of frenzy and erotic menace; skulls – those timeless reminders that life is short – are another favourite. Artist of the week 148: Ryan Mosley 2011-07-28T11:11:44Z

The erotic film “is the only dream I have clear in my mind now,” Mr. Noé said. Film: Turn on, Tune in to a Trippy Afterlife 2010-09-19T04:36:00Z

“There is more erotic heat generated by the play’s two central characters,” Ben Brantley wrote in The New York Times, “than in any production in town.” A Word With: Hilda Cronje and Bongile Mantsai: The ‘Mies Julie’ Stars, Hilda Cronje and Bongile Mantsai 2012-11-26T23:05:04Z

So are several discreetly erotic mythological drawings he gave as Valentines to Cavalieri who, whatever the sexual nature of their bond, became a lifelong friend. Michelangelo Is the Divine Star of the Must-See Show of the Season 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

It was a grownup, writerly conversation, with a few four-letter words thrown in and a brief detour into the latest phenomenon, EL James' erotic "Fifty Shades of Gray." Fans stand and cheer for author J.K. Rowling 2012-10-17T07:16:04Z

So it is somewhat surprising that Ofcom has come to this erotic equilibrium. Sex on television: what is the right amount? 2013-05-08T12:07:58Z

Ms. Celis noted that the Freud was less erotic than the Modigliani, “almost contemplative” by comparison. With $170.4 Million Sale at Auction, Modigliani Work Joins Rarefied Nine-Figure Club 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

He eliminated a long-accepted filter between his various art forms and reality, letting the nation’s tarnished soul shine through in all its cheap, materialistic, radiant, often violent, implicitly erotic glory. Art Review: ‘Regarding Warhol’ at the Metropolitan Museum 2012-09-13T21:37:57Z

The interactions of the artists are a little vaudeville, a little Dada, a little erotic — sometimes synchronized, sometimes off-kilter. Review: ‘Ipsa Dixit’ Makes an Unlikely Opera Out of Aristotle 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z

Below the picture of Patricia sprawling naked on her consulting room sofa, she writes: "It isn't easy to find a universally causal explanation for erotic transference." Philippa Perry: Couch fiction 2010-04-17T23:07:00Z

She’s a woman with an active erotic life, and multiple lovers, men and women, come to her apartment for a night. ‘The Book of Delights’ Review: A Heady Romance 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

Does The Boy Next Door fit into a tradition of erotic thrillers, like Fatal Attraction? 'The Boy Next Door' Star Ryan Guzman: You're supposed to laugh at my movie 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

See how she projected herself into Bogart’s and the moviegoers’ erotic dreams? How Lauren Bacall Got to Dine with President Clinton at a TIME Gala 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

But the pictures went beyond gritty naturalism to incorporate aspects of the sacred and the erotic. Pasolini’s Legacy: A Sprawl of Brutality 2012-12-26T23:04:57Z

In the 12th century she becomes an unobtainable courtly lady, someone to whom a troubadour might address his sublimated erotic longings without fear of seeming fresh. Kathryn Hughes: rereading Alone of All Her Sex by Marina Warner 2013-03-23T07:00:15Z

Well, sometimes I wonder if those passages do not lure a certain type of reader, who is morbidly attracted by what he thinks are erotic images, into reading at least half of the novel. Review | Nabokov unplugged: A new collection of his essays delivers unvarnished opinions 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

No one is concerned if a poet’s own erotic résumé doesn’t include the mild bondage that spices up his 20 lines in Tin House. What Does a Poet Know About War? 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

Reviews of his erotic, heavy-hearted and metaphysical novels commanded the front pages of books sections, as did his occasional interviews. In Milan Kundera’s Work, the Erotic Meets the Subversive 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z

Lane's translation of the Nights, while certainly scholarly, had been excessively prudish, as Lane excised stories and incidents with erotic content. The Arabian Nights: a thousand and one illustrations 2011-03-12T00:06:32Z

However, Shiu's movie is still a pioneering attempt at using new 3-D technology in theatrical releases of erotic films, given that the market in the West is now largely dominated by DVD releases. 3-D erotic comedy shakes up Hong Kong box office 2011-04-20T09:46:04Z

What is less clear is whether, in waxing rhapsodically about food, Broder intends to draw us into Rachel’s edible/erotic fantasies or to repel us. A Novel of Sex, Faith and Lots of Yogurt 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z

In his review of that show for The New York Times, Ken Johnson wrote that Ms. Catlett “gives wood and stone a melting, almost erotic luminosity.” Elizabeth Catlett, Sculptor With Eye on Social Issues, Dies at 96 2012-04-04T02:45:28Z

Then suddenly we’re back in the story, which is suffused by erotic longing. Dance Review: Ramya Ramnarayan at Ailey Citigroup Theater 2012-06-11T21:36:36Z

That’s just the beginning of a complex scheme that allows the director to deploy his trademark split screens and double identities but, oddly, without the erotic tension in the heterosexual and lesbiastic couplings. Postcards from the Festivals: Seven Films at Toronto and Venice 2012-09-15T12:00:50Z

It became a pop culture phenomenon, making erotic literature mainstream, and spawned a film franchise for Universal Pictures. Kinky 'Fifty Shades' stokes fantasy, not reality, says author 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z

But that hasn’t stopped her from suing British erotic toy company Lovehoney, the parent company of the store where she bought the product, and “Fifty Shades” author E.L. Woman sues “Fifty Shades of Grey” author over ineffective lubricant 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

With a similarly subtle plot charged with erotic energy, Greenwell provides a richer experience, and his constantly burrowing sentences are polished to a deep luster. ‘What Belongs to You’ review: An eloquent tale of desire and remorse 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

The following year's handmade book "The Temptation of St. Anthony Is Mirrors" frankly elaborated the erotic theme. Minor White snaps into focus again in Getty Museum show 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

“I thought that the effort required,” he continued, “to create erotic fantasies is interesting.” Looking at Frederick Wiseman?s Documentary ?Crazy Horse? 2012-01-13T17:45:25Z

Mr. Cantet, while aware of the ugly economic and social realities of sex tourism, does not entirely dispel the aura of romantic, erotic allure that Mr. Seidl so effectively shatters. Movie Review: ‘Paradise: Love,’ First in a Trilogy Directed by Ulrich Seidl 2013-04-25T23:55:47Z

There’s a larger Swiss showcase of drawings by the Symbolist painter Ferdinand Hodler, whose rhythmic, hieratic nudes boil down modern life into dreamlike erotic rituals. Blaise Cendrars at the Morgan: A Modern Match of Poetry and Painting 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z

Being deprived of the capacity to make decisions about sexual acts and needs can be highly erotic as a concept or a pose. Sheila Heti gets sex wrong 2012-09-28T23:30:00Z

The erotic scenes are dialectical as well as hot; the meetings have a wanton, feverish energy. Review: ‘BPM (Beats Per Minute)’ Captures the Fierce AIDS Fight 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

It aligned them with the “hussies” and “fallen women” who refused to let men’s definitions of a “good” or a “bad” woman, or of lawful and shameful desire, cheat them of an erotic life. Doll’s Play 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Bostridge showed impeccable understanding of its subtle fluctuations between erotic reverie and nightmare. Britten Sinfonia/Bostridge – review 2013-05-06T16:12:25Z

When Plath found a sheaf of erotic poems Hughes had written to Wevill, she registered the intense pain to her psychiatrist, but then she did something unexpected: She praised the poems for their proficiency. In New Volume of Sylvia Plath’s Letters, a Marriage Falters and Masks Fall Away 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

You would expect me, therefore, to chose the scene I find most erotic from the pages of De Sade or Bataille. Best literary sex scenes: writers' favourites 2012-07-06T21:55:26Z

It was full of erotic symbolism, and in some small measure, this carousel explains why these effete nobles ended up soon afterward confronting another novel mechanical contraption: the guillotine. An 18th-century Parisian garden of delight can teach us much about what not to do today 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z

That includes, of course, “reading their literature” and “watching their erotic adventures on DVD.” “If there are any homosexuals nearby, God cannot hear your prayers”: Conan O’Brien absolutely destroys anti-gay Indiana law 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

Lesser examines the detectives’ domestic realms — their erotic lives and marriages, their kids and churches and holidays — finding some differences but a remarkably consistent sense of reasonableness and community. What Decades of Reading Scandinavian Crime Fiction Can Teach You 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

A particularly funny scene depicts an erotic fetish called motorboating. ‘The Foxy Merkins,’ a Satirical Buddy Comedy 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

But it is not inherently more wonderful than the other erotic portraits Picasso painted in the same period. Was Picasso's Nude, Green Leaves and Bust really worth ?66m? 2011-03-28T13:14:12Z

“Deep Water,” alas, proved neither erotic nor thrilling. When the Master of the Erotic Thriller Fails to Thrill 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z

These directors make sure they only work with people who want to perform in erotic films, and that what you see is real pleasure. Porn made for women, by women 2011-03-22T09:00:00Z

Ms. Armitage has long played with an erotic collision of ballet and modern. Dance Review: Big Bang Theory From Armitage Gone! Dance 2010-06-04T23:00:00Z

The film was banned for four months in 1947 by the National Legion of Decency, a Catholic group, for its erotic themes. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Sam Now’ and ‘Jeopardy! Masters’ 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z

But then Safron pointed out an alternate, and even complimentary, view — that it’s a case of male erotic power not being taken seriously. Male strippers: Please, just leave it on 2012-06-29T00:00:00Z

Cleverly theatrical, the movie is a backstage tale of erotic revenge in which a cuckolded dramatist stage-manages his rival’s comeuppance. Louis Valray Made Only 2 Movies. But Both Are Incredible. 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z

At first you think they are beautiful, candies; they have a sensual, carnal, erotic side. Special Report: Contemporary Art: A French Artist's Solitary Path 2011-10-13T11:00:14Z

But now, Tina is 13 and obsessed with boys, butts and her growing collection of “erotic friend fiction.” Why the "failed Thanksgiving dinner" is actually the best sitcom trope 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z

“Some of the most overtly erotic texts become sacred, devotional pieces,” Mr. Agnew said. Monteverdi Set Human Emotion to Music 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

And she's the Carmen of our collective fantasy — an exotic, erotic Spanish gypsy with a rose in her teeth, a lace mantilla draped over her hair, a dangerous carnal gleam in her flashing eyes. 'Carmen': Quite a woman at Seattle Opera 2011-10-05T22:47:04Z

Lee began his career as a model before starring in a number of hit Korean films, including the erotic thriller “The Housemaid” and the gangster drama “Deliver Us From Evil.” Emmys 2022: Lee Jung-jae Would Stay in the ‘Squid Game’ Contest 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z

It blends a joyful erotic sketch with documentary sequences, largely of elderly people in dire straits, which Varda filmed in the Rue Mouffetard, which was then a poor neighborhood. Agnes Varda’s Radically Personal Films 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

Over at the Arches on Tuesday and Wednesday, Alan Bissett writes and performs his monologue, The Red Hourglass, described as an "erotic allegory". What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2012-11-09T16:10:44Z

The erotic tussle in is mild in comparison with the Winterbottom film or the earlier Mackenzies; it’s just a mostly clothed frolic in the shower for Adam and Morello. Tonight You're Mine: A Ball-and-Chain, Rock-'n'-Roll Romance 2012-05-10T15:39:58Z

James' erotic novel, joined the ranks of films that plunged after big openings. 'Fifty Shades of Grey' sinks 73% in 2nd weekend, still tops box office 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

Given Mr. Bonello’s distinctive recurring obsessions — the mysteries of the body and the mind, the power of the aesthetic and erotic imagination — chances are it will be a brain film as well. Bertrand Bonello?s ?House of Pleasures,? Set in Brothel 2011-11-20T01:53:02Z

Through it all, Pearl grapples with stifling social and domestic expectations and with her irrepressible hunger for freedom, fame and erotic release. ‘Pearl’ Review: A Farmer’s Daughter Moves Up the Food Chain 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

The erotic drama “Showgirls,” which was rated NC-17, became such a punch line in 1995 that studios overwhelmingly swore off the genre. ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Leads Weekend Box Office, Stirring Reflection on Sex Films 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z

Chopin’s novel of awakenings and unapologetic erotic trespass is in full swing. The Classic Novel That Saw Pleasure as a Path to Freedom 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

Mr. Schoenaerts’s dour André may make conceptual sense, but he leaves a hole in this handsomely mounted costume drama that would have profited from more intrigue and a steamier erotic atmosphere. Review: In ‘A Little Chaos,’ a Guileless Kate Winslet Offsets a Lavish Versailles 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

The fall of Soviet communism was a disaster for Istvan: Overnight, he lost the “erotic attraction” of being — or presenting himself as — the rebel-intellectual in exile. For Ideologues in Silicon Valley, Everything Is Just Right 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

But being alone isn’t the aim of a good romance novel, so it doesn’t hurt sales that uncovering the erotic potential of the cowboy hero is Miller’s forte. Galley Girl: Linda Lael Miller and the Rise of the Cowboy Romance Novel 2011-12-02T18:30:19Z

It's all about erotic tension of the body, and the physical effort is connected to testing one's limits. "Slalom" director on pushing limits & the abuse of a skier by her coach: "This film is about bodies" 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z

Other actors have complained about his increasingly aggressive, erotic behavior, but the director puts them all off, claiming that “they’re watching male adolescence happen! In real time! On stage!” Francine Prose’s ‘Mister Monkey’ takes on the bananas world of children’s theater 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

Though some of the advice is comic embellishment – beware of how predictive text can sabotage an erotic message exchange – her aim is clearly for the audience to take something useful away from the show. Edinburgh comedy notebook: spoof self-help gurus have pulling power 2011-08-19T13:55:04Z

The choreography lavishly evokes the blending of the spiritual and erotic in Odissi dance, as the two women simultaneously convey the heft and magnificence of Shiva, the colour, wit and sensuality of Shivah. Nrityagram Dance Ensemble ? review 2011-08-29T17:20:01Z

“Fair Play” is a superbly malevolent erotic thriller about two ambitious financial analysts who drink too much, sleep too little and cannot afford to bring their feelings to work. ‘Fair Play’ Review: Risky Bonds 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z

Mr. Burden’s Dionysus is merely an enabler, watching while some buff dancers engage the king in erotic gyrations and hoist him on their shoulders. Opera Review: ‘King Roger,’ With Mariusz Kwiecien, at Santa Fe Opera 2012-07-27T21:24:17Z

Now, here’s my obligatory admission that some women do find male stripping erotic. Male strippers: Please, just leave it on 2012-06-29T00:00:00Z

The Hotel La Fonda on the town plaza displays nine 1920s erotic paintings by Lawrence. Delicate Chinese Albums for Wealthy Show-Offs 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

More overtly erotic than Dorothy, and way cannier, Lorelei doesn’t give anything away. Megan Does Marilyn: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Is Her Smash 2012-05-13T17:01:06Z

The options on offer include a punnily titled erotic thriller based on the sexcapades of Warren G. Harding and “James Buchanan: Mars Patrol.” Benjamin Walker, Sexypants Vampire Hunter 2012-06-17T06:13:01Z

These activities were both erotic and not; for the most part, they looked like work. 'Dawn,' by Adrienn Hod and her Budapest-Based Company 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

She is lusciously embodied by Ms. Varma as an artificial erotic construct, who crosses and uncrosses her legs in beguiling and threatening ways that foreshadow the Sphinx wife of “The Homecoming.” ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: The Empire Crumbles 2013-06-28T17:06:22Z

Do this with erotic playfulness, rather than as a chore to correct a problem. Does my boyfriend’s masturbation style prevent him orgasming during sex? 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z

She responded viscerally to the erotic energy of Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Last Tango in Paris” and the violent pathos of Arthur Penn’s “Bonnie and Clyde,” a movie she single-handedly rescued from a critical mauling. ‘What She Said’ Review: Pauline Kael, Screen Queen 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

He added: “The erotic scene is the focus where all the themes of the story converge and where the deepest secrets are located.” In Milan Kundera’s Work, the Erotic Meets the Subversive 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z

He was a cook, whose fingers were covered in scars from knives and ovens, purple half moons I found as erotic as other people must find tattoos. Never show them your back 2012-11-24T01:00:00Z

Self-portraits and erotic scenes, all drawn with Mr Clemente’s typical expressionist verve, merge with forms taken from mythology, mystical texts and vintage illustrations. Gigantism 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

Disastrously, her dormant maternal feelings — mingling with erotic longings — are awakened by her tenant’s teenage son. The Unsentimental, Darkly Elegant Stories of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

So instead of exploitation, he produced his first mature love story: erotic, ardent and painful. Sexpionage! Why filmmakers can't resist a honeytrap 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

Their terrible secret festers and itches, and the erotic tension escalates. Gilda ? review 2011-07-21T21:09:00Z

But before they go, other dancers cling onto them, sometimes as if for dear life, sometimes with an intimacy that can seem erotic. Merce Cunningham’s Multifaceted Mirror, Held Up to Nature 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

One example is the omnipresent Western notion of the Middle Eastern woman as veiled, exotic, erotic, anonymous, suppressed and powerless, yet threatening. Art Review: Mideast Photography at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2013-12-26T22:22:28Z

This deprives the production of an erotic interest. 'Stage Kiss' elicits lots of giggles but not much emotion at Geffen Playhouse 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

“I was most worried about the scenes in the Red Room. I wanted them to be tasteful and erotic,” she says. How the Notorious Red Room Was Built in the Fifty Shades of Grey Movie 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

It’s been described as “extremely erotic and perverted”. Dead certs to dark horses: 20 films we think will be at Cannes in 2016 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

These are grizzly, erotic stories of macabre maniacs, elegantly translated by Romer. Best holiday reads 2013 2013-07-14T07:00:00Z

Around the same time, she contributed to the screenplay for Bernardo Bertolucci’s erotic drama Last Tango in Paris. Agnès Varda: ‘I am still alive, I am still curious. I am not a piece of rotting flesh’ 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

"I Don't Wanna Live Forever" will feature in the sequel to the "Fifty Shades of Grey" film, based on the hugely successful erotic trilogy by E.L. Taylor Swift, Zayn Malik surprise fans with 'Fifty Shades Darker' duet 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

Besides, these erotic complications inspired those moving poems about sex and desire and marriage and yearning to escape from work and sheer pleasure in being alive. Book review: ‘Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love,’ by James Booth

But in many respects — from its comically flat stylization to the emphasis on erotic drives and political oppression — it leaves no doubt of the identity of the man pulling the strings. Berlin Takes Film Fest, and Fringe, in Stride 2010-02-17T22:45:00Z

I am, as you indicate, no stranger as a novelist to the erotic furies. No Longer Writing, Philip Roth Still Has Plenty to Say 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z

For every page of chaste longing there would soon be a thousand pages of explicit fanfiction online Rather than focusing on abstinence, Twilight told readers that chastity is the most erotic choice you can make. Vampires, blood and chastity: how Twilight turned teens on | Eva Wiseman 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

Her take on a woman's erotic journey reminds us that not all womanly visions are delivered with 20/20 clarity. "Sex/Life": Netflix's best worst raunchy ride of this summer is 50 shades of oy vey 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z

Amélie’s solos feel static, and her erotic pas de deux with Pozzi is firmly in the genre of ballet sex — conspicuously artful sequences of splayed legs, arched backs and suggestive positions. Review: Premiere of Wheeldon’s ‘Strapless’ at the Royal Ballet 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

The dreamy, formally playful and disarmingly erotic pictures Woodman made — mostly of herself partly unclothed or naked — project a self surrendering unreservedly to the spirit of art. Art Review: ?Francesca Woodman? at Guggenheim Museum 2012-03-15T20:37:11Z

Others include the brightly colored, highly reflective balloon dogs, whose implicitly polymorphous shapes and apertures can be seen as endlessly erotic and far sexier than the hard-core blatancy on view here. Those Jeff Koons and Cicciolina ?Sex? Pictures Get Another Look 2010-10-13T14:40:00Z

Her erotic liveliness continued into her marriage with Cage, and she knew of his homoerotic inclinations. A new John Cage biography: plenty on the music, less revealing of the man 2010-12-02T00:58:00Z

His drawings, like Kuchar's, are as funny as they are erotic. Very well hung: the ICA's Keep Your Timber Limber exhibition 2013-06-19T06:30:03Z

Pay attention, by the way, to the subliminally erotic postures these two assume in different scenes. Theater Review: ‘Women of Will’ at the Gym at Judson Memorial Church 2013-02-03T23:10:30Z

In James's novel, the ghostly figures whose sexual histories have possibly involved the children may be a projection of the governess's own disturbed erotic fantasies. The Turn of the Screw - in links 2011-08-08T14:46:00Z

He’s the kind of man with whom any erotic encounter would involve amazingly profound conversation, great food and the total destruction of at least few pieces of furniture. Salon’s Sexiest Men of 2012 2012-11-14T13:22:00Z

Thus the painting contrasts erotic tension with perfect repose, leaving Mary and Jesus daringly marginal to the real drama of the scene. ‘Picturing Mary’: Filled with highlights but flawed in its omissions

His sweet, high voice was malleable, effective on a slow blues like “Sidewalks” or an erotic caper like “Might Not.” Review: The Weeknd Fills a Brooklyn Arena With Moody Gloom 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

This season saw a number of young designers self-importantly present the trends — transparency, punk, bold stripes — while making overloaded assertions about the modern woman — strong, erotic, super-feminine. Fashion Review: The Stage Is Big, and Lagerfeld Fills It 2010-10-05T22:56:00Z

Her story about him maps the modern tragedy of Afghanistan, and the Western part in it, and ends with an erotic union with a victim of that history. The female psyche is focus of 2 new Seattle shows 2013-06-06T20:39:46Z

She readily acknowledges there is an erotic component of the picture. Deana Lawson Reveals Hidden Grandeur in Her Uncanny Portraits 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

“It’s not ‘Fifty Shades’ erotic because it’s not ‘Fifty Shades.’ E. L. James, Author of ‘Fifty Shades’ Series, to Release New Novel 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

I’m all for novels that transport me somewhere surprising and fresh — and someplace erotic certainly counts. Review | The publisher of ‘Adèle’ asked me to endorse the book. I could not. 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

Venus in Fur David Ives’ two-character drama about a director auditioning an actress for a role in a new play based on a notorious 19th-century erotic novel. L.A. theater openings, Oct. 5-12: 'The Magic Flute' and more 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

Zawe Ashton as Salome, dancing to a ghetto blaster and voluptuously kissing the severed head, suggests an adolescent in the grip of fierce erotic imaginings. Salome 2010-06-24T23:24:00Z

Heat up your Saturday night with “The Handmaiden,” Park Chan-wook’s sumptuous erotic fantasy, set in 1930s Korea. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘The Handmaiden’ and Kristen Stewart on ‘Saturday Night Live’ 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z

The mesmerised Oskar, eager to be moulded, thinks he would accept this erotic creature whatever its gender. Let the Right One In – review 2013-06-09T17:49:02Z

The erotic tension is high as four men in neckties eye one another. Review: ‘Escher/Bacon/Rothko,’ a Dance Triptych From Zvi Gotheiner 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

The film, set in a militarized Prussian boarding school, is subversively erotic and unabashedly anti-authoritarian. Women in Revolt: Erotic Liberation on Film in 1930s Germany 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

Not when the Philharmonic performs Bernard Herrmann’s lush, ominous music for Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” as audiences watch that strange, hypnotizing study in erotic obsession. The Philharmonic’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z

As is to be expected when a crew of variously damaged individuals is assembled in a confined space for the purposes of theater, friendships, enmities, rivalries and erotic attractions bloom and fester. Review: Marin Ireland Brings Down the Halfway House in ‘Blue Ridge’ 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

It was the most beautiful and erotic dress. Charles James and Me 2014-04-23T23:10:18Z

