BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: SEX

FAMILY PLANNING
__PLEASE USE REAR ENTRANCE
                sign at Barnstable (England)
                    HEALTH CARE CENTRE


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"I'm Catholic. My mother and I were unpacking and
she found my diaphragm. I had to tell her it was a
bathing cap for my cat."
                         Liz Winstead
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Stridulate (STRIH-jə-lait) Part of Speech Verb

Of an insect, especially a male cricket or grasshopper) Make a shrill sound by rubbing the legs, wings, or other  body parts. 

Reminds me of my the sexual techniques of members of my college fraternity,
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ON READING D.H. LAWRENCE'S WOMEN IN LOVE

"I had read it at eighteen. I kept no diary that year, but I had no need of one to remind me that was the year I lost my virginity. It was all too apparent from the comments I wrote in my Viking edition (page 18: 'Violence substitute
for sex'; page 154: Sexual pain' ; page 159:  'Sexual power';
page 158: 'Sex' . "

Anne Fadiman. Ex Libfris: Confessions of a Common Reader (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998)

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MEL BROOKS & DOING IT

"We all know girls who do it. But if you ask them to do it,
they say no. Why? Because they want to be proper. Finally, after thirteen years of courtship and dates and so on, one night they get drunk and they do it. And after they've done it, that's all they want to do. Now they're fallen, now they're disgraced, and all they want to do is to do it. You say, 'Let's have a cup of tea.' 'No, let's do it.' 'Let's go to the cinema." 'No, I'd rather do it.'"

Mel Brooks. Playboy Interview (February 1975)
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ON LIP SYNCHING

“Osculate” originates from the Latin verb “osculari” (“to kiss”) and the noun “osculum” (“little mouth or kiss”). While a kiss between the happily married couple is often considered the romantic culmination of a modern wedding ceremony, ancient Romans viewed the practice more practically. Since literacy was not as widespread in this time, and historians speculate a kiss was a symbol of a mutual agreement, this action is likely what inspired the phrase “sealed with a kiss.” 

WORD DAILY (JUNE 27, 2024)
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ENVYING MALE KALUTAS!

"Some animal species are also semelparous, for example, Pacific salmon die after spawning. Male kalutas, Australian marsupials, are also semelparous. As the NYT describes it: “During these brief, frenzied breeding seasons, male kalutas mate with several females -- for up to 14 hours at a time -- until they succumb to exhaustion and die.” Talk about going out with a bang!"

Anu Garg. Wordsmith (August 14, 2024)
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SEX & THEATER

Once when I discussed sex with a beautiful actress, she told me how frightening it was, at least the first time. 'Yes,' I said, recalling my stage experiences, 'It's like New Haven, Philadelphia, and then New York."

Oscar Levant. The Unimportance of Being Oscar (Toronto: Longmans Canada, 1968)
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ALIMONY SING ALONG

Sex & love,
Love & sex,
Remind me of
Lawyers & my ex.

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from the poet J.R. Solonche

My favorite Delmore (SCHWARTZ) story is the time he chased a woman around his room shouting,”I’m a poet. I’ve got a big cock.”
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"The man and woman make love, attain climax, fall separate. Then she whispers, "I'll tell you who I was thinking of if you tell me who you were thinking of."
                                 Gore Vidal
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HOW TO INJURE YOUR NOSE

In the movie Chinatown, Jack Nicholson's character J.J.Gittes is asked by a police detective how he injured his (prominently bandaged) nose.   His answer was:

A -- I stuck it where it didn't belong
B -- A sex-starved Eskimo rubbed too hard
C -- I was auditioning to play of Pinocchio
D -- Your wife crossed her legs

You no doubt know the right answer.
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O FLESH, FLESH

"O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified" 
                 Romeo and Juliet, act 2, scene 4

Up to my eyeballs
With red herrings.
My imagination flounders,
So many ideas playing me
Like a ocean of rorshach tests
With secret answers,
Small fish in nets.

Fly fisherpersons 
Allow their lines go slack,
Then taut, like a poem in progress.

Trout-eyed, I am hooked but good
By women & poetry:
O  my sole! My soul
As for Love
How eagerly I enter that stream.

Louis Phillips