Sex In Cinema

Sex in CinemaIs Sex Necessary? asked humorists James Thurber and E. B. White in the title of a jaunty book written at the tag end of the Roaring Twenties. The answer was breezily affirmative, but hordes of uptight moralists might argue their conclusion today. With conservatism and surveillance rampant across the land, Congressional antismut crusaders and social critics are seeing blue not just on screen but in song lyrics, art exhibitions and the scripts of TV series.Little wonder, then, that 19...