A world where the struggle for status and the great erotic campaigns of early adulthood are pictured obliquely against an autumnal backdrop and a mood of poignant fade-out. Review | ‘The Tale of Genji’ is Japan’s most revered book, and likely the first novel ever. This exhibition takes us into its enigmatic world. 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z

The lingering bitterness in Mr. Scott’s hard, self-aware gaze as the curtain falls pushes a classic sex comedy to the edge of erotic tragedy. Hot Priests and Wayward Libidos Run Wild on London’s Stages 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z

Don’t be surprised to turn a corner and meet an erotic hangman figure flashing in hot-pink neon in the distance. 36 Hours in the Hudson Valley, New York 2013-07-26T15:18:39Z

Certainly the realm of the erotic would be far more limited and boring if we all adhered to a prescribed set of sexual guidelines. Rough sex can be empowering for women, too 2014-04-10T22:30:00Z

Personally, I preferred a highly erotic version of Venus and Adonis at London's Little Angel. Review 2010-10-05T23:41:00Z

But he hasn’t forgotten the erotic; the album’s best song, “Coffee,” happens to be about a blissful morning after. The Best Albums of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

A year later he took up with a man and clarified the erotic direction of his life. Why Mapplethorpe Still Matters 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

Does this mean there is no significance to erotic dreams? Should we take our sex dreams seriously? 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

David Potter, a classics professor at the University of Michigan, compares the current sexual fascination with Olympians to the erotic allure of Roman gladiators. Sexiest Olympics ever? 2012-07-29T01:00:00Z

Orwell despised the book because of what he viewed as its fascistic reverence for sexual power, but the movie substitutes something more topical and subversive in those unsettled postwar years: an erotic dream of democracy. DVDs: Thrills From British Vaults 2010-06-20T02:00:00Z

Nevertheless, Johnson said she remained proud of her work in Fifty Shades of Grey, the erotic romance that was panned by critics despite taking more than $500m worldwide in 2015. Dakota Johnson hits out at 'brutal' Hollywood over ageism 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z

Jamison was made to “close-read” a piece of erotic fiction in front of the assembled. Leslie Jamison’s Memoir Finds Its Footing in Sobriety 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z

The most erotic scene ... features Elle holding and fondling a power cord. "Flux Gourmet" is an absurdist adventure in pretentious performance art made from food sounds 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

“Pâquerette” is hardly erotic; it’s more about sexual politics and levels of sensation. Dance Review: Bodies Like Statues, Beginning to Move and Then Set Free 2010-10-11T21:57:00Z

FRANKFURT, Germany — Booming sales of the "Fifty Shades of Grey" erotic trilogy helped publisher Random House to a record year. 'Fifty Shades of Grey' boosts Random House sales 2013-03-26T12:56:49Z

What endures through the year are the erotic and artistic drives to dominate and to reshape: drives that play out, more than anywhere, on the surface of Marie-Thérèse’s body. Picasso in 1932: Ingenious, Exhausting, Relentless 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z

The remaining heroes of Hollywood’s erotic films look less like Dan defending his family and more like the sensitive strippers of “Magic Mike” defending their own tender hearts from breaking. When the Master of the Erotic Thriller Fails to Thrill 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z

Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy based on the classic erotic text, The Carnal Prayer Mat, promises to "leave audiences feeling like they are sitting right there at the edge of the bed". Close up: Coming to a cinema, near you 2011-04-07T16:37:48Z

Breaking out of gender stereotypes lent them a new power as performers and earners, but also made them objects of erotic fascination for men and women. Ladies as gents 2010-05-13T21:15:00Z

Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí turn homage into an erotic substitute for repressed desires. Cinematic smackers: the most significant kisses in film history 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

Instead, her erotic trilogy went on to sell more than 150 million copies worldwide, and was translated into roughly 50 languages, including Arabic and Mongolian. The Evolution of E L James 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

Within days, it seemed, girls’ English binders were plastered in photos of Leonardo DiCaprio from the film, with his perfectly curved forelock and glinting rave armor – a classroom-suitable image of nascent erotic desire. Romeo + Juliet at 20: how Baz Luhrmann's adaptation refuses to age 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

His developing interest in girls coexists with spectral male images, not quite erotic, not entirely innocent, that impose themselves on his thoughts. ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones,’ a Memoir by Charles M. Blow 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

Tony Blair was intensely starstruck by Bill Clinton and George W Bush and the erotic display of political power in the White House: the sleek limos, the motorcycle outriders, the press conferences. It's only natural that William Hague should be starstruck by Angelina Jolie 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

Her antagonist is time — so slow when she is trying to forget, so quick when she reflects on the simpler years with her husband and children, before the erotic disruption. Jamie Quatro’s First Novel Centers on Religious and Sexual Passion 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

Before leaving the subject, we should note that there seems to be a curious lack of erotic heat between Jimmy and Kim. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 2, Episode 7: The Clothes Make the Man 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

The soprano Elizabeth Atherton sings her roles with abandon: knowing and sarcastic as Woman; distant and lonely as Eurydice; a Kundry and a Salome compressed in a caldron of erotic enchantment as Medea. Review: Harrison Birtwistle’s ‘The Cure’ and ‘The Corridor,’ Myths With a Twist 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

Whether it's Tina's "erotic friend fiction" or family friend Chad's attraction to a mannequin, the Belchers take it all in stride. How "Bob's Burgers" and its loving queerness became a cult favorite among the LGBTQ community 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z

The Spanish guitar was at that time something quite exotic, with exciting, erotic and new repertoire being written for it. Vermeer and Music: recreating the music of his time 2013-06-26T11:49:00Z

Charlotte finds herself re-examining not only her responsibility as a parent but also her own, limited erotic history. Review: A Sex Crime Disarranges a Tidy World in ‘Something Clean’ 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, had any of us expected the Targaryen restoration to be so erotic? Winter Is Here: Remembering the Plot of “Game of Thrones” 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

Plus, there are about 160 deaths each year from erotic asphyxiation. 11 mistakes you don’t want to make under the mistletoe 2013-12-23T01:00:00Z

The show, which continues through Jan. 19, will include 125 paintings, drawings and sculptural pieces that follow the development of Schiele’s raw, skittery, often erotic style, which was punk long before punk. Neue Galerie Opens 'Egon Schiele: Portraits' 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

I found the sloganeering and "erotic" dancing a bit wearing as the show entered its fourth hour, but there are moments when Arcade deploys a comic poise to match the thundering self-assertion. Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore! – review 2012-07-04T17:07:34Z

While he snipped away, he would relate his latest erotic adventures or grouse about the capriciousness of women. Perspective | What is it about France? A book lover revisits his past and celebrates the present 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

The characters, while enacting quaint and seemingly wholesome courtship rituals, wrestle with darker erotic impulses and fears. 'Oklahoma!' sweeps audience back to prairie in lush show 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

Years later, in a radio interview, Bayley said his affections for his wife were “in the mind, rather than physically erotic.” Writer John Bayley, Iris Murdoch's widower, dies at 89 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

The scene in the shoot is naughty, with the phallic subway train, its blast of air, and Marilyn's erotic stance. Marilyn Monroe: proto-feminist? 2012-07-21T21:05:42Z

Many of the later works here are deeply erotic, though with a divine tinge. ‘Divine Pleasures’ Celebrates the Colors of Desire in Indian Paintings 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

Gay, whose first fictional erotic story was published in 2001, has argued publicly with many of Roiphe’s views, but on this issue the two agree. Perspective | For today’s feminist writers, sex makes a comeback 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z

Of all the directors, she's the only one who makes incredibly erotic sex scenes out of awkwardness. Kim Gordon's fresh start 2013-09-19T16:18:45Z

In 1973, he was able to move to California and live exclusively from sales of erotic pictures. The belated homecoming of Tom of Finland 2011-01-19T21:59:02Z

The bedside lamp burns a peachy, erotic glow all night as she works. Cultural Studies: The Sex Drive, Idling in Neutral 2011-04-15T22:03:59Z

It received an excellent performance from the silvery-voiced soprano Susanna Phillips, who captured the cycle’s varied moods, from erotic longing to dark comedy. Music Review: A Celebration of the Song Recital, and of the Potential of 4 Young Voices 2011-01-24T23:20:10Z

And, despite repeated images of bare flesh the work can feel erotic but chaste, the way Thomas Eakins’s paintings of adolescent boys at a swimming hole do. He Captured a Clandestine Gay Culture Amid the Derelict Piers 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

That question simply reflects the fact that it's hard to associate them with later, erotic images of the nude. Ice Age Art at the British Museum: 'Not even Da Vinci surpassed this' 2013-02-05T16:44:01Z

“You tend to dream of what’s more emotional to you. For that reason, you might expect there to be more erotic content than there actually is.” Should we take our sex dreams seriously? 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

They often develop the interest early in life and it is not always an erotic behaviour – sometimes it serves as a soothing mechanism. I have just discovered my brother secretly wears women’s underwear. What should I do? 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z

There’s an interesting aspect of erotic cruelty in Ms. Versace’s clothes, one associated with horror films and made explicit with the black and deep red tones. Fashion Review: Review of Couture Fashion Week: Raf Simons, Dior, Versace and More 2013-07-03T19:39:15Z

Drugs, booze, erotic asphyxiation: the trailer for the James McAvoy- starring adaptation of Filth is a to-do list of depravity. Populist: Items of interest this week 2013-04-20T04:59:01Z

Such an accepting attitude befits a work adapted from a book by Mr. Savage, a wry syndicated sex-advice columnist who provides a commonsensical approach to all things erotic. | 'The Kid': A Gay Couple Adopting, From New Group@Theater Row 2010-05-11T04:18:00Z

From the start, Weber’s vision of truth is sensuous, sensual, voluptuous, and chaste—both erotic and ethereal, an object of desire that’s also an emblem of higher, even holy aspirations. Lois Weber’s Vital Films of the Early Silent Era 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

What is your guiltiest pleasure?Light bondage and erotic spanking. Q&A: Pamela Stephenson Connolly 2012-11-09T22:59:00Z

Mr. Rattle conveyed the heady fervor of the music without turning the introduction into a tone poem of the erotic. Review: A Radiant Revival of ‘Der Rosenkavalier’ 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z

"Friends With Benefits" is often uproariously and profanely funny, and anchored in high-spirited performances from its central duo, who are well matched as comic foils if oddly lacking in erotic electricity. "Friends With Benefits": Justin and Mila in the other, other sex-pals movie 2011-07-22T18:05:00Z

Her performance here is a tour de force of encapsulated erotic passion, waiting, grief, shame and anger, and Tweeten’s cinematography makes the most of Ms. Mearns’s beauty and interiority. Ephrat Asherie, Frederick Ashton and a Solemn Memorial 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z

Among other things, “Fort Blossom revisited” showed how the erotic and the unerotic can coincide bewilderingly. Nakedness in Dance, Taken to Extremes 2012-08-16T12:00:00Z

Her appearance is frowsy, but the cut of her tops advertises erotic vitality, and the delusion in her eyes announces her ripeness as a mark. Patricia Arquette Succumbs to a Pipe Dream of Flight in “Escape at Dannemora” 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

“Grey” is a 559-page retelling of Ms. James’s blockbuster erotic novel “Fifty Shades of Grey,” this time from the perspective of the moody billionaire Christian Grey. ‘Fifty Shades’ Fan Fiction Assumes a Life of Its Own 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

And now EL James's erotic hit Fifty Shades of Grey has been nominated for a book award. Fifty Shades of Grey nominated for National Book award 2012-11-13T16:08:14Z

Her wild erotic dance to a loud mambo beat, intercut with scenes of her father’s fatal heart attack, is one of the great sequences of 1950s Hollywood melodrama. Dorothy Malone obituary 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z

Given this build-up, you might be forgiven for expecting that 's I Drink the Air Before Me was going to deliver some serious erotic and meteorological action. Stephen Petronio Company; Onegin ? review 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z

As important, it also blends beautifully with Ms. Erivo’s, and their climactic first-act duet becomes a tender, erotic intermingling of kindred spirits. How to Keep a Musical Great: Call Heather Headley and Marin Mazzie 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

Though “Villandry” goes on to suggest erotic complicity, it meanders and never acquires depth as drama or poetry. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater Returns to City Center - Review 2011-11-09T22:54:34Z

From the glimpses we've seen so far, it looks as though director Sam Taylor-Johnson's take on "Fifty Shades" will be somewhat toned down from the book, more erotic than explicit. 'Fifty Shades of Grey' trailer is more breathy than brazen 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z

Five rooms have been filled with work ranging from erotic paintings, profane text, film, sculptures and memorabilia that reveal Emin's most personal emotions and thoughts. Exhibitions: Tracey Emin's adults-only retrospective 2011-05-20T10:14:01Z

News of Taylor-Johnson's appointment came from the British author who became the publishing sensation of 2012 when her erotic trilogy sold more than 70 million copies worldwide. British artist Taylor-Johnson to direct '50 Shades' film 2013-06-20T14:43:05Z

To a throbbing beat, the dancers display their bodies in punctuated, side-by-side club moves before progressing into more erotic territory. Review: In ‘Age & Beauty,’ Miguel Gutierrez Ponders the Personal and the Professional 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z

There are millions of people – women, mostly – who want to read erotic fiction, and apparently many who want to write it. Learn to write erotica – centaur sex anyone? 2012-12-09T20:00:06Z

“And probably some excellent erotic fiction,” she says and laughs. OITNB's Jenji Kohan: 'I’d be far richer if I’d stayed on Friends' 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z

The best of the three, the fabulously erotic “Lady With an Ermine,” has not traveled from its home in Krakow, Poland. Review | Quiet, please. At the Louvre’s ‘Léonard de Vinci’ exhibition, you’re in the presence of genius. 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

Set in Korea in the 1930s, this amusingly slippery entertainment is an erotic fantasy about an heiress, her sadistic uncle, her devoted maid and the rake who’s trying to pull off a devilishly elaborate con. Review: ‘The Handmaiden’ Explores Confinement in Rich, Erotic Textures 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

But she shot to fame with Emmanuelle in 1974, an erotic story set in Bangkok about a bored housewife, her husband, and their many companions. "Emmanuelle" star Sylvia Kristel dies in Amsterdam 2012-10-18T15:01:37Z

“Ringaround Arosie” conveys all there is to say about the paradox of erotic abstraction and the way female artists imbue the idiom with a pulsating humanity. Two Artists’ Divergent Roads to Eros 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

Only you can gauge how imperative it is to you to physically explore your erotic dreams, but the answer needs to inform your choice of partner. I love my girlfriend, but I want to have a threesome | Dear Mariella 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z

A mid-19th-century miniature ivory tableau of a nude, smiling African woman linking arms with two European men was either a scene of erotic compliance or one of sexual coercion, depending on who was looking. Art Review: ?Through African Eyes? at the Detroit Institute of Arts 2010-04-15T22:09:00Z

Besides, what would a society look like in which everyone exploited their own erotic capital to its fullest advantage, while ties of affection, responsibility and – dare I say it? – love, were concomitantly downgraded? Honey Money: The Power of Erotic Capital by Catherine Hakim ? review 2011-08-19T09:00:02Z

So you hope for some erotic crackle between Katniss and her brace of swains. Review: To Shill a Mockingjay - Part 1 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z

Actress Dakota Johnson is about to hit the big time with her newest film Fifty Shades of Grey, based on the best-selling erotic novel by EL James, this Valentine’s Day. Dakota Johnson Says Fame Is 'Really Scary' 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

That Walter was the great passion of Picasso’s life is borne out by the erotic frisson that suffuses much of this exhibition. What?s Blooming Indoors 2011-04-21T22:57:20Z

“We frown on pornography and judge people for enjoying erotic fiction,” she added. How ‘365 Days’ Became One of Netflix’s Worst-Reviewed Big Hits 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

But Jenkins and Lion finished with four nominations apiece while Tom Ford’s erotic thriller landed three—despite the director’s minor wrist slap for plying voters with expensive bottles of his own line of perfume. Golden Globe Nominations Prove Personality Matters Just as Much as Prestige 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z

Mr. Panichgul’s opening number, a strapless dress in white silk duchess, followed the curves of some erotic birdcage, enhanced by a birdcage print. Fashion Review: Thakoon, The Row, Diane von Furstenberg, Carolina Herrera: Fashion Review 2012-09-11T00:14:35Z

Those words come from a book of a different color, quite literally: "Blue Skies, No Candy," Gael Greene's erotic novel. ArtsBeat: Gael Greene on the 'Fifty Shades' Bandwagon 2012-06-29T19:24:01Z

Then there's the story of Taylor and Burton's "erotic vagrancy". TV highlights 23/07/2013 2013-07-23T06:00:19Z

Strickland’s films whisper and rustle; their sonic landscapes induce an uneasy tickle on the back of the neck, a visceral drop in the pit of the stomach and, occasionally, the erotic sensation of goose bumps. Welcome to Peter Strickland’s Worlds 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z

It’s pretty much obligatory now, when talking about erotic fiction, to mention “Fifty Shades of Grey.” This isn’t “mommy porn” 2013-03-16T22:00:00Z

The play is savvy about the ways alliances and erotic affinities shift and bend when you throw a small group — especially a family group — into isolation. | 'Through a Glass Darkly': Under Pretty Skin, Madness Lurks 2011-06-07T02:06:38Z

As for all those invasive erotic images involving spreading and entering and penetrating, they’re fine by her as long as she can do the same to him. Review: ‘Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.’ Captures the Fury of Modern Womanhood 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

Years later, eggs took on more erotic meanings. Poached or painted: A closer look at how eggs became a complex motif in countless works of art 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z

The dancing, meanwhile, built much of its erotic charge through restraint. Dance Review: Sensual Spanish Accent Arrives by Way of Quebec 2011-05-01T21:00:29Z

Good erotic films are built on an atmosphere of tension. ‘99 Moons’ Review: On-Again, Off-Again 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z

"An actual woman's body is more exciting – more challenging and erotic – than the airbrushed pornified version ever could be." The Ministry of Thin by Emma Woolf – review 2013-06-01T14:45:03Z

“He told me I was not sexy but erotic,” said Söderbaum. The 'Nazi Marilyn Monroe': Goebbels had very nice eyes – but he was a devil! 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

Born in the seventh century BC, the Greek poet Sappho is known for her playful, erotic love poetry, which exists today only in fragments. Forget the Jane Austen romantic comedy: These authors would make way better rom-coms 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

Her wish for erotic transport settles on her boss, the enigmatic Peregrine Gibbons, who eventually invites her on a promising excursion to the country. A Novel of World War II Espionage With an Unlikely Heroine 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

Choreography can make efficient, and evocative, work of illustrating conflict and character in the same gesture, as Tislarm Bouie’s does in a few brief interludes, including an erotic duet between Jonah and Ruben. ‘The Bandaged Place’ Review: A Dance With His Devils 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z

"Love to Love You Baby," with its erotic moans, was her first hit and one of the most scandalous songs of the polyester-and-platform-heel era. Donna Summer, Queen of Disco, dies at 63 2012-05-17T17:08:08Z

Fennell’s seen the erotic thrillers, studied her Hitchcock and possibly read her Patricia Highsmith, and gets that if you name your main character Oliver Quick he’s obligated to do something at least arguably Dickensian. ‘Saltburn’ Review: A Promising Young Man Takes a Seedy Turn 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z

James' wildly popular erotic novel, which will steam up movie theaters this Valentine's Day weekend. 'Fifty Shades of Grey': Five things to expect from the erotic drama 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

Spears is chained to her proverbial bed throughout “Glory,” her most overtly erotic record to date. Britney’s path to “Glory”: The pop survivor’s least-personal album is also her best in more than a decade 2016-08-27T04:00:00Z

In 2008 it offered a peek at its secret archive of erotic art known as L’Enfer, or hell, that it had deemed “contrary to good morals.” Casanova at the National Library in France 2011-11-28T23:30:08Z

The mixing of religious and erotic is hard to miss. Art Review: ?Andy Warhol, The Last Decade? at Brooklyn Museum 2010-06-17T21:24:00Z

It was going well but my stream-of-consciousness kept on morphing into erotic imaginings and I kept thinking about what Phoebe and the waitress might get up to. Let’s have an open relationship, my girlfriend said … 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z

It was the least erotic sexual experience in my life! There's no shame in "A Sexplanation," a fun, honest documentary that steps in where sex ed left off 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

But the erotic nature of the ballet runs him afoul of local authorities, including agents in the Russian Federal Security Service, known for continuing the practices of the once dreaded K.G.B. ‘Kompromat’ Review: Escape From Siberia 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

All of this is erotic and exciting, which accounts for the huge popularity of tipping. Tipping breeds indentured servitude 2013-09-09T12:00:00Z

The subject is erotic desperation, and the lyrics are racy to the point of raunchiness. Review: ‘The Wild Party,’ With Sutton Foster as a Louche Jazz Baby 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

Audiences howl during his erotic scenes, cackle at his tears and toss spoons in the air to mock his cheap set decorations, purchased from a thrift-store window. Tommy Wiseau in ‘The Disaster Artist’ wants to be taken seriously. James Franco can relate. 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

“Each person has a different idea about what an erotic or a violent gesture might be,” Mr. Charmatz said, “so you get 25 variations on these ideas all happening together.” A French Choreographer Who Plays With the DNA of Dance 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z

I saw you put out a call for what readers want from erotic fiction. This isn’t “mommy porn” 2013-03-16T22:00:00Z

And even though she is a killer, she makes friends with a policewoman, with whom she hosts “intimate but fully erotic all-night sex feasts.” Books of The Times: ?1Q84? by Haruki Murakami - Review 2011-11-09T19:28:08Z

But the new British film “Weekend,” like its closest American predecessor “Before Sunrise,” lingers on the initial sparks of an erotic and emotional connection. Arts & Leisure: Andrew Haigh?s ?Weekend? Looks at a Gay Couple 2011-09-22T12:00:13Z

Take some time to explore your relationship and find out if an erotic connection is possible or not. I have never had satisfying sex with my husband. Should I just give up? 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

For him, the virtues are loyalty, decency, fellow-feeling, sincerity, not authenticity, erotic passion, self-fulfillment, achievement. Beyond Expectations: Rereading Dickens 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

Video of images by the Cuban artist Raul Speek provided a dizzying, kaleidoscopic background to the music: his style is vividly exotic, verging on erotic, and best when its fantastic realism becomes surreal. Afrodisiac ? review 2010-10-18T21:45:00Z

On Monday, E L James' multimillion selling erotic trilogy placed No. 4 on the American Library Association's annual study of "challenged books," works subject to complaints from parents, educators and other members of the public. 'Fifty Shades' makes list of challenged books 2013-04-15T04:26:08Z

It premiered at Cannes in May and was warmly received as one of the most erotic movies ever made. The most exciting films of 2017: returning auteurs 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

It felt real, all the more real because there was no erotic component. Transference? I’ll Take It 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

But, and this is Egan's more bracing point, neither are girls ever merely innocents who are – or should be – devoid of an erotic life. Sex, lies and teenage girls 2013-03-11T11:00:01Z

Is she really suggesting that sexual humiliation is erotic, that violence is the only way the different Italys can be reconciled? Ninety and out to shock: meet the first Oscar nominated female director 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

He scrutinizes his mother’s negligence and overt sexuality, and conflates his budding erotic desires as a teen with his yearning for maternal love and attention. ‘Medicine’ Review: One Dose Reality, Two Doses Absurdity 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z

The daughter of a bear-tamer, she went on to become an erotic dancer, and then used her charms to attract the attention of the city’s bigwigs. New histories of Istanbul 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

Moral watchdogs in the US have launched a furious attack on the debut trailer for much-hyped erotic romance Fifty Shades of Grey, arguing that the film normalises sexual violence. Fifty Shades of Grey trailer provokes attack from US moral watchdogs 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

