The erotic thriller was practically invented to hold together audiences’s ugly, contradictory feelings about sex, bringing the craving for erotic encounter into conflict with the looming specter of AIDs and the perceived threat of empowered women.
~ Alexandra Kleeman via The New York Times

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In the television world, babies are a convenient way to reinvigorate stale interpersonal dynamics, or a point of narrative pressure that forces characters to make dramatic choices.
~ Alexandra Kleeman via The New York Times

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Not much is known about the inner life of mushrooms, but we can guess at the presence of a sort of subterranean sociality from the extensive networks of underground filaments that link individual organisms to a vast community of plants, tree roots and other fungi.
~ Alexandra Kleeman via The New York Times

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Sexual desire encompasses desires for power, belonging, advantage and disruption that we would not typically think of as erotic.
~ Alexandra Kleeman via The New York Times

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Over the last several years, the matter of onscreen sex in the movies has been a continuing source of anxiety for audiences, critics and filmmakers who feel that desire has been shunted offscreen in favor of more chaste fare.
~ Alexandra Kleeman via The New York Times

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Sex cannot be separated from the malignancy of the social structures that surround it.
~ Alexandra Kleeman via The New York Times

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