Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!susie From: susie@uwmacc.UUCP (sue brunkow) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Sex in the movies Message-ID: <769@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 13:38:41 EST Article-I.D.: uwmacc.769 Posted: Thu Mar 7 13:38:41 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Mar-85 07:26:18 EST References: <335@water.UUCP> <3850002@csd2.UUCP> Reply-To: susie@uwmacc.UUCP (sue brunkow) Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 19 Summary: In article <3850002@csd2.UUCP> dimitrov@csd2.UUCP (Isaac Dimitrovsky) writes: >[] > >>This beats the oldies, where sex was shown as two cigarets in an ash tray. > >Actually, my favorite depiction of sex in old movies occurs in a few Alfred >Hitchcock movies whose names I can't remember right now. You see a >couple on a train kissing, followed by a fade to a shot of the engine >at the front of the train blasting steam. (I always wondered, if they >showed several blasts of steam, did that indicate multiple orgasms?) My favorite is at the end of 'North By Northwest', where Cary Grant andkiss on the train, and the train is shown entering a tunnel. I almost fell on the floor laughing, but nobody else seemed to think it was THAT funny. Sue Brunkow UW - Madison