Human beings are multifaceted and a wonderfully wicked erotic sensibility can lurk behind the most wholesome personality. Am I watching too much porn? 2011-07-21T20:00:08Z

So if the trilogy "functions as an erotic stimulus, on that level I think it's great." ArtsBeat: Erica Jong and Others Discuss What Women Really Want From 'Fifty Shades' 2012-07-26T20:35:32Z

Fifty Shades of Grey is now the best-selling book in British history The recent boom in sales of erotic fiction is "cannibalising" the rest of the UK book market, The Bookseller has said. Erotica boom affects genre sales 2012-08-22T15:52:08Z

There isn’t much more erotic imagination in “Allied” than there is imagination of any other sort. In “Allied,” Empty Nostalgia for American Heroes 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

There is grief, rage, hilarity, terror and erotic arousal, but emotion in Picasso is primitive; nuance was not his thing. Art Review: What the Peripatetic Picasso Kept in His Closets 2011-03-10T23:11:06Z

This, of course, includes two stuffed deer heads, which begin the show balanced on their necks, their throats stretched back as if in erotic abandon. Review: ‘Bambi______/Kaffeehaus’ Mixes Up an Absurdist Linguistic Orgy 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

Is this memory an erotic reverie meant to distract Naz from his solitary terror, or an unconscious answer to the question that Box that will ask him, point-blank: How did this happen? “The Night Of” recap: Naz goes into the belly of the beast 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z

While Hesse gave it a subtly surrealistic combination of industrial and erotic qualities, LeWitt favored a more purely abstract approach. Art Review: Uptown, a Jumble of Treasures 2011-04-22T03:31:19Z

Whether a person lives in passionate celibacy with another, or in a blaze of erotic desire with someone they find annoying, there are hundreds of flavours and mixtures of love. Women and sex: intimate adventurers 2011-07-06T07:00:00Z

The majority of erotic romance titles are written by women for women – and the authors are not necessarily what you might expect. Why we're putting the 'missing' sex scenes back into Charlotte Brontë 2012-07-17T14:30:04Z

When the stories are very intimate, even erotic, that can get touchy. Review | What does passion sound like? How five audiobook actors talk sexy. 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z

And the Swiss playwright Lukas Barfüss’s unsettling and surreal version of the closing scene, where the erotic carousel comes full circle, is similarly disorienting and cryptic. In Salzburg, New Lives for Two Scandalous Plays 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

What “We Wrote in Symbols” captures most strongly is the richness and depth of erotic writing in the Arabic literary tradition, and the incredible diversity and range of its female voices. Review | ‘We Wrote in Symbols’ is a groundbreaking collection of Arab women writing about love and lust 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

Or, in contrast, the erotic charge of the scene in The Grifters in which Annette Bening’s character runs naked down a corridor. Cinema trains lens on role of nude scene: artistic, erotic or gratuitous? 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z

Band members are quick to note the song's title isn't erotic but refers to a local Creole saying meaning "knock you down." AP Interview: Cover Drive gets boost from Rihanna 2011-08-19T14:54:13Z

“He found it to be an erotic experience,” Mr. Banderas said, as he closed his eyes and played piano fingers over his lips to imitate the flies. Antonio Banderas Doesn’t Think You’ll Remember Him. Not Yet. 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

"No Easy Day" was No. 1 on Amazon.com as of late Friday morning, displacing the million-selling erotic trilogy "Fifty Shades of Gray." McRaven tells troops to pipe down 2012-08-24T16:20:09Z

Among the sea of belongings were counterfeit paintings, erotic ephemera and thousands of antique coins. In Hong Kong, a New Exhibit Creates a ‘Space for People to Feel’ 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z

More generally, though, Lidén's compelling work is covert, containing an illicit, even erotic charge. Artist of the week 111: Klara Lid?n 2010-10-27T14:00:00Z

The sun appears as “a malignant pearl”; her father’s eyes resemble “unblinking black roses”; Lutherans “have a passion for banners that approaches the erotic.” Best memoirs to read this month 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

There are contemporary cowboys, historical cowboys, erotic cowboys and even paranormal cowboys. Galley Girl: Linda Lael Miller and the Rise of the Cowboy Romance Novel 2011-12-02T18:30:19Z

Rembrandt went out of his way to show the fat and folds of his nude models, yet found drawing them hugely erotic. Should you ever send nude pictures taken for an old lover to a new partner? 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

At the height of Fifty Shades mania, the erotic novels were estimated to be generating as much as $1.3 million per week for their author, EL James. Forbes richest authors list 2012: James Patterson takes the crown 2012-08-10T13:26:23Z

A beginning attraction may be erotic happenstance; its fulfillment in marriage can be predictable hell, and for Roth not once but twice. Cynthia Ozick Calls the New Philip Roth Biography a ‘Narrative Masterwork’ 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

His next project, he says, is an "erotic love movie". Gaspar No?: 'What's the problem?' 2010-09-16T21:29:00Z

It’s rare now that an erotic film gets people talking — zeitgeisty onscreen sex and twisted relationship dynamics have largely migrated to television shows like “You” and “Euphoria.” When the Master of the Erotic Thriller Fails to Thrill 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z

Couples under pressure to conceive not only risk conception failure, but the loss of their erotic connection as well. My partner and I are trying to conceive – but he's struggling with his sex drive 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z

Also, they spin, which is played here as a frankly erotic activity. Review: In ‘Spindle Shuttle Needle,’ History With Strings Attached 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z

Observe how Ms. Lynch’s Runt withdraws in betrayed, surprised disgust when her soul mate’s customary roughhousing turns erotic. Review: Dancing to Destruction in Enda Walsh’s Fierce ‘Disco Pigs’ 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z

But unlike an appearance by Madonna in the Gulf Arab state in 2012 - which featured erotic dancing, provocative outfits and bare-chested monks - the concert passed off without controversy. Rolling Stones rock Abu Dhabi in first Middle East show 2014-02-21T21:55:03Z

Six decades on, is that why you write, to exercise erotic power? Howard Jacobson: 'I've been discovered' 2010-10-13T17:14:00Z

Short and sweet, these category romances pursued one particular relationship, often with erotic undertones. For Television and Romance Novels, Love at Last? 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z

But what was this music, this singular, uplifting, otherworldly, menacing, exotic and erotic sound? The London years 2010-08-07T23:02:00Z

Presley rose to fame, of course, with a hip-shaking erotic frankness that was new to the modern age of mass media and that was amplified by television. “The King,” Reviewed: A Documentary About Elvis That Wants to Be a Documentary About America 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

They sounded a lot like Kim and Jimmy: Kim especially has derived an evident, at times erotic thrill from secretly breaking the law with Jimmy. Rhea Seehorn Is Getting Away With It 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z

British e-publisher Clandestine Classics is releasing sexed-up editions of Sherlock Holmes, "Pride and Prejudice" and other classics, with erotic passages woven into the traditional texts. Publisher releases sexed-up editions of classics 2012-07-19T17:23:10Z

Rowling seems to have worn off for British readers as erotic novel "Fifty Shades of Grey" outsold all seven Harry Potter books on Amazon.co.uk on Wednesday, making author E.L. "Fifty Shades..." outsells Potter on Amazon UK 2012-08-01T17:22:02Z

The joy of Mr. Rando’s production is in its air of erotic effortlessness. Theater Review: In ‘On the Town,’ Sailors on Leave Look for Love 2013-06-19T21:10:16Z

She also plays a feverish Lady Macbeth, sweeping about the stage in undulant movements that suggest the surging erotic charge this villainess finds in her own wickedness. Critic?s Notebook: Madoff, Macbeth and Other Crooks, Onstage in Washington 2011-09-28T22:45:26Z

Love is not a prerequisite for erotic ecstasy, in Michael’s musical architecture. George Michael, a queer guide for the straight guys 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z

Their subjects are similarly erotic, scatological and forlorn. Artist Steven Hull takes a seat at the dark carnival of life 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

James' erotic romance novel "Fifty Shades Freed: Book Three of the Fifty Shades Trilogy" was the best-selling book on Amazon this year, followed by the thriller "Gone Girl," the online retailer said on Friday. "Fifty Shades Freed" most popular book on Amazon in 2012 2012-12-14T16:30:06Z

Foolishly, I assumed all his ancient classics must have similar erotic content. Julian Barnes: my life as a bibliophile 2012-06-29T21:55:18Z

In 2015, the board also banned the erotic film “Fifty Shades of Grey”. Lesbian love movie director sues Kenya to lift ban on film 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

But for all her diligence Jordan-Elizabeth Long couldn’t bring the dated exotic/erotic Arabian dance to life. In a season full of 'Nutcracker,' the brilliance of Balanchine shines through 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

It also may be an area of erotic awakening. Obsessed with high-school love 2013-03-06T01:00:00Z

The allure of warm breezes and lush foliage might be called erotic. Review | In the galleries: Images in ‘Weather the Storm’ are both reassuring and ominous 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

They’re part of a whole system of life, of erotic life. Ophelia Re-envisioned in ‘Imagining O’ 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z

Claire’s brush with death frees her of any erotic inhibitions but never represses her ample decency and kindness. ‘White as Snow’ Review: The Fairest of Them All 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

It’s a perfect pendant to “Posing Modernity,” as Thomas’s work — large, lavishly decorated paintings that shimmer with rhinestones — is a kind of prolonged visual fantasia on the erotics and politics of the black female model. Review | Two revelatory exhibitions upend our understanding of black models in art 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

The Song of Songs is an ode to the joys of erotic love and intimacy, wholly separate from a concern for procreation. The Bible backs same-sex couples: Point by point, why the haters are wrong 2014-05-10T15:00:00Z

Other lessons from this podcast There is such a thing as a vaginal lid; never read erotic fiction written by your dad. There's a search for a fifth meat – and 19 other things podcasts taught us in 2016 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

When Ronconi is recording particularly erotic stories, her only goal is to stay in the character’s head. Review | What does passion sound like? How five audiobook actors talk sexy. 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z

But this film goes further, turning the tale into an erotic thriller with too many twists and back stories to count. Movie Review: ‘Breaking the Girls,’ a Thriller Stuffed Full of Twists 2013-07-26T00:25:53Z

Again, this has been around for a very long time — probably longer than erotic romance. Before “Fifty Shades of Grey” 2012-07-14T23:00:00Z

Her eyes were brown, sensitive and shrewd, erotic and calculating. The Ideal Marriage, According to Novels 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

This resurrectionist vision of ghetto New York reaches its apotheosis, and takes on an erotic charge, in “Big Heat,” from 1988. Martin Wong, an Urban Visionary With a Hungry Eye 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

“If I paint a glass of water, people think it’s erotic,” the artist Marilyn Minter said during a recent visit to her studio in New York’s Garment District. Lush Morsels From an Artist’s Erotic Imagination 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

Racy thriller by Bollywood standards, promising "erotic" undertones and Saw-like horror. This week's new films 2011-07-08T23:07:35Z

You get all the violence, you get all the terror, you get all the erotic titillation – you get all that stuff. “In Cold Blood” turns 50: Capote’s spellbinding true crime novel gave us “The Jinx,” “Serial” and “Making a Murderer” 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z

Jones plays the title role of a young working woman, the niece of a plumber, whose own passion for the profession has a strange erotic edge. What to Stream This Weekend: Ten Farewell FilmStruck Films 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

An erotic toy with built-in flash memory is the latest addition to a growing, evolving industry. Noted: Noted — A Vibrator That Will Make Her Thankful for the Memory 2012-12-20T19:46:14Z

So it didn’t take much for an erotic e-book to catch fire. Critic?s Notebook: ?Fifty Shades of Grey?: S-and-M Cinderella 2012-04-02T21:58:46Z

In July’s wry, smart first novel, two women’s consensually violent host-guest relationship leads to an erotic awakening. 100 Notable Books of 2015 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

Rejected by several publishers before George Plimpton agreed to release it, in 1967, through The Paris Review, the novel is now regarded as a classic work of erotic literature. James Salter, Author of A Sport and a Pastime, Dies at 90 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

I do think Hakim is largely right about the hypocrisies implicit in contemporary feminism's attack on female "erotic capital" – and she's certainly right about patriarchal attitudes. Honey Money: The Power of Erotic Capital by Catherine Hakim ? review 2011-08-19T09:00:02Z

A reactionary swing in the early Ming dynasty brought with it the burning of erotic novels and woodblocks. China’s schizophrenic sexual revolution 2012-12-23T14:00:00Z

Her mother is taking apart her father’s specimens—he, too, was a taxidermist—and turning them into erotic art installations. The Best Books of 2019 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

When he started Grove, his wish list included two erotic books, both decades old, that had never been distributed unexpurgated in the United States: Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover" and Miller's "Tropic of Cancer." First Amendment crusader Barney Rosset dies 2012-02-22T17:03:09Z

If “I’m Glad My Mother Is Alive” were a shallow, emotionally manipulative melodrama, it might exploit the palpable erotic undertow in Thomas and Julie’s love-hate courtship. | 'I?m Glad My Mother Is Alive': ?I?m Glad My Mother Is Alive? - Review 2011-09-01T21:57:49Z

I understood that erotic media had meaning as a creative outlet, as a defining force within a subculture, and as a safer means of pursuing pleasure. I Never Planned on Being a Playboy Pinup 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

Both appeared in an erotic art film titled “Blue Tape.” ‘Crudo’ Is a Novel With a Real-Life Novelist in Thin Disguise 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

From the start, she regards Heist as “infuriating and enthralling,” and she seems to cast herself and Heist in a California episode of “Moonlighting” complete with zinging dialogue, ironic asides and erotic electricity. Review | Jonathan Lethem is back on the detective beat looking for America’s troubled soul 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

This is definitely a fairytale for grown-ups: It simmers with a mad, vibrating erotic energy, and its color palette, opulent and dusty at once, might be summed up as faded red-and-gilt boudoir. Review: Tale of Tales Is a Weird, Warped and Wonderful Italian Fairytale 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

Because such paintings were always seen as sexy, erotic and dangerous. Naked or nude? Laying bare an artistic divide 2012-11-28T16:53:35Z

For them, these erotic images were a moral minefield. Now Showing: Porn Fit for Spanish Kings 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

There is plenty of sex in this book, but little is erotic. Love’s Perils, Trauma’s Wounds: New Story Collections 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

After one song there, she boarded a clear floating catwalk and soared above the crowd, slithering through erotic numbers like “Woo” and “Sex With Me” while striking one hard pose after the next. Review: Rihanna on Tour, Part Preacher, Part Dominatrix, All Human 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

He couldn’t accept that what he saw as erotic was, for her, a character beat. Working Girl at 30: the workplace comedy that changed the game 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

Perhaps you’ve wondered if they understand the erotic implications of their movements. Dance Review: Heather Kravas and Jeremy Wade in Solo Works - Review 2011-10-11T00:20:31Z

A Georgia congresswoman introduced a motion to ban them from the United States, and the Vatican condemned their "erotic vagrancy." Obituary: Elizabeth Taylor, of movies and men 2011-03-24T02:49:21Z

The 21c Museum Hotel Louisville, for example, recently partnered with the nonprofit Louisville Literary Arts agency to host a workshop in erotic writing over a series of four Sundays. Beyond the D.J. in the Lobby: How Resorts Cater to the Creative Crowd 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

Neat and nasty, this is a treacherously erotic piece of writing. Review: Summer Shorts at 59E59, With ‘Love Letters’ and a Couch Potato 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z

But where Dietrich cultivated an air of alluring erotic mystery tinged with danger, Ms. LuPone conveys an eruptive volatility that is just below the surface. Patti LuPone in ‘Faraway Places Part Two’ at 54 Below 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

A mock U.N. made up of Angelenos, contemporary art from artists with roots in the Middle East, the early erotic works of Tom of Finland, and Larry Clark’s photos for sale — cheap. Datebook: Model U.N., art of the Middle East and vintage erotica 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

The sexual healers next door Topics: , , Sex Work, massage, reiki, , erotic touch, Just over eight minutes after getting onto the table, Becky is crying. The sexual healers next door 2013-01-27T00:00:00Z

As an exercise in style that draws a little on the classic Iranian cinema of Abbas Kiarostami but much more on ambiguous, erotic Western art film, it feels more jumbled and uncertain. Steamy lesbian sex -- in Tehran 2011-08-26T20:50:00Z

The manuscript was beautifully flawed, full of conjuring, a menagerie of tones, a clarity of devastation, the unspeakable spoken and made humane, the dreadful made beautiful, the erotic made quirky, the febrile details—the ebullient. Losing Max Ritvo 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Vibeke pursues Tom, a carnival worker, and revises her standards for an erotic encounter steadily downward. Cold Cases: Three Scandinavian Novels Explore Chilling Emotional Territory 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

A sex date is a sacred time to practice erotic spontaneity. 5 secrets to great sex 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

Both films refuse to soften the harsher personal truths faced by aging professional salesmen of erotic fantasy. | 'To Die Like a Man': The Anguish of Identity 2011-04-07T20:55:54Z

It was a force that vibrated through every second of Benjamin's performance: not only the hectic, erotic intensity of the pas de deux, but the small moments, too. Royal Ballet: Mayerling – review 2013-06-17T16:33:21Z

Oddest of all, for an adaptation of a novel that makes a viscerally convincing case for the essentially erotic nature of literature, she doesn’t read. A Deflated Adaptation of the Singular Cult Novel “I Love Dick” 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

Mr. Auburn’s production of “Anna Christie,” which opened on Saturday night at the Fitzpatrick Main Stage, is neither electrifying nor terribly erotic. Theater Review: David Auburn Stages ‘Anna Christie’ in the Berkshires 2013-08-26T21:24:04Z

Tatum plays Mike, who dips his toe into the world of erotic dancing and then falls the rest of the way in. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Marshall’ and ‘Magic Mike’ 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

Advising the audience in comprehending the Louise de Vilmorin texts used by Poulenc in “Metamorphoses,” Bullock was firm yet funny: “They are erotic, they are sensual, and they are completely surreal—so, good luck.” The Artistry of the Soprano Julia Bullock 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

In my view there is nothing inherently wrong with using erotic online material – especially if it helps you avoid seeking live contact that could potentially cause you more problems. I’m in a long-distance relationship – will porn stop me being unfaithful? 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

But by massaging the erotic springs of violence so vital to war, and stripping away all norms of decency, Kipling illuminates the depths of our darkest fantasies of revenge. When Rudyard Kipling’s Son Went Missing 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

The erotic side of Cohen’s catalog is one focus among many in “A Crack in Everything,” an exhibition that shows rather than tells. The Art of Rock: Four Museums Explore How We Connect to Music 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

Minnelli couches the dreamlike action in a velvety, erotic moonglow that contrasts with his tragic theme: that growing up is less a matter of wonder than of pain. What to Do This Weekend 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

Osorio has long focused on women and girls, making images that critique society’s domestic and erotic ideals. In the Galleries: Creating objects of power

Although he insists that the door remain open, danger seeps in anyway, through a probing, teasingly erotic and unexpectedly existential tête-à-tête that changes everyone’s life. ‘Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy’ Review: What We Talk About 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

French censors banned publicity for this erotic novel after its 1954 release in Paris; the following year it won a major literary prize. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

Then we meet her husband, who describes a fleeting encounter on a commuter train as the most erotic moment of his life. Hidden – review 2013-01-17T15:17:15Z

The figure of the languid woman is more than just an object of erotic desire. Review: ‘Flaming June’ Arrives in New York, Preceded by Its Reputation 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

And the fact that neither physician nor patients connect the box to erotic pleasure yields many laughs in Kurt Beattie's adroitly choreographed staging. ACT's 'In the Next Room' is a romp offering more than good vibes 2011-08-05T22:04:06Z

In his pictures from the late 1970s, “Day’s End” can be seen as a backdrop for erotic pursuits. From David Hammons, a Tribute to Pier 52 and Lastingness 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

There she meets and falls into an erotic relationship with the charismatic Jack Adelheim. Review | Camilla Läckberg’s ‘The Golden Cage’ is a psychological suspense story about vile people doing vile things 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z

When it comes to erotic romance, expect the unexpected. Why we're putting the 'missing' sex scenes back into Charlotte Brontë 2012-07-17T14:30:04Z

One of the more striking aspects of “Manly Health” is that it seems to exist in an erotic vacuum. Lessons on Male Insecurity (and Indigestion) from Walt Whitman’s Men’s-Health Column 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

Then there is Young’s father, the man who once provided that paternal comfort upon which her erotic life is mirrored; and her mother, who by Young’s account is a bit of a sex scold. “Porn stars are the gladiators of the entertainment industry” 2014-03-15T23:00:00Z

Noma, bored and lonely, seizes an opportunity, and Ms. Crespo and Mr. Mihm share a scene that begins drunkenly awkward but evolves into something tenderly erotic. Review: ‘Salvage’ Looks at What the Hazmat Dragged In 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

Other events include a major exhibition of Japanese erotic art, known as shunga, to be held at the British Museum this autumn. England’s samurai takes the stage 2013-01-31T15:34:21Z

I found her account very erotic, and soon we were sharing stories of other flings, kisses and flirtations that had occurred during our 12-year relationship. My life in sex: ‘We tell each other everything about our sex with other people’ 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

For a genre so preoccupied with infidelity, a key component of a good erotic thriller is commitment. Where have all the erotic thrillers gone? 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

In recent weeks they have besieged libraries with requests for the books, signaling a new wave of popularity for these erotic novels, which have become the best-selling titles in the nation this spring. ‘Fifty Shades of Grey,’ by E. L. James, in Demand at Libraries 2012-05-21T22:00:24Z

A moment later, her gleeful inviting expression of erotic promise is back in full force. Spectrum Dance Theater stages new ‘Autopsy of Love’ 2013-06-13T21:23:10Z

Your erotic time together needs to be playful. My partner and I are trying to conceive – but he's struggling with his sex drive 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z

“It’s not your quintessential, what people think of as ‘erotic’,” says Temple, who has been a fan of the writer for years. Juno Temple: 'Real eroticism is about how somebody’s sweat tastes' 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z

While their activities are mundane in nearly every case, they are almost all seemingly viewed through dreamily romantic, vaguely erotic lenses. Art Review: Danish Paintings Show at Scandinavia House 2013-12-05T22:25:09Z

There are certainly some bigger cultural changes at play too, like “sexual liberation,” such as it is, and women’s increasing erotic agency. There’s a new macho sex boast 2013-06-05T00:00:00Z

In these pieces, he considers his own erotic journey, his relationship with his mother, and the never-ending conundrum of reaching toward transcendence from within a mortal body. A great poet, even without James Franco’s endorsement 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

No serious reader of Irigaray would take this to mean she supported "erotic capital". Catherine Hakim: charm school marm 2011-08-19T22:01:41Z

They limn a familiar line between the erotic and the ecstatic, plunging, bucking and shaking themselves through rough-and-tumble skeins of circular movement. Dance Review: ?X? by Melinda Ring at Danspace Project 2010-05-14T21:59:00Z

The clothes had an erotic charge but with no direct focus on flesh, unless you count the swimsuit worn under a massive straw hat. Special Report: Fashion: Peter Pilotto Illuminates London Fashion Week 2011-09-19T17:48:59Z

He is the first codifier of the passions in music, whether it's love or anger, whether it's suffering, pathos, languor, religious fervour or erotic desire. John Eliot Gardiner: Monteverdi and me 2010-09-02T22:01:00Z

Despite the tawdry erotic intrigue, the movie’s plot is less compelling than its strongly controlled mise-en-scène, which, with its abundance of creaky machines and fusty bric-a-brac, evokes a 19th-century cabinet of curiosities. The Art of Animated Reality: Walerian Borowczyk and Jacques Demy 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

After regaining Kelly’s trust, she suggests that Kelly earn extra cash by dashing off a quickie erotic potboiler. ‘Happy Christmas’ Stars Anna Kendrick 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

Filin's predecessor quit after erotic photos of him were leaked online. Bolshoi dancer confesses 2013-03-06T08:58:49Z

The key to Mulholland Drive was that Lynch had found his film in Watts's intriguingly secretive erotic presence. David Thomson on Naomi Watts 2011-02-24T22:40:01Z

The trouble with the sex in most movies isn’t a matter of prudery but of a stultifying failure of erotic imagination—and of dramatic imagination. The Accurate Erotics of “Fifty Shades of Grey” 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

The scenes of Yukinojo seducing the beautiful young daughter of one of his victims are not just tremendously erotic but resonate strongly with our current focus on the multiplicities of gender identity. Japan Society Reintroduces the Filmmaker Kon Ichikawa 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

At his deepest, most characteristic level, Barker has always been a maker of highly personal mythologies — mythologies at once violent, erotic, sacred and profane. ‘The Scarlet Gospels,’ by Clive Barker 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z

This year, Tom of Finland promised viewers a kinky view into the life and inspiration of history’s most famous gay erotic artist, only to get oddly coy about what lies beneath the leather. French Aids drama BPM shows Hollywood how to capture gay history 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

As no less than Simone de Beauvoir wrote, “When Bogart puts his hand on Katharine’s shoulder for the first time, his gesture unleashes an intense erotic emotion.” This Summer’s Action Heroes Are Several Shades of Gray 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

At the suggestion of a friend, Rachel and Jeff visit a strip club to absorb its erotic buzz and bring it home. Movie Review: Bored Housewife Searches for a Spark in ‘Afternoon Delight’ 2013-08-29T23:11:04Z

This is foundationally about how you feel your own erotic embodiment.” The sexual healers next door 2013-01-27T00:00:00Z

They knit together the scientific, erotic and esoteric, juxtaposing materials that promise protection and others that induce fear. Elaine Cameron-Weir at Hannah Hoffman: Unsettling beauty 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z

For, as Hakim sees it, it is an "unholy alliance" of wannabe patriarchs, religious fundamentalists and radical feminists who have – in Anglo-Saxon countries especially – acted to devalue what she terms "erotic capital". Honey Money: The Power of Erotic Capital by Catherine Hakim ? review 2011-08-19T09:00:02Z

Attention; theatergoers who like their comedy rhymed, erotic and set to catchy tunes. Suggestive chat and a 'burlesque musical': Canada's Wet Spots makes 2 Seattle stops 2010-06-17T20:20:00Z

Combining historical sweep with cerebral humor, meticulous craftsmanship and an ability to mix and match tones and styles effortlessly — jazzy, erotic, mythic, tragic — he made 1980s hipster versions of big Hollywood studio productions. Television Review: ‘Hemingway & Gellhorn’ Has Its Premiere on HBO 2012-05-27T22:40:54Z

“She essentially becomes a sex toy, so she had to look erotic and uncomfortable at the same time,” Ms. Ishioka told The Ottawa Citizen in 2000. Eiko Ishioka, Designer, Dies at 73 2012-01-26T18:29:23Z

Many conductors pump the music for every bit of roiling, erotic excess. Review: An Ecstatic ‘Rosenkavalier’ Introduces a Conductor to Carnegie 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

He’s unsure, as we are, that she’s right for the part of the central female character in the erotic novel he’s adapted for the stage. ‘Venus in Fur’ at Seattle Rep: explosive tango for two 2014-02-14T02:10:42Z

“Complicit” presents an ethnography of men who have matured past their physical prime, perhaps, but not beyond erotic interest. A Gay Photographer Chronicles His Intergenerational Trysts 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z

“Women in Love” is a novel of ideas, but Lawrence’s overheated prose suggests an Expressionist landscape painting in which every element is supercharged with erotic energy. Erotic Energy Restored: ‘Women in Love,’ With Sex in Their Heads 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

As well as spanking for erotic purposes, some say they use it as discipline to make sure he does his fair share of the chores. My life in sex: the man who enjoys being spanked 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

Mr. Morlot also offers a lean, crisp and tightly coiled reading of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” that forgoes much of the usual brutish force but brims with a lither kind of erotic menace. Classical Playlist: Bach, Anders Koppel, Mahler and More 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

About a gay relationship during the English Civil War, when homosexuality was a hanging offense, it’s one of the most erotic novels I’ve read. Lionel Shriver Warns Readers Not to Meet Their Favorite Authors 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

You could position Killing Eve in this schlockily entertaining lineage – but, refreshingly, the erotic frisson between Eve and sociopathic assassin Villanelle has nothing to do with guys. Sequins, eyeliner and loos: how female friendships on screen got real 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z

It shouldn’t even have to mean “my erotic fantasy,” or “what turns me on.” Women, stop apologizing for loving “Magic Mike XXL”: Our visual pleasure matters as much as any man’s 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

Greenwell’s story collection revisits the Bulgarian setting of his celebrated novel, “What Belongs to You,” following a teacher who tries to forget his tortured upbringing by engaging in a variety of romantic and erotic attachments. 50 notable works of fiction in 2020 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

It’s sensual but loving, capturing both the devoted affection and the erotic pleasure that make a partnership feel full. Kehlani’s Journey of Healing 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

Visitors to the Museum of Sex in New York City meander through the artifacts of erotic life and history. At This Museum, Failures Are Welcome 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

This deep sensuality flows into the rest of life, giving everything an “erotic pulse.” From “kosher sex” to love maps, 5 tips for keeping your sex life hot 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z

This goddess is usually pictured unabashedly as a figure of much erotic appeal. Art Review: A Life-Affirming Female Force, Ready to Rumble 2011-07-07T21:58:23Z

Best of all is the venerable May, played by the peerless Siân Phillips, who combines religious conviction with erotic memories. This Is My Family – review 2013-06-25T16:45:03Z

The dining room's ambient noise recedes as Emma looks down at her plate, raking the tines of her fork over an erotic tangle of fleshy, pink shrimp. Movies: Italy Porn (For Ladies Only) 2010-06-05T01:57:00Z

Investigators speculate that lesbians and queer women enjoy greater satisfaction because of anatomical familiarity, longer sexual duration and not revering penetration as the apex of erotic mingling. What I learned talking to 120 women about their sex lives and desires 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

But just as important their raw, mobile faces register the common emotions of grief, loss, compassion, erotic passion, blame and hatred that these people inspire in each other as no one else ever could. Theater Review: ‘Tender Napalm’ by Philip Ridley at 59E59 Theaters 2012-08-30T02:00:15Z

Day originally chose to self-publish “Bared to You” because she didn’t think a traditional publisher would accept an erotic romance about two survivors of child abuse. “People are at their most vulnerable when they’re naked together”: The rise of erotic romance 2014-01-04T00:00:00Z

After months of speculation, the 33-year-old Hunnam was chosen to play Christian Grey and Dakota Johnson as Anastasia Steele, the main characters in the erotic, best-selling novel 50 Shades of Grey, by E. L. James. Charlie Hunnam Talks about 50 Shades Role 2013-09-09T18:30:30Z

He builds an erotic sand sculpture of a naked woman on a beach crowded with sailors. Anderson: 'The Master' inspired by L. Ron Hubbard 2012-09-01T18:16:04Z

In “Undertone,” he sits at the end of a table, trying to draw us into an erotic fantasy. Review: Vito Acconci Invites You to Watch Him as He Watches Us 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

The new poems display "the imaginative power, the full expressive power and the same gift, the erotic and romantic passion" of Neruda's greatest works, the poet and academic Pere Gimferrer told EFE. Unpublished Pablo Neruda love poems discovered in Chile 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

It begins with a grisly New York crime scene in which the victim’s six-inch heels lead the main character, a forensics wizard, into a morbidly erotic daydream about exactly how she died. A Critic’s Survey of Summer Books 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

Last month, the lackluster, erotic thriller-influenced “Unforgettable” debuted to little fanfare, raising a question: Where has the genre gone, and is it going to be making a comeback anytime soon? Where have all the erotic thrillers gone? 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

And the performances — especially those of Mr. Wood and Mr. Friedman, both superb — further muddle our natural revulsion to people who seek out ghastly erotic thrills. Review: Jennifer Haley’s ‘The Nether’ Explores the Dark Side of the Web 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

Dodd and Quell have a match made in sociopath heaven, and there is a kind of covert, erotic excitement in their association. The 10 best films of 2012, No 1 – The Master 2012-12-13T22:00:28Z

The Daily Mail wrote, “A Harvard student group that relishes in conversations about erotic sex has been officially recognized by the prestigious university.” Relishes in conversations about erotic sex? Not exactly. Hey, Ann Coulter! Did you hear about the kinky Stanford students? 2014-03-09T01:00:00Z

"Sex: Unzipped" doesn't introduce the erotic blueprint, but the special definitely explores the many ways beyond penetration that people experiment with sexual pleasure. From Goop to puppets, how Netflix is offering sex ed for a new age 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

The singer begins the night with a solo performance in front of a projection of erotic statuary, and becomes progressively more sexualised from there. Tramlines, Devendra Banhart, Rihanna: this week's new live music 2013-07-13T05:00:00Z

Mr. Lubezki can infuse Sunset Boulevard, Venice Beach and other often-filmed spots with a beauty that feels erotic and metaphysical at the same time. Review: In ‘Knight of Cups,’ a Writer’s Flesh Is Willing but His Spirit Is Weak 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

Oshima uses the formula of kabuki theatre and taps the rich erotic literary history of feudal Japan. Nagisa Oshima 2013-01-15T12:43:54Z

An erotic magazine needs a centerfold, of course. ‘Minx’ Reveals That All Nudity Is Not Created Equal 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z

Anne becomes Circe, a powerful, erotic woman who emasculates her lovers. Obsessed with Anne Boleyn 2012-06-18T22:01:00Z

A later piece, “To the City,” seems to depict a pair of young men on what is perhaps their first erotic road trip. Review | You can’t really know John Ashbery’s poems until you’ve seen his collages 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

In a movie era remarkable for its reluctance to dramatize erotic intimacy, Shame merits praise for the dark energy of its sexual encounters. Shame: Michael Fassbender's Naked Launch 2011-12-01T09:55:12Z

A dummy was duly thrown into a marsh and Söderbaum became the State Water Corpse once more, as Goebbels wrote of being moved by the “erotics of death”. The 'Nazi Marilyn Monroe': Goebbels had very nice eyes – but he was a devil! 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

There's a fine erotic tension between Mark Donald's blithe, unworldly Trench and Rebecca Brewer's tempestuous Blanche, whose romantic entanglement is reminiscent of a puppy being embraced by a hungry cobra. Widowers' Houses – review 2013-06-21T17:07:00Z

And she certainly promises to apply the same, snappy New York sensibility to the part of Shakespeare's greatest erotic heroine. Kim Cattrall: A New York doll returns to the UK 2010-05-08T23:08:00Z

Instead of feeling liberated when he dies, she remains in erotic thrall to his ghost. Dudamel plants seeds for the future with De Falla and flamenco 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

Slightly wrinkled and dusty, they still communicate an implicitly bodily, erotic juiciness. Art Review: Artful Commentary, Oozing From the Walls 2011-02-17T21:27:55Z

It is her erotic fiction, however, with which she is most associated, including the story collections Delta of Venus and Little Birds. Juno Temple: 'Real eroticism is about how somebody’s sweat tastes' 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z

Yes, of course the scene is redolent with kinky, erotic possibility and yes, of course that is barely alluded to and not expressed at all. "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse": Edward, Jacob and Bella's hot three-way 2010-06-30T00:30:00Z

Clearly at one with the decision to emphasize Marguerite’s sexuality, Marlis Petersen, an acclaimed Lulu from Alban Berg’s opera, sings with seductive brilliance and moves with almost erotic allure — an unforgettable portrayal. Music: 'Les Hugenots,' Making Operatic History Again 2011-06-21T11:21:41Z

Two years since we’ve had the pleasure of hearing Brydon retell, in a soothing American drawl, a story of an immensely erotic experience he had with a kumquat. Where next for Steve Coogan's The Trip? 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

There was always an element of the erotic in the national obsession with her. Margaret Thatcher: we disliked her and we loved it 2013-04-09T05:00:00Z

“The capacity for collective joy is encoded into us almost as deeply as the capacity for the erotic love of one human for another,” she writes. I Miss Being Part of an Audience 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

Yet Lust said it was film’s capacity to excite the erotic imagination that first drew her to pornography. ‘There’s Not Just One Type of Porn’: Erika Lust’s Alternative Vision 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

Time and again, Rickson's production illuminates the play: in none of the half-dozen versions I've seen has the conflict between Anna and Deeley carried quite such an erotic charge as it does here. Old Times - review 2013-01-31T23:00:02Z

The prize does not cover "pornographic or expressly erotic literature". Tom Wolfe up for bad sex prize 2012-11-20T15:21:56Z

Visitors familiar with his semiabstract, cosmic-apocalyptic paintings and erotic photographs of his wife may be surprised to discover his delicate ceramic vases at Cavin-Morris. 2010-02-06T06:34:00Z

That said, most of us don't have the option of falling into the arms of Bacchus or sleeping in a Greek cave that turns into an erotic bower. Lohengrin; Ariadne auf Naxos; La Donna del Lago – review 2013-05-25T23:05:56Z

Bertlmann's work delves deep into the female psyche, while merging the erotic and the ominous to suggest how the female body has been fetishised. PhotoEspaña 2013: the 1970s feminist avant garde 2013-06-14T15:50:00Z

The man who commissioned the work, Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, kept the large painting hidden behind a curtain, underscoring the work’s erotic intentions. SAM’s ‘Flesh and Blood’ exhibit depicts desire, violence and more using the artistic vessel of the human body 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

When Kendra says that it’s erotic to be so close to a man somebody wants to kill, it’s obviously better than if they’re on opposite sides of a room getting dressed. Robert Pattinson and Director David Cronenberg on Cars, Cosmopolis and Fans Who Care 2012-08-14T20:48:47Z

If the decision is to stay true to the text, I wonder how many consumers of erotic literature will be comfortable becoming consumers of visual pornography. Fifty Shades of Grey is no one-handed erotic read for me but … 2012-05-29T11:17:33Z

But impurists will be satisfied that the erotic intensity between them is so palpable, even when Godwin dissipates it by cutting away from the theatrical moment to a filmed montage in some other dimension. Review: ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ Cut in Half and Twice as Good 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

The finale of the erotic trilogy has taken in $78.6 million domestically so far. Box Office: 'Black Panther' Heads to Glory With $235 Million... 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z

With these words, Sarah Waters confirmed the arrival of a world-class writer capable of turning conventional literary erotics upside-down and inside-out. Sarah Waters: ‘The Handmaiden turns pornography into a spectacle – but it's true to my novel' 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z

In fact the disconnect is part of the problem: the risk is that it becomes permanent, and she never learns to connect sexy attitude to erotic feelings. Motherlode Blog: Sexy Costumes for Little Girls Aren't Cute 2011-10-31T15:39:24Z

But consider your own part in this, too: you married him while intuitively knowing he would not readily provide the erotic connection you now feel is essential. I have never had satisfying sex with my husband. Should I just give up? 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

Judges were impressed by an erotic scene involving Lao, the documentary's presenter, and his girlfriend, Mistletoe. Author Okri receives bad sex prize 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z

"Patriarchal ideologies have systematically trivialised women's erotic capital to discourage women from capitalising on it – at men's expense." Catherine Hakim: charm school marm 2011-08-19T22:01:41Z

The scene grows more chaotic and erotic, as clothes come off and naked bodies make intimate contact — to put it mildly — with props and with one another. Review: ‘This Bridge’ Is an Audacious New Dance Work 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

“For Real” is affecting, with none of the over-the-top plotlines that can cloud erotic romance. Love is love: The best LGBT romance novels 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z

Haque was nothing short of sensational as Soraya, a dance club owner whose own act is one of intense erotic sensuality and blazingly proud defiance. Sophiya Haque 2013-01-18T13:33:01Z

Long dismissed as dirty little secrets, Rembrandt’s erotic etchings have been known to collectors for centuries but rarely seen by the public. In Transit Blog: Rembrandts on Exhibit, for Adults Only 2011-11-18T17:33:36Z

If the answer is yes, then there is hope of restoring that erotic connection. My partner says our relationship is the sexiest he's had. For me, it's the least. Can it be saved? 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

Sally’s erotic fantasies change only with regard to her outfits. Nora’s brand new world for women 2012-06-27T19:36:00Z

Blending elements of Western kitsch, traditional Latin American handicrafts and pre-Columbian burial customs, the piece somehow invoked both ritual solemnity and carefree, even erotic pleasure. The Textile Artist Employing Centuries-Old Practices and Pop Culture Imagery 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

They are marvelous expressions of erotic curiosity, desire and anxiety. Review: ‘The Art Show’ at the Park Avenue Armory Covers the Creative Map 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

She wrote more than 100; later, with the waning of the pulps, she turned out erotic novels under a series of pseudonyms. Florence King, Writer Who Wielded an Acerbic Wit, Dies at 80 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z

But to Patty Marks, CEO of Ellora’s Cave, “the world’s first publisher of erotic romance,” none of this is new. Before “Fifty Shades of Grey” 2012-07-14T23:00:00Z

Ibsen’s is a doctor’s wife, haunted by a past romance with a sailor, the Stranger, whose power over her, like her attraction to the sea, is as mystical as it is erotic. Theater Review | 'Sounding': Swimming in Murky Waters Infested With Death and Life 2010-03-02T22:19:00Z

It may help explain why a lot of women claim that nipple stimulation is erotic, he adds.” 10 ways the brain dictates sex 2013-01-16T23:31:00Z

Having built tension by nicely guiding viewers smoothly through Christian’s courtship of Ana, Taylor-Johnson has little to deliver as a climax, erotic or dramatic. Review: 'Fifty Shades of Grey': Where's the Wicked Whiplash? 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

In these images, the mood is erotic without being furtive. He Captured a Clandestine Gay Culture Amid the Derelict Piers 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

The erotic romance titles that I publish are read by an overwhelmingly female audience, with 95% of our purchasers being women. Why we're putting the 'missing' sex scenes back into Charlotte Brontë 2012-07-17T14:30:04Z

This gestures to the ways in which women — particularly onscreen — have historically been destined for display, intentional objects of erotic pleasure. ‘Watcher’ Review: Terror, at a Glance 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

On Monday, E L James's multimillion-selling erotic trilogy was placed No 4 on the American Library Association's annual study of "challenged books". Fifty Shades of Grey and Captain Underpants head US library complaints 2013-04-15T08:32:26Z

And avoidance attempts only tend to increase the erotic charge. I’ve fallen in love with another woman – but we both have husbands 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

She is intrigued by Christina Ramberg’s erotic drawings of bound and broken women wearing tightly fitted undergarments, often with their faces hidden or missing. 7 female artists you don’t know — but should 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

Photograph: LMK It has already been turned down by the , and now it appears has also passed on the Lindsay Lohan erotic The Canyons over what are described as "quality issues". SXSW follows Sundance in rejecting Lindsay Lohan's The Canyons 2013-01-24T12:28:27Z

For a while, it appeared that every project he signed up to would be just as transgressive – the erotic serial Red Shoe Diaries, Twin Peaks – but The X-Files changed everything. David Duchovny: ‘I can't play Mulder the way I did. That would be obscene’ 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z

Wood seems too intent on speaking with a credible Romanian accent to be able to express erotic passion. The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman – first look review 2013-01-23T17:14:22Z

So does Andriessen feel himself to be part of a tradition of erotic writing? Indecent exposure 2011-04-07T21:00:03Z

He noted that the project, which he said will be the world's first 3D erotic film, will also be the first 3D film of any type made in Italy. 2010-01-29T07:15:00Z

In the last year, a number of platforms have surfaced to offer audio erotic content. Porn without the visuals: I tried audio erotica – would it turn me on? 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

And Alden's production has a chilly erotic beauty that disturbs as well as allures. The Makropulos Case 2010-09-22T20:59:00Z

Art is provided by Italian erotic comics maestro Milo Manara who here shows a great facility for mangled bodies and bloody stumps in addition to naked ladies. Alejandro Jodorowsky's dance on the edge of meaning 2011-01-25T12:27:40Z

After the 1977 law ending censorship in Spain, he made several erotic low-budget films, which demonstrated a fascination with the manipulation of images and sexual symbolism. Bigas Luna obituary 2013-04-07T16:53:09Z

Most well known for her portraits of erotic flowers and looming skulls, Georgia O’Keeffe was also haunted by cityscapes. Georgia O’Keeffe’s urban side 2012-07-25T16:42:00Z

James' erotic novel, but she was curious about the film adaptation, which opened over the weekend. 'Fifty Shades of Grey' audience: applause, laughter, groans (of pain) 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z

He noted that, according to the Greek poet Hesiod, "the first divine agent that caused creation was Eros - the spirit of erotic drive or the impulse to create anything." Greek crisis: An odyssey seen through ancient myth 2012-06-24T11:41:12Z

You know, the fashion world is not very erotic. Carla Bruni: Sarkozy and me 2013-06-01T08:00:00Z

A high point of the evening was the appearance of Miss Ekaterina, a contortionist and exotic dancer exuding erotic danger, who snaked through the audience. Review: In ‘Love Und Greed,’ Mad Jenny Doffs Her Hat to the Have-Nots 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z

It’s this distance that’s at the heart of keeping an erotic charge between you and your partner. How to have sex with the same person for the rest of your life 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z

“It’s not mythological nor an allegory. It’s erotic. That was not acceptable, because she saw herself as this enlightened empress.” 10 things you may not know about Catherine the Great 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

The world appears very erotic in my eyes. Daido Moriyama's best photograph: my girlfriend's legs in fishnets 2012-10-03T15:58:56Z

Thankfully, most dogs or cats don’t view us in an erotic light. Do our pets ever really love us – or do they just stick around for the food? 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

Despite her initial resistance, they share an ambiguous, tastefully staged dance of erotic engagement set to a disco beat. Review: In ‘Unseamly,’ a Woman Takes On an Apparel Tycoon 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

“But I have erotic dreams only about men.” 7 Things We Learned about Cara Delevingne from Her "Vogue" Interview 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

His musical tributes to her began in the 1990s, when he returned to a few hypnotic, sensuous chords he had created as part of a soundtrack for a lesbian erotic film. Can You Hear Agnes Martin’s Serenity in John Zorn’s Frenzied Music? 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

In “Metropolis” Rotwang’s wild gestures, the robot Maria’s erotic contortions and the destructive frenzy of the workers’ revolt threaten to overwhelm Lang’s clean lines and precise spaces. Dvdsdave Kehr: It?s Overlords vs. Lower Depths in a Future City 2010-11-20T19:15:00Z

In the opening story, “Night Journey,” a woman and her husband are foiled in their attempt to meet another couple for a night of possible erotic exploration. Sex, Death and More Sex: Three Books of Fiction by Acclaimed Japanese Writers 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

The subjects were shown everyday images of people as well as erotic images while they lay inside a brain-scanning machine. Women as likely to be turned on by sexual images as men – study 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z

This was the woman who put a nation in erotic meltdown merely by listing M&S's range of ready meals. TV review: Blackout; Jamie's Summer Food Rave Up 2012-07-02T21:00:01Z

Treated to intense printing, including digitalized sequin patterns, the effects echoed Erdem’s descriptions as “volatile, erratic — and a bit erotic.” Special Report: Fashion: Burberry: A Crowd Pleaser 2011-02-21T18:29:01Z

“There are funny hats, magical hats, eccentric hats, erotic hats, hats that are disturbing,” Ms. Fulco said. Critic?s Notebook: The Cat in the Hat Comes Back 2011-02-02T21:40:03Z

Actually, he made outstanding works throughout his career, especially landscape paintings full of implicitly erotic forms and energy. Marsden Hartley Gets His Due in Berlin 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

The erotic blockbuster "Fifty Shades of Grey" is next with 1,270 holds. Lit Life: Fall literary-series lineups; a Seattle7Writers fundraiser 2012-07-20T23:34:04Z

Although the initial critical reception acknowledged the feelings of unease created by the erotic situation, the work was generally well received, the rare literary achievement that became a best seller. Behind the Kidnapping Case That Inspired ‘Lolita’ 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

Born in Norway and based in Los Angeles, this ambitious photographer takes highly controlled portraits and still lifes that mix the erotic and the austere, and that often seem to be dripping with fluids. 5 Artists to Follow on Instagram Now 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

No human society has ever operated on that basis, and outside the erotic fantasies of Ayn Rand, it’s hard to imagine one that might. Hillary’s predicament and the history of capitalism: Former Monty Python member explains it all 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z

While conveying the character’s erotic depravity, she sounds seductive and shimmering. On the Disc, Not the Stage 2010-09-03T15:19:00Z

The eminent film scholar makes the provocative case that the erotic life of movies shapes and misshapes us, and suggests that since the Production Code of the 1930s, cinema has helped subvert smug heterosexual pieties. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

The unexpected element is that the shame of erotic is largely in the imagination, and once people had read it, they felt happy to discuss it openly. Why women love Fifty Shades of Grey 2012-07-06T21:55:24Z

In collages by Troy Michie it’s physically fractured, its erotic charge interrupted, confused, even canceled out. Art Once Shunned, Now Celebrated in ‘Queer Archaeology; Queer Abstraction’ 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z

Found after his death in 1973, these compelling and perverse pictures suggest private games between artist and model, and disclose how design can be an erotic enterprise. Times Critics’ Top Art Books of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

In them, metallic tentacles penetrate or sprout from soft female flesh, the tussle between birth and death replayed in erotic duels that the camera is reluctant to leave. Review: ‘Dark Star’ Peers Into H. R. Giger’s Creative World 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

But I might as well be: Languorous, perfectly toned bodies writhe in “La Piscine,” the 1969 French erotic thriller taunting us from the screen. The Zombie-Mall Weirdness of Going to the Movies Again 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z

Before long, gossip and scandal threaten the erotic idyll. ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ Review: When Connie Met Ollie 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

Later that same day, with the sort of mind-scrambling synchronicity I have come to expect of my theatergoing marathons here, I found myself attending not one but two onstage portraits of extremely dangerous erotic activity. Critic’s Notebook: London’s Dark Musicals ‘American Psycho’ and ‘Stephen Ward’ 2014-01-20T18:23:32Z

His father, an artist, focuses on abstract shapes and erotic imagery in various media. Sarah Paige, Daniel Doktori 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z

“The Favourite” is this year’s Anglophile historical drama as well as the only frankly erotic story in contention. 2019 Oscar Nominations and Predictions (And Who Should Have Made the List) 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

Moi Non Plus” was the most erotic record ever written, according to The Guardian. A Word With: Jane Birkin: Jane Birkin Brings Serge Gainsbourg Songs to New York 2011-12-09T20:50:28Z

As EL James's erotic Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy dominates this summer's book charts, with sales of over three million copies in the UK already this year, the rewritten classics are likely to sell well. Fifty Shades of Grey meets Pride and Prejudice: classics get erotic rewrites 2012-07-17T15:08:53Z

Monroe was the erotic object of the piece, but Curtis managed to exude a steamy sexuality as a man and a woman. Remembering Tony Curtis: The Best of Everything 2010-09-30T22:15:00Z

I met her once, and we talked about a magazine photo that seemed to have thrown his fans into total erotic disarray: Redford on a tennis court, bare-chested, arm muscles bulging. The Celebrity Interviews of Yesteryear 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z

Mr. Chase pushes the erotic undercurrent into the open and also into the realm of fantasy and semi-abstraction. Salman Toor, a Painter at Home in Two Worlds 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

In that drama, too, Mr. Rickman was paired with Ms. Duncan, who portrayed the Marquise de Merteuil, his playmate in erotic blood sports. In Alan Rickman the Stage Actor, an Erotic Blend of Desire and Conscience 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

This little erotic lyric is an oddity in his work, and yet it seems to possess, in miniature, the rhythmic drive and flexibility which make "The Hound Of Heaven" memorable on its more ambitious scale. Poem of the week: An Arab Love-Song by Francis Thompson 2012-12-17T10:52:15Z

"Fifty Shades of Grey," based on the erotic romance novel by E.L. 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' most anticipated 2015 film, survey says 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

They lived together in or around Beverly Hills and Palm Springs for nearly a decade and remained friends, but the erotic fervor fizzled. Betsy Drake, Movie and Stage Actress, Dies at 92 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

Wagner reportedly became embarrassed when anyone pointed out the opera's erotic nomenclature. Wagner's Tannh?user 2010-12-11T00:06:00Z

Roman erotic art is startling and fascinating, but it lacks that spark of sin. Roman erotica lacks a sense of sin 2013-03-26T14:37:18Z

Her Maggie is as catty as her sobriquet implies, with a piquant way with words; she’s also resentful, vulnerable, in erotic thrall to her disinterested husband, smart, cruel and ferociously loyal. What if a 1955 shocker is a 2017 shrug? How Antaeus keeps the heat in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

The surrealists used poetry, literature and the visual arts to depict the outer reaches of erotic fantasy. Perspective | This painting might be sexually disturbing. But that’s no reason to take it out of a museum. 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

Doug sees women as the erotic magazine industry's great untapped market. Are "Julia" and "Minx" the same show? Basically, yes. That's wonderful 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z

“The Only Story” is just as pessimistic, with about the same satirical temperature and measuring the same ironic distance from what at first seems to be a love story that might generate some erotic heat. He’s 19. She’s 48 and Married. When They Play Doubles Tennis, It’s a Match. 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

She has decided that Anna Nicole was driven, like Salome, by an erotic compulsion that compelled her to destroy herself: "I find her fascinating and tragic because she really went for death." Anna Nicole: the opera 2011-01-02T00:04:04Z

It began as an abstract tone poem of cooing high notes, then floated down from the stratosphere and morphed into an accelerated fast-swinging celebration of erotic besottedness. Critic’s Notebook: Lincoln Center’s American Songbook Series at Allen Room 2013-02-03T22:53:42Z

There’s a real uneasiness about the erotic content of romance. Mary Bly (aka Eloisa James) Talks to TIME About Her Literary Double Life 2012-05-18T11:00:52Z

And don’t even ask about the erotic possibilities of a grenade. The Week Ahead: Aug. 26 — Sept. 1 2012-08-26T07:00:06Z

Ms. Mirza is a sharp writer and a savvy thinker, quick to suss that sex and politics aren’t unrelated, that our beliefs influence whom we bed and how, that repulsion has its own erotics. Review: When Muslim Identity Gets Tangled in the Sheets 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

The film is “a cold, funny number about the erotics of money and the seduction of death,” Manohla Dargis wrote in The New York Times in August. New DVDs: ‘Buster Keaton Collection,’ ‘The Jazz Singer’ 2013-01-06T04:13:01Z

Set for release Jan. 23 from Universal, the erotic thriller stars Lopez as a high-school teacher coping with a failed marriage and raising her teenage son. Jennifer Lopez gets mixed up with 'The Boy Next Door' in new trailer 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

He casts Cotillard, one of the foxiest actresses alive, as a smoldering temptress who embodies all the female, erotic energy absent from this universe, and then literally locks her in the basement. "Inception": A clunky, overblown disappointment 2010-07-15T01:01:00Z

Our culture needs to make space for young girls, as well as young boys, to safely explore their maturing bodies and initial erotic longings. My bad sex wasn’t rape 2013-03-22T23:00:00Z

These films were not afraid to juggle noir, black comedy and bedroom inventiveness – so why do the 90-minute erotic pictures of today focus on everything except the story? The sag of the erotic thriller: can film ever take sex seriously again? 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

She dances the mambo in erotic frenzy, the camera focused squarely on her pelvis and legs. | Leg Work 2011-09-07T21:58:28Z

Instead you get cruelty, blood sacrifice, erotic hysteria and darkness. In praise of ? David McVicar 2010-04-28T23:05:00Z

"When people read erotic symbols in my paintings, they're really talking about their own affairs," she said. New Mexico on Thames: Georgia O'Keeffe gets big London show 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z

Snippets of blues and rock, and more industrial interludes, added layers of urgency and erotic undertones. 2010-01-30T05:35:00Z

“It’s very erotic, they get naked, they lick each other, they kiss each other, they hold each other,” Ms. Bennahum said. Renegades and Radical Bodies in 3 New York Exhibitions 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

But the erotic attachment to and inspiration from a succession of the artist's lovers is the same. 'Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium' is an impressive dual-museum overview 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z

Over the course of a 75-year photographic career, Cunningham captured shape, movement and pattern with an intent honed to an edge, and with a sensuality that flirted into the erotic. SAM exhibition shows why Seattle’s Imogen Cunningham is one of the leading photographers of her time 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z

“Eroticism is the thrilling desire to connect: to know, to explore, to penetrate, and to comprehend. When our lives are electrified by an erotic pulse, all existence becomes illuminated.” 8 lessons men raised on porn need to learn 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z

These guys are high priests of erotic delight, knights pledged to the service of an exalted ideal of female happiness. Review: ‘Magic Mike XXL,’ Fleshing Out a Sequel With Heart as Well as Pecs and Abs 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

And yet, a life without sex, without desire or the erotic frisson – is that a life? Are any of us truly comfortable with sex? 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z

It could not have been lost on the dapper, self-regarding Douglass that men and women swooned over him, describing him in terms that bordered on erotic. Frederick Douglass in Full 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

The result, in the word chosen by Mr. Costa himself, was “erotic.” Eroticism Is Key at Calvin Klein 2012-09-14T16:14:44Z

YouTube stars may rule the mainstream internet, but as one author of erotic Hartbig stories put it, fan fiction is “our playground.” When Fan Fiction and Reality Collide 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z

So I need to think about what direction I need to take her in — maybe working on longer erotic novels, maybe maturing her a little from her sleazy, campy Bigfoot days. Bigfoot, sexy? Erotica author explains 2014-01-23T00:00:00Z

There is no section for erotic fiction in the library, he said, so “Fifty Shades” has been placed among the other trade books for adults. ‘Fifty Shades of Grey,’ by E. L. James, in Demand at Libraries 2012-05-21T22:00:24Z

And in a different register — with a little more erotic fire, a rougher finish and broader vowels — Tony Curtis managed a similar feat. An Appraisal: Marvelous Invention of Movie Make-Believe 2010-10-01T23:18:00Z

It is one of the most erotic poems in literature. Perspective | The perfect poem for Valentine’s Day 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

In the vespers, Monteverdi allowed excessive sensuality of religious devotion an erotic component. Monteverdi's 'L'Orfeo,' the first modern opera, has lessons for digital age 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

Imagine the erotic vistas that could erupt in your mind's face while a world-famous philosopher is helping an elegant grandmother across the road. Et cetera: Steven Poole's non-fiction choice - reviews 2012-06-01T21:55:04Z

To wit: “Ordained confinement wherein embrace is organized as a situational necessity is recognizably the ground floor of my erotic imagination.” Newly Released Books, Including Works by Sara Majka and Pat Barker 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

In “The Sorrows of Young Werther,” Goethe’s bittersweet tale of unrequited love, the tree is used throughout as an erotic leitmotif. Ian Bostridge’s ‘Schubert’s Winter Journey’ examines the composer’s melancholy work 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

The conversations between Tamara and Rafaela crackle with erotic charge, while the prose, at once elegant and precise, brings scenes to life with vivid force. 'The Last Nude': Artist paints model, love ensues 2012-01-12T21:12:04Z

I Give It A Year is a down and dirty version of Notting Hill, in which Spall treats us to a prolonged nude scene, played for comic, rather than erotic, effect. Rafe Spall: from fat to fit 2013-01-19T09:00:00Z

It abounds in both erotic myth and social commentary. Why I've rediscovered Victorian art 2011-08-12T15:42:11Z

Most of us would laugh out loud if some idiot started abusing us in the style of the book's supposed hero, yet many millions of women found it disturbingly erotic. I've just discovered my husband's addiction to gay porn and meeting men 2013-05-12T07:59:01Z

The frightened look on Maggie’s face suggests that there’s much more to her and Cam’s story, though we never learn if theirs is a soul connection, an erotic attraction or a delusion. Review: ‘Infinitely Polar Bear’ Traces a Dad’s Ups and Downs 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

E L James' erotic trilogy was easily the year's biggest hit, selling more than 35 million copies in the U.S. alone and topping bestseller lists for months. 'Fifty Shades' dominates publishing in 2012 2012-12-11T17:05:13Z

By this I mean I had complete familiarity with a male’s erotic responses because I myself was a male. I’m gay. Why did I marry a woman? 2012-11-11T02:15:00Z

The stars have teamed up with erotic retailer Lovehoney to create an officially licensed line of sex toys based on storylines from the show. Broad City” is releasing a line of sex toys which is so on-brand for them 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z

It seemed a bit random, yet I can see why he'd query the wisdom of summoning a sustained erotic vignette on one's way into work. Why women love Fifty Shades of Grey 2012-07-06T21:55:24Z

Often the entire cast will meld into a single cluster of entwined flesh, suggesting everything from a thorny thicket to an erotic pretzel of confused identities. Review: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Tailored for Multitaskers 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z

Kennedy deals with Hannah’s past trauma with deft authenticity, rendering the more erotic parts of the book lovely and emotional, but it’s the story’s dialogue that really shines. March’s best romance: ‘Chase Me,’ The Deal’ and ‘It Started With a Scandal’ 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

Robert Louis Stevenson will forever be an erotic novelist in my mind. Tales of a female sex addict 2014-02-18T00:00:00Z

This makes my list not for its erotic merits, but for the sheer physics of it. The best of Reddit porn 2013-09-14T23:34:00Z

People today of course are far more at ease with their bodies and their vast potential for erotic self-expression. Review: Plunging Into Polyamory With ‘How to Transcend a Happy Marriage’ 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

The art of erotic conversation often thrives in long-distance relationships, and it is partly the obstacle of distance that enhances the spark. We used to have long-distance dirty talk but, since I banned it, the spark has gone 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z

A son reads his father’s erotic novels in a new comedy special. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘My Dad Wrote a Porno’ and ‘S.N.L.’ 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z

Ms. Watson said, adding that couples should put that kind of effort into their erotic life. Podcast & Carol & Ted & Alice 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

The male nudity here is not erotic, but something more essential. 12 great male nude film scenes, beyond the cheap laughs 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

New York in the 1920s and ’30s was America’s capital of erotic burlesque, with dozens of theaters offering alluring performances, mixed with vaudeville and variety shows. 5 Ways to Time-Travel (and Party) in New York 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

And "one reason why erotic capital has been overlooked is that the elite cannot monopolise it, so it is in their interest to belittle it and sideline it." Catherine Hakim: charm school marm 2011-08-19T22:01:41Z

Whatever film they appear in, be it a comedy or a drama or an erotic thriller, it's sure to be a runaway success – a fact that should depress you quite considerably. Go Compare: the Movie - which other ads would make great films? | Stuart Heritage 2010-04-01T10:49:00Z

The other day, a friend and I were giving each other erotic massages, and while he was rubbing my g-spot I asked him if he could reach to feel my cervix. “It’s like being on ecstasy”: The orgasm no one talks about 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

Its subject is more libidinous, I think, and less romantic than two other “erotic mythologies” painted by Titian and on view at the museum in a nearby gallery. After almost 500 years, Titian’s ‘Danaë’ still makes you blush

The kinds of words you prefer to avoid are not essential aspects of erotic conversation. I find dirty talk awkward during sex – is that a problem? 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

Julia finds erotic texts, sent to another woman, on Jacob’s cellphone. ‘Here I Am,’ Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tale of a Fracturing Family 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

And the encounter with Mr. Innvar’s character, which concludes the first act, is a perfect, sad little poem of erotic connection. Theater Review: Mary McCann in ‘Harper Regan’ at Atlantic Theater Company 2012-10-11T02:00:00Z

Banned in many Arab countries, The Proof of the Honey tells of the erotic adventures of a Syrian scholar in Paris. Erotic novel removed from iTunes store due to cover, says publisher 2012-11-16T13:48:23Z

The difference between the erotic mystique of Playboy and that of its London equivalents is the difference between Marilyn Monroe and Diana Dors. Movie Review: ‘The Look of Love’ Stars Steve Coogan as a Sex Impresario 2013-07-04T20:55:14Z

The life drawings she did in his classes are an early revelation of this show: dense, foggy charcoal circuits, swallowing up Picasso’s split perspectives and the erotic machinery of the Surrealists. Lee Krasner, Hiding in Plain Sight 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z

Some cam models have scaled back on erotic performance because they can earn more money selling homemade cookies and hair clippings. The New Unsexy Sexy Marketplace 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z

And then how they attack and feed off their prey seems very sensual and erotic -- biting the neck. A Minute With: Colin Farrell on his "Fright Night" 2011-08-17T09:07:33Z

The one Ms. Blamey has provided is like an erotic poem on the theme of fat. The New Chumley’s Raises the Culinary Bar 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

That poem is about the physicality of erotic torment: the fluttering heart, the fire on the skin, the buzzing in the ears, the trembling all over. Review: Breathing, Dancing Art at the Met Museum 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z

“The New Girlfriend” never pretends to be more than what it is, a delicious and frothy fantasia with a teasing erotic frisson. Review: In ‘The New Girlfriend,’ a Widower’s Secret Life Is Revealed 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

Neurotic, erotic and dangerous, Karen brings to mind the kooky princess waifs once played onstage by Julie Harris and on film by Tuesday Weld. Theater Review: David Rabe?s ?Early History of Fire,? at the Acorn Theater 2012-05-01T02:00:00Z

They transcend yet celebrate function, elucidate while mystifying form, and reveal by adorning the female body in sometimes startlingly erotic terms. Art Review: ‘Charles James: Beyond Fashion,’ a Retrospective at the Met 2014-05-08T13:04:04Z

For all their erotic sizzle, his paintings of scenes from Ovid and other classical writers were also data points, of a sort; visual elaborations of historical, mythological and religious narratives. Bartholomeus Spranger’s wild, weird and voluptuous art at the Met

“There are other tropes, like male nudes but not the usual stuff. One day he was posting the erotic drawings of Duncan Grant.” Who Is rg_bunny1: An Instagram Whodunit 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

Close was a household name by 1991, having made her mark in such erotic, mature fare as Dangerous Liaisons and Fatal Attraction. Unseen on screen: the secret movie cameos you might not know about 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

The paper went on to quote a curator at France’s National Archives, who said, “These new documents do not constitute an erotic correspondence, nor even, properly speaking, an amorous one.” Science Fiction, ‘The Decameron’ and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

This time, the duet is with the Weeknd, dark lord of erotic shock and dysfunction, on “Love Me Harder.” Ariana Grande Prepares ‘My Everything’ 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

The novel is a solid example of Icebergian crime fiction: tightly structured, erotic and violent. ‘Street Poison’ review: Why rappers owe a debt to writer Iceberg Slim 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

The New York Times critic Vincent Canby was no less effusive about “The Piano,” which he described as “one of the funniest, most strangely erotic love stories in the recent history of film.” Oscars Rewind: The Last Time Jane Campion and Steven Spielberg Went Head-to-Head 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z

This moves his death into the realm of the sensual, a dangerous suggestion of the erotic confusion of sexual ecstasy and physical annihilation. Bartholomeus Spranger’s wild, weird and voluptuous art at the Met

Hollywood actors and actresses often say that they don’t enjoy shooting sex scenes: That faux, nude intimacy surrounded by a vast camera crew isn’t anywhere near as erotic to shoot as it is to watch. Mindy Kaling says actors lie about hating sex scenes: “We all have this tacit agreement to keep our traps shut about the world’s best job perk” 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

Such erotic encounters in mainstream movies spice things up, but they’re a side attraction. How movies brought polyamory into the mainstream 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z

At one point, he sang along to Next’s casually erotic “Too Close.” Your Old Droog Performs in Public for the First Time 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

A set of complicated poems in Renaissance Italian by Michelangelo, they are intensely erotic and homosexual in their imagery. Benjamin Britten: a top 10 2013-01-09T19:30:01Z

When describing, say, the “throbbing” display of the lavishly decorated argus bird, he delivers a feathery brush of the erotic. Survival of the Prettiest 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

Under her direction, Dakota Johnson played the role of Anastasia Steele for laughs, lending the character an antic awkwardness that merged with her tremulous, gradual erotic curiosity. “Fifty Shades Darker”: Not Even the Sex Has Personality 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

Stepping into different territory was a deeply inspired change of direction that Mr. Costa called “very exciting for me” and described as “romantic and also very erotic.” Special Report: Fashion: Calvin Klein and Marc Jacobs End on a Sensual Note 2011-09-18T10:45:44Z

Mr. Dinwiddie’s powerful voice contains the echo of the great Baptist preachers as well as a breathy rumble that approaches the erotic. | 'Get Mad at Sin!': Andrew Dinwiddie as Jimmy Swaggart at the Chocolate Factory 2010-06-01T21:01:00Z

The original erotic trilogy was told from the perspective of Anastasia Steele, a college student who enters into a relationship with Grey. New 'Fifty Shades' book from Grey's point of view coming this month 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

Quite deliberately featuring the least erotic and most dispassionate nudity imaginable, the Australian director's film tells an elliptical story of a college student who drifts into an escort service. Cannes: Director grabs spotlight, but films stand out 2011-05-19T19:56:12Z

Sometimes it's frank, as in Wu Tsang's luxuriously erotic video dance, enacted on a floor and a bed, reflected in mirrors and watched while lolling on plush cushions. 'Made in L.A.' biennial art survey taps a social undercurrent 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

Feigel is particularly good on the erotic corollary to the blitz: wartime passion. The Love-charm of Bombs by Lara Feigel – review 2013-01-20T09:00:03Z

Eighteenth-century erotic drama about a portrait artist commissioned to paint the picture of a bride-to-be … and falls in love with her subject. The best films of 2020 so far 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

It opens with “Tosca,” in which a man in front of a firing squad is transported back to an erotic encounter. Books to Watch Out For: June 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

“Naked” is more sedate than the lights try to suggest, perhaps because it places considerable emphasis on the medium’s early years, when its erotic potential was, by today’s standards, only intermittently apparent. Art Review: ?Naked Before the Camera? at the Metropolitan Museum 2012-03-29T21:57:05Z

A performer at heart, she knew, as she wrote her publisher in 1948, that her “erotic autobiography” would help her sell books. In Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Diaries, the Private Life of a Celebrity Poet 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

The erotic trilogy continues to sell, topping 70 million copies worldwide, and a movie yet to announce a cast is planned. 'Fifty Shades' musical is hornball heaven 2013-04-02T21:17:11Z

That said, we can all learn from them about the diversity of what intimacy and sexual pleasure look like for all the different people and erotic types out there. From Goop to puppets, how Netflix is offering sex ed for a new age 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

It’s the only music that still excites Dorian, specifically the “Liebestod” aria with its theme of erotic love and death. 'Penny Dreadful' recap: Jaded Dorian seeks new thrills 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

Brandt has been filming tributes from fashion and art luminaries since 2003, many shot on locations that once served as backdrops for Bourdin's sinister and erotic shoots: "Swanky hotels, down-at-heel cafes, deserted cemeteries," says Brandt. Guy Bourdin: Vogue legend 2011-03-21T22:00:01Z

They were Buruma’s charons into a raffish world of erotic cabarets and sex shows and carnival acts. How Life as a Foreigner Helped Shape a Man of Letters 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z

Beckman said the trilogy did not qualify "because the prize's rubric explicitly excludes pornographic and erotic literature". Bad sex awards 2012 shortlist leaves out JK Rowling and EL James 2012-11-20T18:49:55Z

Winterbottom has made a film about a sexual psychopath, where sex and violence have fused and the act of murder is shown with the kind of hyper-realistic tenderness of an erotic scene. The Killer Inside Me: can the violence be justified? 2010-06-12T23:06:00Z

But the aphrodisiac that excites them is made up of many jangling pieces: contempt, power-lust, a protective tenderness and those eternal erotic twins, love and hate. Theater Review: Yael Farber’s ‘Mies Julie,’ at St. Ann’s Warehouse 2012-11-13T03:00:00Z

When she isn’t conspiring to kill Elizabeth, Mary is deriving equal pleasure from a rigorous regimen of erotic stimulation, one aspect of which causes even poker-faced Walsingham to blush. Escape to Another Century! These Historical Novels Are Your Ticket 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z

Shindo's transformation of the tale into an erotic noir tale of psychological horror is brilliantly subversive, and yet in its way intuitive and faithful. Commission us: Sex, death and long grass in Kaneto Shindo's Onibaba 2010-10-15T09:19:00Z

A departure from Modigliani’s more doe-eyed women, it depicts the baroness dressed in a riding habit, one hand on her hip, an erotic expression on her face. Pollock, Richter, Cézanne, Among Those on Auction Block 2013-05-02T22:41:58Z

When Bennett pleads “So won’t you be/ Be my, be my baby?,” she makes erotic yearning seem almost sacred and maternal. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z

An erotic charge runs though her work, and alongside it, the specter of encroaching ruin. Rachel Feinstein Unveils the Darker Side of Fantasyland 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

He noted that, according to the Greek poet Hesiod, “the first divine agent that caused creation was Eros — the spirit of erotic drive or the impulse to create anything.” Myths explain Greece 2012-06-25T15:15:00Z

With an erotic underbelly to prim, caged outfits, Sarah Burton reinforced her position as a worthy successor to the late Mr. McQueen. Fashion Review: A Game of Checkers 2012-10-04T07:21:21Z

He began collecting and researching pre-1970s men’s magazines, erotic photography and racy paperbacks as “another fugitive literature that hasn’t been documented,” he said. Art: Jim Linderman Collects It All, Vintage Sleaze to Baptism Photos 2012-02-12T15:28:58Z

If you were using this font, you could type whatever you liked, and it would come out as a weird, erotic prose poem. Art In Review: ‘CARNAL KNOWLEDGE’: ‘Sex + Philosophy’ 2012-05-31T21:29:07Z

The fragment concludes, euphorically, with an intimate and erotic chant affirming the female body: Street of the Iron Po(e)t, Part XIII 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z

A guy in California runs a factory that makes life-size erotic automata. Anna Kendrick: real girl in la-la land 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

But while his rhymes could be elemental, his zippy, throbbing production — an unending pulse that verged on the erotic — felt like the future. Pop Music Gifts, All Bundled Up 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

But she brings to the role a charisma of moral certainty — not to mention a beautifully clear reading of the verse — that renders the character almost erotic in her withholding. Review: In ‘Measure for Measure,’ Desperately Seeking Solutions in a Problem Play 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z

His rapping, such as it is — very much in the mold of the Streets, or after-hours Drake, or Barry White intros — is almost comically erotic: intense eye contact, gratuitous detail, oily and damp. The Weeknd’s ‘Avatar’ Anthem, and 8 More New Songs 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z

Football fan, how about cutting welfare to your beloved erotic "sport" of... Seattle's Sandra Jackson-Dumont makes art a party 2011-06-08T19:01:07Z

The erotic and horror themes allowed Shindo to approach the instinct of survival from a different angle. Kaneto Shindo – master of Japanese cinema 2012-06-22T21:55:17Z

Jessa’s pleasure in the encounter is genuine — that of revealing a man to himself, particularly in a way that confirms her erotic power over him. Sheila Heti gets sex wrong 2012-09-28T23:30:00Z

Their game of cat and mouse culminates in an erotic chess match. The 25 Best Heist Movies 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

This was a "rather sleazy and erotic gay clip", according to the Russian news website Gazeta.ru. Anonymous defaces website of court that convicted Pussy Riot 2012-08-22T10:51:56Z

And then there’s the little matter of the state police’s bursting in just as the couple have gotten down to erotic business. Review: Hungarians Bare Their Dark Side in ‘Our Secrets’ 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

I like my erotic literature to be beautifully written as well as funny and can't do better than Chaucer. Best literary sex scenes: writers' favourites 2012-07-06T21:55:26Z

Darkly humorous, existential, erotic, trance inducing — these comics wield a rare and innovative power. Psychedelic Comics Like Beautiful Tattoos 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

Now their affair is replayed, with molto brio and some vivid emotional and erotic arpeggios, in Behind the Candelabra. Soderbergh’s Behind the Candelabra: Michael Douglas IS Liberace 2013-05-21T18:32:58Z

Today, extramarital affairs are common, gay marriage is legal in a half-dozen states and the devil has become an erotic spectacle, symbolized by Lady Gaga’s exaggerated persona. America’s new sex toy revolution 2013-03-09T16:00:00Z

As the story gradually reveals itself, it simultaneously becomes more and less clear with every passing moment, before ending on a coldly erotic flourish. The man swallowed whole by a vagina – and more of TV's strangest sex scenes 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

When he puts you on pedestal, it is impossible for him to have an erotic relationship with you, because that would dirty you. Catherine Breillat, legendary provocateur, on her sexual manifesto on film and why she hates porn 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

It creates a directness and a knowingness that is more sensuous than erotic, even when the subject is a slightly drunken bacchante. She Painted Marie Antoinette (and Escaped the Guillotine) 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

He points out that every emergent visual phenomenon is at least partly seeded by erotic taboos. Peter Greenaway: 'I plan to kill myself when I'm 80' 2012-11-15T20:00:08Z

It concluded with a tortured, erotic ballet involving Madonna, another dancer and a corset. Concert review: Madonna at the United Center 2012-09-20T07:42:00Z

Over time, the couple’s bond deepens from a fraught, erotic connection into a meaningful relationship — which is then challenged upon the arrival of the artist’s Christian mother. Edie Falco and Alan Cumming Announced in New Group’s Lineup 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

Their work embraced different forms of narrative, often with psychological or erotic overtones, and new kinds of self-awareness and worldliness. Painting From the 1980s, When Brash Met Flash 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

The fascist aesthetic can be very erotic for the followers. Has Trump wrecked our sex life? "Post-Trump Sex Disorder" is real, says sex therapist 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

It is the best-known sculpture of Surrealism and an implicitly erotic, feminist work, as well as the next step in the history of appropriated objects initiated by Marcel Duchamp. Some Favorite Things Not Hanging on a Wall 2011-12-30T00:11:48Z

Richardson is also to be found doing an erotic dance in skimpy underwear that is remarkable not so much for the quality of its moves — fine as they are — but for its emotional content. Second City's 'South Side' ★★★½ 2011-04-11T20:53:31Z

There are dozens of explicit sexual encounters in the book, but those looking for erotic fiction may be disappointed by Stern’s matter-of-fact descriptions. ‘Swingland’ Offers Peek Into Kinky Sex Underworld 2013-10-17T14:36:25Z

The finale of the erotic trilogy has taken in $78.6 million domestically so far. Box Office: 'Black Panther' Heads to Glory With $235 Million... 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z

But for all of its prettiness, the performance as a whole lacked an essential sensuality, the languid daydreams of the fantasizing faun sounding more G-rated than erotic. Case Scaglione Leads the Philharmonic and Joshua Bell 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

But last summer the singer said he was working on a collection of short stories, an "erotic memoir detailing my experiences with groupies over the last five years". Bloc Party's Kele Okereke writing a book 2011-01-26T10:39:21Z

And many women visit fan-fiction websites where they share and discuss erotic fantasies surrounding their favorite novels, like Fifty Shades of Grey—which itself started out as Twilight fanfiction. The "Fifty Shades of Grey" Movie Won't Arouse You Like the Book Did, According to Science 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

To give us a secluded and depressive Emily Dickinson, these works ignore how clever, energetic, funny and erotic her writing can be. Perspective | ‘Dickinson’ is another example of pop culture trying to liberate Emily Dickinson 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

She vacillates between the cold, righteous Alexis Karenin and the shallow Count Vronsky, and neither man seems adequate to the force of her passion, which is finally less erotic than existential. The Carpetbagger: Box Office Heroines 2012-12-07T15:00:34Z

June M. Reinisch, the director of the Muse Foundation and a vice president at the sex museum, said the foundation hoped eventually to help finance the creation of erotic art. A Tax Deduction for Erotica? The Museum of Sex Favors It 2010-05-03T23:43:00Z

“There is an erotic power to the microphone.” Recording As a Road To Recovery 2011-01-27T22:59:45Z

“Break the Ritual I” series, the experience suggests few events can be as dangerously erotic as the public creation of the self. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

And then the moment is gone and Paul's back to his usual off-putting psychobabble about erotic transference. "In Treatment" recap: Finally, some sexual tension 2010-11-17T13:30:00Z

This affair – almost certainly unconsummated – prompted Wagner's own searching for the musical and dramatic expression of a love that was untrammelled by social convention, that was at once sensual and spiritual, erotic and intellectual. Tristan und Isolde – Wagner's love supreme 2012-12-20T18:00:01Z

But "House of Pleasures" is not an erotic stimulant so much as a slow-moving, increasingly tragic operatic pageant set almost entirely in the brothel. 'House of Pleasures': Life inside a 19th-century Paris brothel 2012-03-08T22:02:07Z

She and her colleagues discovered a suburban Milwaukee home overrun with apocalyptic paintings, clay crowns, spindly sculptures delicately constructed from chicken bones and sweetly erotic photographs of the artist’s wife, Marie. Rescuing Artists of Vision 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

Inside, she gaped at a wall of erotic merchandise, shelves of publications with unprintable titles — and an employee from her school district. Review | One woman’s bold case for breaking the sex-toy taboo 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z

There is also a suspicious number of "erotic thrillers" in Dafoe's back catalogue, including one he recently made with his wife, called Before It Had a Name; the two wrote and starred in it. Willem Dafoe: 'You do your best work when you're scared' 2012-07-04T17:36:06Z

It is an afterglow, that which follows from something else, as one chases one's desire into solid, reasonable things – conversation, friendship, teaching, and in the erotic connections of creativity. Kama Sutra: A Guide to the Art of Pleasure, translated by AND Haskar ? review 2011-03-25T13:00:01Z

By the end of the week he had modeled some 50 objects, “mugs with faces in them; strange, decorative or erotic objects; little animals; all sorts of things,” he said. Saint Clair Cemin on Broadway and at Paul Kasmin Gallery 2012-09-02T01:00:45Z

The margins of his sketchbooks are populated with visions of nightmarish couplings and weirdly erotic subhuman bodies. A life in paintings 2011-03-20T00:08:06Z

On designer Robert Selender’s detailed set, the doings between two dovetailed back porches unfold with poetic realism, wry humor and a surging erotic charge. William Inge's 'Picnic' finds the universal in a small Kansas town 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

The wallpaper shows cigarettes arranged in breastlike shapes and brings out the erotic humor of some of the drawings. Art Review: The Outsider Art Fair Features a Global Vision 2014-05-08T21:52:59Z

Until those moments “The Housemaid” generates intrigue partly by making you guess which movie it is going to become: the cruel psychological thriller, the comedy of upper-crust manners, the feminist fable, the erotic romp. Movie Review: Taking Up With a Maid Might Upset the Family 2011-01-20T22:00:38Z

Love and erotic love are two very different emotions – I would argue they are almost contrary. Why sex and love don’t belong in the same bed 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z

Von Trier's next project is said to follow the erotic life of a woman from infancy to middle age, a subject which might land the director in fresh hot water. Lars von Trier to offer softcore and hardcore versions of Nymphomaniac 2011-08-02T12:43:30Z

But the later drawings, particularly the erotic nudes from his final years, are a different story. Art Review: Celebrating a Painter’s 150th Anniversary 2012-05-24T18:41:19Z

On the pillows themselves, seemingly obscured by simulated pillowcases, are dream and nightmare images: skeletons, dancing animals and nude women, some in erotic poses. In the galleries: To sleep, perchance to dream 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

He was not interested in prettifying the erotic; he analyzed sex not as fantasy but as unvarnished truth. Remembering Charles Aznavour, the Last and Greatest Troubadour 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

And how did the erotic poetry from the Song of Songs end up in a work of Marian devotion? York Early Music festival 2010-07-12T21:30:00Z

The characters in his films were eloquent, addled, obsessively pursuing a line of romantic rhetoric or analyzing the erotic attraction of a teenager's knee. 2010-01-12T04:00:00Z

Then you take the various accouterments to the Champagne room for the least erotic virtual striptease possible. Video Game Review: 14 Years of Waiting Have Come to an End 2011-06-17T22:56:13Z

The restless camera tags alongside him, showing you what he sees, his erotic reveries and yearning. Review: A Boy’s Own Desire in ‘Call Me by Your Name’ 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

Audiences just aren’t buying erotic thrillers the way they used to. Where have all the erotic thrillers gone? 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

Even if Basch’s ogling of the doctor is nauseating, his point about the erotics of medicine has something true in it. “The House of God,” a Book as Sexist as It Was Influential, Gets a Sequel 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z

Even “Watermelon Sugar,” his lightly erotic hit, was dry. The Harry Styles Show (and Some Music) Comes to New York 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z

A series of broad, deep bowls, roughly 2 feet in diameter, roils with erotic energy. Roger Herman ceramics: bold, bawdy and ... is that a little bondage sketched on there? 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

It is also a place of erotic fantasy, and, amazingly, not without humor. ‘Marsden Hartley’s Maine,’ His Muse, First and Last 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

It’s more jarring than erotic; throughout “Binding,” awkward moments and pauses, intentional or not, are part of the choreographic fabric. Dance Review: At P.S. 122?s soloNOVA, Jesse Zaritt and His Demons 2010-05-06T20:54:00Z

Fini painted a number of erotic male nudes that celebrate androgyny and feminine qualities in their subjects. Sex, Surrealism and de Sade: The Forgotten Female Artist Leonor Fini 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z

Hope arrives for Jessa-Lynn in the form of Lucinda Rex, a gallery owner eager to introduce the world to Libby’s wild, erotic art, which provides the book’s most comic moments. ‘Mostly Dead Things’ captures the humor and strangeness of Florida without the easy stereotypes 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z

I did an erotic version of “Phantom of the Opera,” I did erotic versions of Jane Austen’s popular books. Bigfoot, sexy? Erotica author explains 2014-01-23T00:00:00Z

Conceived as a response to “New York in 1979,” an erotic anatomy of the city by the novelist Kathy Acker, this production presents Minsk as a place where sex is a thwarted, warping force. Critic’s Notebook: In London, ‘Minsk, 2011’ and ‘Mercury Fur’ 2012-06-29T22:09:31Z

E L James’s best-seller about the erotic awakening of a young woman and her mysterious billionaire boyfriend is one of 2015’s most anticipated cinematic events. '50 Shades of Grey' To Debut At Berlin Film Festival 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

Those factors contributed to a collapse in erotic movies at the box office, film historians said. ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Leads Weekend Box Office, Stirring Reflection on Sex Films 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z

Here, the comedy has somewhere to go — to old screwballs, for one thing; to centuries of erotic interracial paranoia for another. 2004: ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ and a Country at War With Itself 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

A Tom of Finland drawing of two lusting Adonises hangs next to a similarly perfect Annunciation with its own erotic undercurrent by Simeon Solomon, a little-known Pre-Raphaelite. Drawing, a Cure for the January Blahs 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

The erotic and, to some extent, the scatological are never far beneath the surface in Mr. Koons’s art. ‘Jeff Koons: A Retrospective’ Opens at the Whitney 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

Temple said that she and Passon spent hours talking about the nature of eroticism and about how people often confuse “sexy” and “erotic.” In ‘Little Birds,’ Anaïs Nin Erotica Gets a Revolutionary New Context 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

Rogers is panting ever so gently, and her breathing gives the moment an erotic grace note. Escape With Me Into the Trippy World of 1930s Musicals 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

Films can reveal startling erotic truths about their characters, about us, without exposing so much as a breast or a butt. The Sublime Mike Nichols 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

It was also Polanski who, early in the 1970s, encouraged Tynan to write an erotic movie: an ill-fated, constantly aborted project that drained much of Tynan's energy in the last decade of his life. Kenneth Tynan off stage: the theatre critic's life in film 2010-05-20T20:45:00Z

His watchmaker technique involved cutting images from erotic magazines into narrow strips and gluing them together. Photography in the Raw 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

But more significantly, her success helped create a viable market for countless other novelists writing erotic fiction. Analysis | 11 trends that changed the way we read this decade 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

A new trailer for "Fifty Shades of Grey" has arrived to stoke the ardor of fans of the bestselling erotic novel, and to pique the interest of the uninitiated. 'Fifty Shades of Grey' trailer is more breathy than brazen 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z

James' erotic novels are currently bestsellers in Argentina, Mexico, Spain, Chile and Colombia, among other Spanish-speaking countries. Vargas Llosa says he tried '50 Shades' fiction 2012-11-15T17:48:08Z

Yet, even there, the clipped montage of the moments leading up to Dibs’s erotic experience and fantasy eliminate the banal, even potentially comedic, mechanical aspects that risk breaking or foreclosing the mood. “High Life,” Reviewed: Claire Denis’s Disappointing Journey Into Space 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

My novel, a follow-up to my previous book about Punjabi widows who started an illicit erotic storytelling club, hadn’t progressed much since my son was born. How the "My Favorite Murder" podcast solved my writer's block 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z

Ms. Rampling, now 65, belongs to the short list of cult movie actresses whose combination of exotic beauty, intelligence and fierce independence lends them a particular erotic mystique. | 'Charlotte Rampling: The Look': ?Charlotte Rampling: The Look? ? Review 2011-11-03T21:24:34Z

The artists in this exhibition continue that line of inquiry, frankly depicting their own and others’ bodies in ways that are honest, graphic, elusive, erotic. In ‘Get Naked,’ artists take back control of the female image 2013-09-13T14:01:09Z

The good news is that this portrait of two old friends and their hapless negotiations with their erotic and professional lives, and with each other, bristles with Mr. Feiffer’s inimitable wit. Review: ‘Bernard and Huey’ Has Wit and Personality. Stale Jokes, Too. 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

Holiday’s coyness was a wounded erotic outpouring that emanated from deep within. Music Review: LaChanze at 54 Below 2013-04-18T21:44:31Z

Talk about 50 shades of bombardment. This weekend, the highly anticipated movie “Fifty Shades of Grey,” based on the bestselling erotic novel, opens in theaters. 'Fifty Shades' of hype: List of absurd tie-ins to movie is long 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

People have written erotic romance for hundreds of years, and even before “Fifty Shades” in 2012, erotic romance was a solid and slowly growing market.  “People are at their most vulnerable when they’re naked together”: The rise of erotic romance 2014-01-04T00:00:00Z

In sum, she finished the opening essay of her book with the words: “In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.” The New Sensibility of Susan Sontag & Tom Wolfe: The “dark lady” and the man in white were an unlikely pair, but both were looking to liberate American culture 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z

The movie centers on a sex addict, played by Charlotte Gainsbourg, who recounts her past erotic encounters. Before ‘Fifty Shades Darker’: 10 Kinky Films 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

Ms. Schmidt is also working on an erotic photo book of her boyfriend, Donald Cummings, a frontman for the band the Virgins. Up Close: Raw Energy, With a Girly Side 2011-02-23T21:24:46Z

D’ARCY That sort of erotic energy is very present in their early relationship. ‘House of the Dragon’ Stars on Lust, Forgiveness and Favorite Drinks 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z

But there is a fascinating turn at the end, when the speaker declares, in tears, the presence of a new and unattainable erotic attraction, a young man called Ligurinus. Poem of the week: Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae by Ernest Dowson 2011-03-14T11:48:11Z

A movie that begins as a kinky erotic thriller morphs into an increasingly gory horror film, divided into four acts, each focused on a conquest. Review: ‘Alleluia’ Follows Partners in Crime, but Not Necessarily in Love 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

Something about the hunger and plasticity you have at that time of your life as you encounter an art form that is so raw, joyful, erotic, and pure. The Chaotic Magic of Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z

The shading, and the use of a small amount of watercolor, gives the vegetable all the tactile and erotic allure of one of Edward Weston’s famous photographs of peppers, made a few years later. Yasuo Kuniyoshi retrospective a testament to artist’s vision 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

If this erotic drama doesn’t break new cinematic ground, it also doesn’t cede its conviction in portraying relationships as a matter of serious consideration. ‘The Book of Delights’ Review: A Heady Romance 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

Staring William Hurt and Kathleen Turner, this erotic thriller involves a bomb maker, a murder plot and an illicit affair — all set in coastal Florida. What’s on TV This Week: ‘The Righteous Gemstones’ and ‘Heels’ 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z

Now widely considered a masterpiece of erotic fiction, the novel did much to cement Salter’s literary reputation, if not his mass appeal, in the years leading up to his death in 2015. James Salter’s ‘Blue, Indolent’ Corner of Burgundy 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

Now it has been reimagined in film by Korean director Park Chan-wook, who has defied differences in culture, gender and media to create a complementary classic of erotic cinema. Sarah Waters: ‘The Handmaiden turns pornography into a spectacle – but it's true to my novel' 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z

The Marlborough show, meanwhile, has a swirling vortex of more than 60 “347” etchings, many of them small, blatantly erotic and rendered with a quick, taut, dazzling simplicity of line. Art Review: Picasso Prints at MoMA and Marlborough 2010-04-08T22:17:00Z

Sex scenes are not the primary driver of the series, but they are emphatically erotic, woman-centered and appropriate to the title, crackle with life. Love and loss in L.A.'s Eastside: Just by existing, Tanya Saracho's "Vida" is a political act 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

There’s an expressly erotic dimension to the men’s love for each other, as can be the case with intimate relationships, though not an explicitly carnal one. ‘The Eight Mountains’ Review: A Bond Forged Amid Splendor 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, to 26 Sep RC Male, London This group show is a love letter to the male form, one seemingly dashed off late at night in the grip of erotic fervour. This week's new exhibitions 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z

Mr. LaBruce’s irony only ceases when he shows his characters languishing in the fluidity of their erotic desires. Review: ‘The Misandrists’ Makes a Mockery of Matriarchies and Patriarchies Alike 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

For the first 15 minutes or so of this tale of rampaging erotic impulses and misplaced artistic ambitions, set in both the 1980s and the present, I kept thinking, “How long will this go on?” | 'Burning' : Thomas Bradshaw?s ?Burning? at Acorn Theater - Review 2011-11-15T03:18:36Z

Lots of women who weren’t used to reading erotic novels discovered “Shades of Grey.” Critic?s Notebook: ?Fifty Shades of Grey?: S-and-M Cinderella 2012-04-02T21:58:46Z

Their bond is not explicitly sexual, and both pursue romances with girls, but it has an unmistakable — and, for Lymie, an overwhelming — erotic intensity. In William Maxwell’s Fiction, a Vivid, Varied Tableau of Midwestern Life 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

While the erotic thriller is seen as lowbrow and can play to gender stereotypes, the films’ stylized sheen and over-the-top performances make them fun to watch. Where have all the erotic thrillers gone? 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

And then there was Bad Timing, the apex of Roeg's experiments with fractured storytelling, and by some distance the least erotic of his sexual adventures. Good screen sex is hard to find ... unless you watch a Nicolas Roeg film 2011-03-04T14:10:37Z

In , there’s a lot of sex but it’s not inherent to the plot; this genre may also use less graphic language than erotic romance. “People are at their most vulnerable when they’re naked together”: The rise of erotic romance 2014-01-04T00:00:00Z

Thoughts of mortality darken the erotic daydreams of this Echo Park Rimbaud. 'Romeo and Juliet' is a potent production still finding its way 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

As more and more women are becoming comfortable reading on the new technology, they are becoming more aware of the availability of erotic content and more comfortable purchasing it. Before “Fifty Shades of Grey” 2012-07-14T23:00:00Z

He also makes a red work spanning a corner whose surface is disrupted by a single curve that can be read several ways, most of them erotic. ‘Local History: Castellani, Judd, Stella,’ at Dominique Lévy 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

The bars are used in erotic cleansing rituals that Fust believes keep his disciples physically pure. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

With bare feet, thrashing legs and a wild-child innocence — Sia described it as a “person on the verge of a nervous breakdown” — she seems primal, even awkward, but in no way erotic. For Sia, Dance Is Where the Human and the Weird Intersect 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z

ONE of the most erotic literary novels of the season is a slim South Korean work about a woman who forsakes eating meat. Dendrophilia 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

The centrepiece is Jerome Robbins's rarely seen ballet In The Night, a trio of subtly nuanced romantic, erotic duets set to the music of Chopin. Christmas dance round-up 2012-12-15T00:05:33Z

Rather than gilding the action with erotic ambiguity, however, this just confuses things. Romeo and Juliet ? review 2011-01-09T00:05:42Z

That contrast is sharply shown by what happened to the erotic art of Pompeii when it started to be rediscovered by excavators in the 18th century. Roman erotica lacks a sense of sin 2013-03-26T14:37:18Z

Paparazzi were then a relatively new phenomenon, and so was such brazen adultery by famous movie stars — the Vatican newspaper condemned Taylor and Burton for “erotic vagary.” Television Review: ‘Liz & Dick,’ Starring Lindsay Lohan, on Lifetime 2012-11-23T21:58:09Z

For this group, formed in 2006 and known for its blend of circus, vaudeville, burlesque, dance, ballet, opera and live music, the story has been reimagined into an erotic, mainly all-male production. 6 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

You might remember Dunston Checks In as the film where an ape gives an erotic massage to a middle-aged lady. One for the money: the great actors who slummed it in daft movies 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

“Some Like It Hot” certainly uses her to generate erotic heat, in that almost invisible Orry-Kelly gown and in that steamy make-out scene with Curtis. We Still Like It Hot 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

The film shows “the erotic development of a woman” from birth to age 50, he said, adding that there would be both “hard-core and soft-core versions, and lots and lots of philosophy.” Derailed Director Cites Urge to Entertain 2011-05-20T23:26:44Z

Given stubborn Western stereotypes about repressed Middle Eastern attitudes toward sexuality, many English-speaking readers may be unaware of the strong tradition of Arabic writing on love and the erotic stretching back several millennia. Review | ‘We Wrote in Symbols’ is a groundbreaking collection of Arab women writing about love and lust 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

Previously a lounge and library for erotic books, the large room was given a disco makeover as a new gallery for the Bernstein photos, which were recently published as a book. At the Museum of Sex, a Bar Where You Can Boogie Oogie Oogie 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

They seem honest, which is belt-bustingly erotic in the context of this show. Making a Murderer: another blow to our confidence in America's police 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

It’s typical of this young singer’s output — mournful and woozy and glancingly erotic. Spooky Black and thestand4rd Perform at S.O.B.’s 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

Mr. Kazee manages to find a soulful, quietly erotic energy in his passive character, and his singing voice shifts by stealthy degrees from tuneful plaintiveness to howling pain. Theater Review: ?Once,? With Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti, at Jacobs Theater 2012-03-19T02:00:10Z

But these blasé couplings suggest a climate in which the instinct for emotional self-protection dampens erotic passion. Desiree Akhavan’s ‘Appropriate Behavior’ 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

During the Zoom interview, Trump and Carroll disagreed about whether the novel could accurately be described as “erotic.” Mary Trump and E. Jean Carroll Are Collaborating on a Romance Novel. No Politics Allowed. 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z

Lust said she hoped that the movies on her websites can have an “expansive” effect on people’s sense of the erotic. ‘There’s Not Just One Type of Porn’: Erika Lust’s Alternative Vision 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

I felt as alive and open to the erotic as I have ever been. Modern Love: Wearing Your Heart on Your Skin 2011-07-08T19:05:31Z

The politics are inseparable from the passions; Oshima dramatizes the conjoined societal pathologies of political and erotic repression while also staging thrillingly choreographed displays of the warriors’ martial artistry, the sublimity of their cruelty. “John Wick: Chapter 2” Is Just a Trailer for Chapter 3 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

The board voted 8-7 to give erotic romance its own category. “People are at their most vulnerable when they’re naked together”: The rise of erotic romance 2014-01-04T00:00:00Z

Genet’s novel is an erotic fever dream — obscene, lyrical, outrageous, onanistic. Review: In ‘Genet Porno,’ Yvan Greenberg Leaves Little to the Imagination 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z

Grinstead’s swagger and Gulezian’s vulnerability intersect with all the requisite naturalism, inscrutability and twisted humor, not to mention erotic tension and raw emotion. 'Fool for Love' brings back desert lovers to the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

There’s an erotic charge to it, a desire for the clinging girl but even more so for the boy who has her. How Can I Avoid Feeling Lonely When All My Friends Are Coupled Up? 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z

Atypically, it was an erotic costume drama about Gaul in the time of the Romans, shot in the forests of upstate New York. Joseph Sarno, Director of Sexploitation Films, Dies 2010-05-03T02:14:00Z

They reveal an artist who is making some of his strongest work right now, at times with a decidedly erotic undercurrent. Critic’s Notebook: Ellsworth Kelly, on View in New York 2013-06-03T21:57:28Z

I believe women have a natural gift for erotic intimacy, so if they choose, they can guide their partners along the path to a new, different sexuality. Women and desire: the six ages of sex 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

I think it's true generally of Anglo-Saxon puritan cultures, and that includes Britain – and the rest of the world values erotic capital and therefore you might say it was normal rather than abnormal. Catherine Hakim: charm school marm 2011-08-19T22:01:41Z

To discuss a fascinating, subliminal frisson of erotic connection with Stanwyck? Tony Curtis: a true Hollywood star 2010-09-30T13:11:00Z

Alice in Manhattan, preoccupied with her erotic and intellectual ambitions, and Amar in Baghdad, watching his family’s life being choked by checkpoints, travel restrictions and constant threat. Two Stories Harmonize in Lisa Halliday’s Deft Debut Novel 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

And there’s nothing erotic about “3D Sex and Zen.” | '3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy': Cantonese Erotic Fantasy: 3-D and One Lousy Lover 2011-08-21T22:14:52Z

Schiele’s drive to free himself from Victorian moralism led to his most notorious works: the borderline-pornographic drawings and watercolors of young women in varying states of undress and erotic display. ‘Egon Schiele: Portraits’ at Neue Galerie 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

Similarly, this film fashioned itself as instructive in the tradition of marriage manual books but used erotic hardcore pornography to teach the ins and outs of various sexual techniques. Why the re-release of iconic porn film "Deep Throat" fizzled 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z

But when it comes to bringing their sexuality into the relationship, their own sexual needs, their own erotic needs, their fantasies, I think that's where a lot of couples get really tongue-tied. No, sex shouldn't always be spontaneous. Salon's "Sex Toast" host Ian Kerner explains why 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

It's difficult to maneuver a film into that system that's going to have an erotic charge to it when you're combining it with violence on this level. Resurrecting "Hellraiser" Cenobites as part of "an interrogation of how we negotiate our desires" 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z

To him, design is — or should be — joyous, inclusive and empowering, “an erotic pragmatism” which is “fundamental to the survival of our humanity.” Heroes and Villains in the Pantheon of Design 2010-04-25T13:50:00Z

But it is going to take explicit, detailed instructions in incremental stages, so be patient, make it fun and erotic, and reward him when he gets it right. I love my husband – but his sexual limitations are blighting our marriage 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

Sex involves so much more than penetration, and it is important to learn to be open to a wide variety of erotic connections. For 10 years, I have avoided penetration because of pain 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

The erotic capital one, for example – do good-looking people get promoted faster? The XX Factor: How Working Women Are Creating a New Society by Alison Wolf – review 2013-04-26T08:30:01Z

On the screen she is permitted an erotic latitude not generally available to her contemporaries, in particular Meryl Streep, with whom she is often, if misguidedly, compared. Isabelle Huppert: ‘The Best Way to Please Is Not to Please’ 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

Ghosts have visited her, and human dramas have haunted her, and erotic moments have freed her, and for reasons both altruistic and proud she will not express these stories to me. Toni Morrison and What Our Mothers Couldn’t Say 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

The third and final section grew increasingly strange, as she teased out the erotic properties of inanimate objects: a lamp, a desk, an imagined marble statue. Review: ‘69 positions’ Explores the Sexual Politics in Performance 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

The magazines used these images, which generally reflected the fashion illustration styles of their eras, to enliven their erotic fiction, because creating them was cheaper than hiring models for a shoot. | The Secret History of Homoerotic Illustration 2014-03-27T16:00:16Z

She added, “A lot of it is considered erotic, which brings out the crowds.” Antiques: For Fans of Sendak, the Artist Keeps Giving 2013-08-01T19:05:16Z

The scenes are valedictory and quite erotic, distracting us from the fact that we’re ogling Nazis. “Dapper” and dangerous: The ugly history of glamorizing white nationalism 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z

This sort of talk gives the novel its slightly old-fashioned quality, a kind of period charm, like Brigitte Bardot movies: “Each of those . . . golden sites represents an erotic message.” ‘The Festival of Insignificance,’ by Milan Kundera 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

The Enquirer also boasted of possessing "raunchy messages and erotic selfies" between the two. Jeff Bezos' divorce drama and those awful sexts: Why we can't look away 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

That said, “if you’re not looking to settle in for a serious session of erotic appreciation, a GIF can be a really compelling taste of the action.” GIF porn: The new gonzo? 2012-12-09T00:50:00Z

Some descriptions are erotic: “Rubbing my neck, holding my hand, slipping his fingers in and out of the sleeves and neckline of my shirt. Dipping a few times into the edges of my bra.” Casual sex isn’t just for college kids 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z

And that soundtrack has become part of our collective erotic imagination. How sex got its soundtrack: The X-rated history of “boom-chicka-wah-wah” 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

His erotic energy is purely and pleasurably consensual. Arts & Leisure: How Hugh Jackman?s Two Sides Make Women Swoon 2011-12-08T16:00:00Z

These erotic trysts might seem over the top, but they’re all part of the novel’s corrective impulse, its determination to rebalance the way men and women exist in our political imagination. Review | In Curtis Sittenfeld’s ‘Rodham,’ Hillary doesn’t become a Clinton. And Donald Trump isn’t president. 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z

We walked for an hour, downstairs and upstairs and down again, looking in on card games and interrogations, spying on an erotic pas de deux. ‘Sleep No More’ Awakens After a Long Hibernation 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z

You sense that for Andriessen, there are more important inviolable conversations in contemporary society than those about the erotic account of an incestuous relationship. Indecent exposure 2011-04-07T21:00:03Z

“New York felt more queer then, and because of groups like ACT UP and the Lesbian Avengers and sex as politics, it had an erotic feel that was still very alive.” When we all smelled like teen spirit 2013-04-21T19:00:00Z

Delivering the message that women enjoy sex, too, she treated Mr. Curtis’s living room furniture as an erotic gymnasium, closing in on him as he struggled to read a book. Fran Jeffries, an Actress Who Performed a Sexy Samba in ‘The Pink Panther,’ Dies at 79 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z

Alongside the erotic mystique, she had a strong hausfrau side, which did not show up on film, but she certainly kept her glamour swept and dusted. Non-stop action: why Hollywood’s ageing heroes won’t give up 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

Now it seems, A Journey may be moving into erotic fiction. Tony Blair in running for bad sex award 2010-10-15T10:15:00Z

This was probably spurred by news of EL James picking Social Network producers Michael De Luca and Dana Brunetti for the job of prepping the erotic novel for the big screen. Fifty Shades of Grey: a conversation with Twitter 2012-07-10T17:37:00Z

Along with the step number, Brown choreographed another major dance, which opens Act II and shows Charles surrounded by dancers slipping in and out of erotic moments. How ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ Brought Step to the Met 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z

King updates Machen’s fin-de-siècle setting and erotic subtext, in which a 17-year-old girl is subjected to a primitive lobotomy that allows her to glimpse the terrifying abyss that underlies our world. Book review: ‘Revival,’ by Stephen King

Gospel traditions, erotic need, African American vernacular English and plenty of blank space on well-organized pages come together in this wide-ranging debut poetry collection by an established essayist. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

But the Cannes Film Festival still loves movies that put erotic eruptions on the big screen. Sex and Death at Cannes 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z

I’m not in the same league as Picasso, but I think of his late drawings, which are highly erotic. Ophelia Re-envisioned in ‘Imagining O’ 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z

The merging of erotic and mystical experience might suggest Dante as a poetic model. Poem of the week: Sonnets from the Portuguese, No 43, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2010-05-24T14:28:00Z

But “Forever Tango” — though some of its dancing happens, incidentally, to be good — prefers the clichéd view that tango is grimly smoldering, driven by remorseless destiny and joylessly erotic. Dance Review: ‘Forever Tango’ Incudes ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Alumni 2013-07-15T02:00:01Z

“It makes loud rustling noises. It slips in and out. It leaves an unsightly baggy ring outside you. There is nothing erotic about it.” Let's get it on: the race for the world's best condom 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z

If anything is repressed here it is erotic true love between consenting adults. Art In Review: ‘THE DOUBLE DIRTY DOZEN (& FRIENDS)’ 2012-09-06T20:05:12Z

This was a building Venetians feared during the Second World War, so it was scary, and meaningful, and brave of her to scroll my erotic poem across its face. Light as Touch: Jenny Holzer’s Nighttime Poetry Projections 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

The plot matters only inasmuch as it allows the returning director, Chad Stahelski, to stage his spectacular fight sequences in various stunning Roman locations, where they unfold with an almost erotic brutality. Review: ‘John Wick: Chapter 2,’ a Roman Holiday With Shots Not Sparks 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

A workplace comedy set at an erotic magazine for women, “Minx” revisits the 1970s collisions, confusions and correspondences between women’s liberation and the sexual revolution. Dirty Pictures From a Revolution 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z

It may be tame by today’s standards, but “Danaë” still holds a potent erotic charge. After almost 500 years, Titian’s ‘Danaë’ still makes you blush

It should be very erotic; here, however, the tingles are only intermittent. Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole – review 2013-03-07T22:00:01Z

"A movie about a man who has a somewhat erotic relationship with his car is much better than it has any right to be." Stephen King's "Christine": Honoring the horny hot rod and so-called bad adaptation 40 years on 2023-09-10T04:00:00Z

It’s a psychological erotic thriller, and it works on that level. The Perfect Guy's Director and Producer Explain Why Hollywood's Racial Categorizing Goes Too Far 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

But I confess, I wouldn’t have minded more historical material here — a sign, perhaps, that this critic should not be trusted alone in erotic playgrounds. ‘Funland’ at Museum of Sex Imitates a Carnival Visit 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

As well as Vettriano's best-known paintings, the exhibition will also feature examples of his erotic works such as Game On and The Parlour of Temptation. Major Vettriano retrospective begins 2013-09-20T00:53:18Z

An erotic tone poem to contemporary New York that observes the mating rituals of the youngish and the semi-hip, “30 Beats” jumps around Manhattan, which is filmed to convey an aura of mystery. Movie Review: ‘30 Beats,’ With Condola Rashad and Justin Kirk 2012-07-19T21:34:16Z

It is admittedly hard to credit that Gladys, the boss's secretary, would entertain a union meeting with an erotic dance such as Steam Heat. The Pajama Game – review 2013-04-30T18:00:36Z

The production is never more affecting than when the erotic chemistry that first brought them together flickers into fitful flame. Review: Jeremy Irons and Lesley Manville Lead a Hard-Run ‘Long Day’s Journey’ 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z

The sumptuously erotic black-and-white Herb Ritts ads created a nostalgia for an easy Utopian future, full of startlingly intimate moments — snapshots of seaside romps with surreally beautiful lovers in various stages of undress. Critical Shopper | Calvin Klein: Critical Shopper: What Comes Between Brooke and Her Calvin Kleins? China. 2010-03-24T17:28:00Z

James is at his most erotic in a 1948 ball gown partly inspired by a Georgia O’Keeffe retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in 1946. Art Review: ‘Charles James: Beyond Fashion,’ a Retrospective at the Met 2014-05-08T13:04:04Z

Big Brother and cricket drew you in but – scared of its reputation as a shelter for inept erotic thrillers and Hitler documentaries – you're afraid to explore any further. How to watch Channel 5 2013-07-24T14:49:35Z

“It was an idyll,” Joanie thinks, “her erotic life a dream of the flesh and the mind both.” Review | T.C. Boyle is America’s bard of historical frauds. It’s about time he skewered Timothy Leary. 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z

Today’s conventional wisdom regards Bergman as a dour Scandinavian brooder who specializes in the romantic/erotic lives of neurotic characters and the absence of God. Viewing Ingmar Bergman Through a Glass Less Darkly 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

She didn’t hide from the erotics of looking. The Inclusive Humanity of Alice Neel’s Paintings 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z

The last remnant of the romantic imagination is its cheap first cousin, the erotic imagination. Review: A Baby in a Boat Changes Everything in ‘The Light Between Oceans’ 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

Well, a movie can be not erotic, or anti-erotic, and still worth watching. Dead Sex Kittens: Farewell to Three Icons of Movie Eroticism 2011-02-10T08:10:00Z

God, I hope Kendall sings in front of an audience again, and Greg stammers his way into failing up somehow, and Gerri and Roman’s erotic entanglement deepens and Shiv continues her reign of ecru terror. 10 Things Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2023 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z

“Your disgust response lessens when you’re aroused, so your partner may be more receptive. Break the ice: watch an erotic film, have some wine – find something that gets the ball rolling.” 'Start low, and go slow': how to talk to your partner about sex 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z

The aura of magic in Leonard Cohen’s ballad of erotic sorcery, “Suzanne,” its melody revised so as to be unrecognizable, was deepened. Review: Meshell Ndegeocello Hails Nina Simone 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

Instead, the focus is on Camille’s fascination with self-injury both as a form of escape and as a kind of dark indulgence, which is portrayed as both oddly erotic as well as comforting. Deep cuts: how Sharp Objects offers up a radically dark view of women 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

Cullberg was 83 when Ek created a witty and erotic dance film, titled “Old and Door,” to showcase her undimmed expressive skills. Mats Ek — the Swedish rebel choreographer who’s ‘allergic to pretty’ 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

The images are romantic but far from erotic. Up Close: Interview With David Armstrong, Photographer 2011-08-30T22:50:33Z

As is often the case in Denis’s movies, “High Life” vibrates with low-key erotic energy that can feel exciting, a little dangerous. ‘High Life’ Review: Robert Pattinson Is Lost in Space 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

The way the site originated was as a marketplace where people could buy the tools and assets that are used in the production of 3-D erotic art. So, goblin porn exists 2012-10-26T00:00:00Z

The effect on her, as on us, is astonishingly erotic. Review: In ‘Cost of Living,’ a Familiar Alienation 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

“Behind the Shoes” produced transparent PVC versions of traditional brogues and loafers, each with an erotic embroidery, to be personalized or created to order. 2010-01-16T06:40:00Z

For the mysteriously erotic Putting Down the Prey, currently at the Barbican. Artist of the week 152: Nathalie Djurberg 2011-08-25T12:06:31Z

The characters may be uninhibited — the full-frontal nudity by both women and erect men is plentiful — but "Pleasure" is rarely erotic. "Pleasure" is a gutsy, humane film about porn stardom 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

Long-term relationships that include a strong erotic connection require a fair bit of work. Has working as an escort ruined my chance of a loving relationship? 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

Trans people in particular told her how meaningful it was to see themselves represented in an erotic space. Sexting: do men and women do it differently? 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

Whether he was punching at his sampler or grasping at his own torso in an erotic reverie, you couldn’t take your eyes off him. Live: Arca unsettles and re-invents at Hollywood Forever 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

By that standard, the museum might have to include hundreds, if not thousands, of warning labels, and not just for works made by heterosexual men with an erotic interest in girls. Perspective | This painting might be sexually disturbing. But that’s no reason to take it out of a museum. 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

Mathieu Amalric's decision to cast himself as the lead in this erotic thriller looked, from a distance, a little like self-interest. Cannes 2014: all the films we reviewed – which do you most want to see? 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

First is the excitement or arousal phase in response to kissing, petting or watching erotic movies. The science of sex: what happens to our bodies when we're aroused? 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

It’s incredibly erotic to witness this side of a person become revealed. From “kosher sex” to love maps, 5 tips for keeping your sex life hot 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z

Yet in his hands, it’s subtly erotic, which is exactly what he intended. Skin Deep: A Season?s Roundup of Beauty Choices 2010-09-16T15:17:00Z

It also has the most erotic music, and it was clear that the other novices were feeling those primal urges as well. ‘The Demon’ Review: Obsession and Seduction 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

But she brought to the form a unique and distinctive sensibility, creating erotic maps and topographies of the body, especially the female body. Review | This visionary artist lives on an island. Does that make her insular? 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

In a sex-and-confession scene with Doc, which lasts about six minutes and is shot without a cut, Waterston lends the movie as much human feeling and erotic tension as it’s ever going to bestow. Review: Inherent Vice: Paul Thomas Anderson's Druggy Nights 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z

For years, erotic romance has been the poor orphan sibling of more reputable genres within romantic fiction. “People are at their most vulnerable when they’re naked together”: The rise of erotic romance 2014-01-04T00:00:00Z

There are, however, a number of strategies you could try – for example, using oral or manual techniques, erotic games and role-play, or toys. My younger partner wants five-hour sex sessions and I can’t keep up 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z

The erotic romance in digital form becomes a different kind of cultural object through which the reader’s desires are now hidden rather than immediately exposed. “People are at their most vulnerable when they’re naked together”: The rise of erotic romance 2014-01-04T00:00:00Z

Hollowed-out electric piano chords create space around “Die 4 You,” a ballad about erotic asphyxiation: “Every breath I spend you are collecting.” Perfume Genius Grows Brasher and More Introspective on ‘No Shape’ 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

Let's talk a bit about those six elements of erotic capital. Catherine Hakim: charm school marm 2011-08-19T22:01:41Z

He takes an earthy, borderline erotic approach to the material, eschewing the starchiness and formality of many a period drama to focus on the timeless quality of its attractions and frustrations. The 50 Best Movies on Netflix Right Now 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z

Neruda was known for his erotic, passionate, romantic poetry, particularly Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair. Pablo Neruda's body to be exhumed over Pinochet regime murder claims 2013-04-08T09:00:00Z

The erotic errand becomes another item on her busy mom’s to-do list. A Warning to Women of a Certain Age: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Nightdress 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z

“Zumanity” added an erotic edge; “O” turned the stage into a vast pool. Defiant Showman Demands His ?Wow? 2011-06-03T15:21:47Z

A place of culinary, erotic, conversational, sartorial and so many other pleasures. Books of The Times: ‘Mission to Paris’ by Alan Furst 2012-06-03T22:37:20Z

This is very zeitgeisty, the sense that wealth has an erotic charge of its own and, furthermore, that nobody that rich can possibly be bad. Beauty and the Beast: feminist or fraud? 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

James' massively popular erotic page-turner "Fifty Shades of Grey" is a special case. 'Fifty Shades of Grey' can't work out all its kinks, reviews say 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

“A Night of Kissing”! That particular story begins with this erotic enticement: “You could say it started when I was at work, and he texted me and said, ‘Hey, Babe. Deep kissing, hot wives: Inside the surprisingly non-missionary world of Christian erotica 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

The feeling of watching is sensual, if not erotic—something like the pleasure of plunging your hand into a tub of uncooked rice. Weekly Culture Review: Feist, and Other Refuges from a Tornado of News 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z

They barely qualify as erotic and not at all as pornographic. "Hugh Hefner" and the creation of American manhood 2010-07-30T00:30:00Z

It deals with the absorption of a kingdom into an empire, depicted as a game of erotic manipulation on the part of their respective rulers. Julius Caesar – review 2012-10-02T12:38:45Z

But the truth of the matter is that we still know very little about his erotic life. The Great Charles Dickens Scandal by Michael Slater - review 2012-11-23T22:55:02Z

While recent changes in technology transformed all forms of media, they have been particularly kind to erotic romance. “People are at their most vulnerable when they’re naked together”: The rise of erotic romance 2014-01-04T00:00:00Z

A Japanese term derived from the English phrase “Lolita complex,” lolicon describes a fascination with cartoons of very young-looking girls engaged in varying degrees of erotic behavior. Pharrell Williams’s Lolicon Video 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

Freddie flounced off because Michael kept bringing I was impressed by the efforts of distributor Swipe to get punters in to see Mike Figgis' s erotic thriller, Suspension of Disbelief. Trailer trash 2013-07-27T23:05:26Z

Like Breillat herself, who was 17 when she wrote an erotic novel that by law she was not allowed to read – it was deemed unfit for under-18s. Catherine Breillat: 'I love blood. It's in all my films' 2010-07-15T21:04:00Z

As a troubled adolescent, he stifled erotic urges with video games and listened to strangers beating up and having sex with his drunken mother. Like Riding a Tilt-a-Whirl Manned by a Sadist 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z

Though closely following Wilde's 1891 published novel, Bartlett also draws on an earlier, more explicitly erotic typescript and brings in lines from Wilde's letters and other work. Dublin theatre festival 2012: The Boys of Foley Street; The Picture of Dorian Gray; The Talk of the Town – review 2012-10-06T23:08:02Z

The indoor shots aren’t as compelling, mainly because they have a clear erotic agenda. Art in Review: Nikolay Bakharev 2013-08-08T20:29:12Z

The red coat symbolises the tonal ambiguity, or superimposition of the erotic and the uncanny. Don't Look Now and Roeg's red coat 2011-01-18T20:30:03Z

It could also be worth exploring Tantric techniques, since some are well-designed to prolong erotic sessions in a less performance-oriented fashion. My younger partner wants five-hour sex sessions and I can’t keep up 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z

The erotic and psychological crosscurrents among this foursome occupy the play’s second part, which is its most contrived and least convincing. Review: A ‘Torch Song’ Burning With Emotion Behind the Laughs 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

Greenwell is repeatedly drawn to precarious moments of emotional transition, particularly in regards to romantic attachment and erotic compulsion. Review | In ‘Cleanness,’ Garth Greenwell explores the mysteries of love and pleasure 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

As fluffy as a pair of Hello Kitty bedroom slippers, the film, which opens Friday in New York, takes a soft look at the psychological, socio-cultural and erotic power of vertiginous footwear. ?God Save My Shoes,? a Documentary About High Heels 2012-03-25T01:23:02Z

James, the British author and producer of the erotic "Fifty Shades of Grey" novels and film franchise, knows that her story about an attractive couple engaged in a kinky relationship is very much a fantasy. Kinky 'Fifty Shades' stokes fantasy, not reality, says author 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z

But the romantic or erotic energy is sublimated in the most impeccable cause of all – the war effort. Casablanca: No 2 2010-10-16T10:53:00Z

I browsed shelves filled with erotic reading material and scrutinized accessories I never knew I needed — and might not know what to do with once I brought them home. The Met, they’re not: The oddest museums in New York City 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

But the last duet, the one in the tomb, is even more sensual and erotic. A New Take on Romeo and Juliet’s Ball, Balcony, Bed and Tomb 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

The film version of erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey has premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in Germany. Fifty Shades premieres in Berlin 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile, as Minnie grows closer to Monroe—who, in turn, becomes increasingly audacious in flaunting their erotic connection—she also finds her artistic vocation awakening. Generic Teen Spirit 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

Instead of erotic love, the object of Anna Maria’s desire is Jesus. Movie Review: ‘Paradise: Faith,’ the Second in Ulrich Seidl’s Trilogy 2013-08-22T21:51:23Z

“Mothering Sunday” never conveys the intensity of erotic passion, the ardor of creative ambition or the agony of grief. ‘Mothering Sunday’ Review: Sex, Death and Literature 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

Carols rang with anticipation of new centerfolds; every seasonal greeting whispered the promise of erotic fantasies to come. Jesus never gave Christmas porn 2013-12-23T01:00:00Z

Like the early sex pictures, they are the product of erotic fixation, Mapplethorpe’s late-blooming attraction to muscular black males. Why Mapplethorpe Still Matters 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

An erotic banquet spread itself before him, and he partook. Chuck Berry’s Memoir Grabs You Like a Song 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

In The New York Review of Books, the feminist Ellen Willis said it best, finding the movie “witless, exploitative and about as erotic as a tonsillectomy.” Movie Review: ‘Lovelace,’ About the Star of ‘Deep Throat’ 2013-08-08T22:39:00Z

James Franco, who came up with the film’s story line, plays a college theater director who finds his production of “Macbeth” taking an erotic turn he hadn’t anticipated. What’s on TV Saturday 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z

Eventually, try to add more direct genital or breast contact to increase the erotic charge between you. Since my wife's hysterectomy, our sex life has become non-existent 2013-02-18T09:00:01Z

My idea of an erotic message was a perfumed handwritten letter with curvaceous letters lacing the page, not a texted iPhone flora selfie, or even an analog portrait on my Rolleiflex. The Selfie That Dares to Go There 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z

In a later scene she is the impassive erotic object of curiosity at an elaborate sadomasochistic banquet at which the madam has rented her out for the evening. | 'House of Pleasures': ?House of Pleasures,? Directed by Bertrand Bonello - Review 2011-11-24T20:57:57Z

This season saw a number of young designers self-importantly present the trends — transparency, punk, bold stripes — while making overloaded assertions about the modern woman — strong, erotic, super-feminine. Mr. | Alexander McQueen Wins! 2010-10-06T22:05:00Z

The episode, which is set to air on Conan's TBS show on March 4, features the host visiting a Cuban cigar factory, getting intoxicated at a rum factory and learning to dance the "erotic" rumba. Conan O'Brien reveals details of his Cuba trip to Jon Stewart 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

While Hollywood was reluctant to confront the crisis directly, the lack of knowledge about the HIV virus suddenly made sex seem terrifying, and a string of erotic thrillers enjoyed huge popularity in the late 80s. From Philadelphia to 120 BPM: the changing face of Aids in film 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

Light a candle, put on some sexy music and create the space for a great erotic night. 5 secrets to great sex 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

When I was eight and I made my mother's friends laugh, that was erotic power. Howard Jacobson: 'I've been discovered' 2010-10-13T17:14:00Z

The play’s first, and more startling, act focuses on its characters’ more solitary and secretive erotic practices. Theater Review: Thomas Bradshaw’s ‘Intimacy’ Makes Sex Neighborly 2014-01-30T03:00:17Z

The author of the multimillion-selling erotic "Fifty Shades" trilogy will be signing books July 12 at the San Diego Convention Center. E.L. James to sign books at Comic-Con 2012-06-26T15:54:09Z

The feeling of watching is sensual, if not erotic—akin to the pleasure of extracting a blackhead, or plunging your hand into a tub of uncooked rice. The “Oddly Satisfying” Pleasures of Slime Porn 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

Not only is “Losing Alice” about a female director, but it’s about a female director known for erotic thrillers. In ‘Losing Alice,’ Ayelet Zurer Burns It All Down 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z

A slew of recent horror movies and series, including “Infinity Pool,” “Barbarian,” “Titane” and “The Baby,” have featured erotic lactation, brutalized nipples and demonic nursing. Modern Body Horror Is Turning Breastfeeding Into an Act of Terror 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z

Such is the erotic power of Manhattan real estate that the reunion of heroines and house takes the place of regular romantic wish fulfillment. The Gentrified Ghostbusters of 2016 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

Daniel, a satirist and author of a comedic erotic fiction starring the character of President Donald J. Trump, took official office yesterday. Mayor of Hell, Michigan declares heterosexuality illegal, impeached immediately 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

"Universal had to walk a tightrope by being edgy and erotic without being sleazy and inaccessible," said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at the measurement firm Rentrak. 'Grey' area: For a provocative film, many shades of marketing 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

The Vatican condemned their affair as "erotic vagrancy", an "insult to the nobility of the hearth". Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter: being Burton and Taylor 2013-07-13T08:00:00Z

The rococo, particularly Fragonard's erotic confections, and Mitchell, are two key touchstones in the dense array of historical references Teplin brings into play. Artist of the week 195: Alexis M Teplin 2012-06-21T12:59:44Z

“The classroom was the most erotic place in the world,” he had argued. Mourning With the Help of a Great Dane 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

They won rapturous reviews for the modern erotic bite they gave to a play that dated to 1930. Alan Rickman, actor who brought dynamic menace to ‘Die Hard’ and ‘Harry Potter,’ dies at 69 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

"Last week someone stole my cellphone and sent erotic texts to my dentist." 'The Night Shift,' NBC's new hospital drama, does no harm 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

Pieces like his recent, brilliant "Love," with moves that are oddly both gymnastic and sculptural, pleading and seductive, do read like crazily erotic dreams. Spectrum's Donald Byrd asks everything of his dancers, and his audience 2012-11-28T23:59:27Z

That we don’t, that we have an erotic life too, is a bonus and a blessing. The truth about sex: we are not getting enough 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z

Likewise, Eva Stenram's series entitled pornography/ forest_pics, which plays with found and constructed erotic imagery by digitally removing the naked bodies from the photograph. Les Rencontres d'Arles 2012 – review 2012-07-07T23:06:03Z

Of course, they realize that many people have come to associate them with political and social commentary — not erotic thrills — and that some readers may be disappointed by their new mission. Mary Trump and E. Jean Carroll Are Collaborating on a Romance Novel. No Politics Allowed. 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z

“Push the Sky Away” merges the erotic and the ominous in a cocoon of electronic loops, sparse keyboards, murmured voices, and post-3 a.m. narratives. Album review: Nick Cave, 'Push the Sky Away' 2013-02-18T03:50:00Z

So Mr. Simons shelved some early plans and set about incorporating Mapplethorpe’s photography into his collection: the celebrity portraits as well as the self-portraits, the erotic photos as well as the flowers. Raf Simons Salutes Robert Mapplethorpe, a Fellow Provocateur 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

With his delicate, sensuously flickering touch, lush colors and luminous atmospheres, Watteau anticipated Impressionism, and his dreamlike visions of erotic yearning and melancholic hypersensitivity inspired the 20th-century Surrealists. Watteau’s Peacefully Bittersweet War Scenes 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

The theme of the show is Marie-Claire’s erotic maturity, and she’s gently shepherded along by an array of “sweets,” characters who model various aspects of sexuality, self-confidence and love. This ‘Nutcracker’ celebrates openness, diversity and glitter G-strings 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile she does voice-over moaning for an erotic Japanese video game. | 'Civilization (All You Can Eat): This Porker Has a Beef With the World 2011-06-22T22:00:51Z

McCrory in a lead role is a welcome sight, even if this teeters uncertainly between erotic passion and espionage thriller when her spy drone designer falls for a handsome young Algerian student. This week's new films 2013-04-13T05:00:11Z

In his later years, he ran the erotic publisher Blue Moon Books, although legal troubles left him nearly penniless. First Amendment crusader Barney Rosset dies 2012-02-22T17:03:09Z

Beyond the erotic indulgences of some songs, Prince also created music of surprising subtlety and depth, showing that rock music could evolve from its adolescent impulses to a more wistful sense of maturity. Prince, mysterious, inventive chameleon of music, dies at 57 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

Love, assailed by erotic pressures, does its best to weather the repeated storms. 'Parenthood's' Mae Whitman explores 'The Mystery of Love & Sex' 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

Under normal circumstances, erotic tension is increased when there is an obstacle to acting on it. I am extremely attracted to my brother-in-law - and now we're locked down together 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

Your first scene with Jonathan is almost startlingly erotic, especially for audiences not used to seeing an older couple having sex onscreen. For Glenn Close, the Seventh Nomination Just May Be the Charm 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

The viewer, meanwhile, spins through a whirlwind of psychological horror and erotic implication. ‘Shirley’ Review: A Writer as Scary as Her Stories 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z

As a schoolboy, he discovered he could make money by writing erotic stories and selling them to classmates. He Envisioned a Nightmarish, Dystopian Russia. Now He Fears Living in One. 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z

He also infused many of them with erotic suggestions, accentuating their fleshiness, organic curves and anatomical analogies. Man Ray inserts the human factor into the equation 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

Graphic, instructive, erotic, romantic, disappointing: Bring it all on! Is Any Topic Off Limits When You Write for Teenagers? Maybe Just One 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z

She wants to invest a scholarly project—that of expanding fiction’s formal possibilities—with erotic promise, a sense of liberation. The Deeply Wacky Pleasures of Jane Alison’s “Meander, Spiral, Explode” 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

In keeping with Ms. Frank’s reading, there is, in fact, little sex on display, though there is plenty of erotic charge. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

Yet the real desire that “Fifty Shades of Grey” ultimately sets up isn’t erotic, it’s literary. The Accurate Erotics of “Fifty Shades of Grey” 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

The next U.S. secretary of Agriculture could be Susan Combs, a Texas politician who published a steamy erotic novel in 1990, Politico reports. Will a former romance novelist be the next U.S. secretary of Agriculture? 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

Damon and Bale, both charismatic movie stars, don’t put out quite the same kind of erotic magnetism, and their characters are decidedly not tomcats or horndogs. ‘Ford v Ferrari’ Review: It’s a Gas 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

Fruitmarket Gallery, to 11 Jul Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance And The Camera, London Voyeurism and surveillance suggests a journey through photography fraught with the predatory, erotic charge of stolen moments and kinky revelation. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z

“Let the Sunshine In,” which also stars Binoche, was no less sensual, no less erotic—and, at least in terms of mental life, no less hermetic, in its tunnel view of the Parisian art world. “High Life,” Reviewed: Claire Denis’s Disappointing Journey Into Space 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

Illustrations of the Ramayana and other holy texts, portraits of rajahs with horses and elephants, and love scenes both spiritual and erotic plot the development of Indian aristocratic taste over three tumultuous centuries. ‘Divine Pleasures’ Celebrates the Colors of Desire in Indian Paintings 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

The bonds in this case are comradely rather than erotic, but they are no less deep for that reason, and are stronger than anything else, including patriotism, family loyalty and heterosexual romance. Review: Oscar-Winner Ang Lee’s Super-High-Definition Take on the Iraq War 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

For whatever reason, “Fifty Shades” was the book that tapped into a latent mainstream hunger for erotic romance. “People are at their most vulnerable when they’re naked together”: The rise of erotic romance 2014-01-04T00:00:00Z

All this yields an organic, even erotic, dynamism. Art Review: In ‘Making Pottery Art’ at the Met, Beauty Is Political 2014-02-13T21:07:22Z

Where the first film was all about erotic buildup, the new one is strictly Quick Draw McGraw. “Fifty Shades Darker”: Not Even the Sex Has Personality 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

That’s the one about the youngster who works through his emotional problems by poking out horses’ eyes, and the psychiatrist who secretly envies him his strange erotic rites. It?s Been a Gloomy Summer on New York Stages 2010-07-28T17:57:00Z

It was a simple but erotic gesture — you had to look. | Fashion Review: Turning the Gaze Back to the Clothes 2011-03-04T00:33:54Z

The villas and brothels of Pompeii were full of erotic paintings, sculptures and kinky artefacts. Roman erotica lacks a sense of sin 2013-03-26T14:37:18Z

Hanging nearby are erotic drawings never before exhibited, documenting the artist exploring his bisexuality, as naked lovers and demons intermingle. In life and on canvas, the 'tragic explosions' and L.A. dreamscapes of artist Carlos Almaraz 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z

But the bleak erotic wisdom that suffuses most of her writing is filtered, in “Gigi,” through a gauze of nostalgia for quaint French naughtiness. Good, Clean, Fun: A Revival of “Gigi” 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

I still can’t put my finger on what it is, if not erotic, if not bathetic, if neither joyful nor sad. Sex has as much meaning as words: how Normal People handles intimacy 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z

Yes, the year is 2015, and yet the idea that women might enjoy having their erotic imaginations tickled is still enough to send the hands dashing for a set of pearls to clutch. The 5 most fevered overreactions to “50 Shades of Grey” 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

One of her costumes, including an owl mask, inspired the final scene in the erotic novel “The Story of O,” which Fini would later illustrate. Sex, Surrealism and de Sade: The Forgotten Female Artist Leonor Fini 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z

Moreover, the sexual scenes with Boris are quite erotic — he has strong urges — but his behavior forces the villagers to exorcise his demons, creating an allegory about sin. "You Won't Be Alone" is a sensual and gory shapeshifting film that pushes back at society 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

For the choreography of a scene featuring a sudden sexual reveal, Kelly enthusiastically references one of his favorite movies, the erotic 1995 drama “Showgirls.” Michael R. Jackson on the Soap Opera Origins of ‘White Girl in Danger’ 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z

“The question was,” he recalled, “how do you continue to have an erotic life during an epidemic and not die? Minter’s work offered a strong feminist voice leading the way.” Lush Morsels From an Artist’s Erotic Imagination 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

The narrator — or erotic taskmaster — is a woman known only as “Angelina.” I tried “Siri for sex” so you don’t have to (but maybe you want to anyway) 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z

Platform trainers are hardly A-grade pulling garb, and 2 Become 1 is probably only slightly less erotic than Meat is Murder. The Spice Girls were my gateway drug to feminism 2012-12-13T11:41:11Z

He described Bettauer's journalism, which often celebrated erotic liberation, as pornographic, and gave no indication that he had actually read the novel. Salman Rushdie not first novelist to suffer assassination attempt by someone who hadn’t read book 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z

At first I started writing erotic fiction, but then I was like, “The things that I’m doing are actually more exciting than fiction.” “Porn stars are the gladiators of the entertainment industry” 2014-03-15T23:00:00Z

Intensely erotic, brimming with tension, sublime on the sentence level and pleasurably painful in its articulation of both yearning and ambivalence, “Cleanness” is more than a beautiful closing, perhaps, to the narrator’s Sofia story. 7 must-read novels to kick off 2020 right 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

A spectacle of songs and sex that is at once zany and erotic, Underwater Love puts an unforgettable new spin on the Japanese tradition of softcore “pink” films. ArtsBeat: Hello, Ozzy: Tribeca Lineup Adds Ozzy Osbourne and Carol Channing Documentaries 2011-03-14T16:00:16Z

AB: There's another aspect of Rodin we haven't mentioned, that is his erotic side. Henry Moore talks about Rodin's irresistible influence – from the archive 2013-03-23T07:59:02Z

Though there is inevitably a sensuality in a show that involves lithe-bodied young people, erotic content is kept to a minimum, probably for the best, since the team consists of six men and one woman. | 'Traces': Acrobats Meet Skateboards and Basketballs (Watch Out!) 2011-08-10T02:01:08Z

This exhibition only makes one slip when it claims his flower photographs are his most "erotic" works. Robert Mapplethorpe: sexual terrorist 2010-09-21T21:00:00Z

Differing attitudes about the erotic in Eastern and Western cultures and the debasement of sex in modern commerce are certainly worth further investigation. Art Review: Rubin Museum Show of Contemporary Tibetans 2010-08-19T21:54:00Z

That tweak, as executed here, was no glib nod to sexual politics, but an intriguing reading of the erotic confusions that swirl within the characters and throughout this entire opera. Juilliard Stages an Orpheus Rarity From Opera’s Early Days 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

A new study of almost 6000 single people finds that while most would prefer their erotic texts or photos remain private, almost a quarter of such communiques are shared. You Have a 1-in-4 Chance of Having your Sexts Shared 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

Started in 1553 the paintings are studies in erotic passion and its effect on destiny and were designed to arouse the senses and flatter the erudition of his regal patron. Titian: His Life by Sheila Hale – review 2012-07-06T21:55:13Z

But they are also secure in the fact that Zola's salaciously erotic 19th century novel has never gone out of fashion. Long Beach Opera puts its own spin on 'Thérèse Raquin' 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z

Their scenes together convey an astonishing tenderness, along with an explicitness that lends their fumbling erotic exploration a healthy dash of realism. ‘Gabrielle,’ About a Disabled Woman’s Joys and Travails 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

The core erotic image is incorporation: being "open to", "slipping into", then "lost in" each other. Love poems: writers choose their favourites for Valentine's Day 2012-02-10T22:52:01Z

After her father’s suicide, Jessa-Lynn takes over the family taxidermy business and her mother makes erotic art from the shop’s inventory of animal parts. 50 notable works of fiction in 2019 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

Sonnier’s works, fashioned from cheesecloth, silk, wire mesh, latex or the neon that became his signature medium, were especially supple and erotic, often made on the spot in the galleries where they were shown. | The Sensual, Suggestive Appeal of Keith Sonnier’s Neon Sculptures 2014-01-27T22:54:42Z

AP: A few years ago, you said you would write an erotic novel, but only after your mother passed away. Isabel Allende talks about migration, life, aging and love 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z

The most striking development may be the yawning gray area that has opened up involving remote infidelity, where online connections encourage emotional and erotic attachments even when two people have never actually met. I’m cheating on you right now 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

She has adoring, erotic and complaining things to say about him, all in the kind of detail that suggests years of analysis. Review: In Carly Simon’s Memoir, Few Secrets Left Untold 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

The Cornwells’ coup this time was to secure Park, a celebrated art-house director known for films like the violent revenge fantasy “Oldboy” and the erotic thriller “The Handmaiden” who has never previously worked in television. Park Chan-wook Brings His Art-House Eye to ‘The Little Drummer Girl’ 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

I find The Story of O deeply erotic precisely because the woman at the centre of it holds all the power, even though she seems the one most cruelly treated. Best literary sex scenes: writers' favourites 2012-07-06T21:55:26Z

Exuberant and tender, with an eye toward the erotic, they entice him until he is in step with the group. Review: Remaking the Ballets Russes, With a Queer Spin 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z

She may respond best to manual or oral strokes, or she may enjoy role-playing, erotic talk or just holding hands. I’m worried that my erections are not adequate 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z

His drawings at James Hyman Gallery mix Disney-like cartoons, erotic longings, intimate portraiture, notes for mad projects and Marxist revolutionary dreams. Colin Self: rebel with a caustic wit 2010-12-09T13:44:00Z

But the darker tug of erotic tension and the fear of self-revelation is also finely observed in the aggressive, thrashing heft of the choreography. Earthfall ? review 2012-02-13T17:45:27Z

It is erotic and provocative, depicting Lil Nas X sensually licked by a mythical character in the Garden of Eden and later giving the devil a lap dance. Lil Nas X’s dance with the devil evokes tradition of resisting, mocking religious demonization 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z

Like these characters’ lives, their erotic encounters are nasty, brutish and short. Review: In ‘Thérèse Raquin,’ Keira Knightley as a Baleful Adulteress 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

His art — subversive, erotic drawings of hyper-muscular men — offered an escape. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Malcolm X’ and ‘Tom of Finland’ 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z