Everything you always wanted to know about sex but never dared to ask

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Movie
German title Everything you always wanted to know about sex but never dared to ask
Original title Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask
Country of production United States
original language English
Italian
Publishing year 1972
length 85 minutes
Age rating FSK 18 (cinema) / 16 (VHS) / 12 (DVD)
Rod
Director Woody Allen
script Woody Allen
after
David Reuben
production Jack Brodsky
Charles H. Joffe
Jack Rollins
music Mundell Lowe
camera David M. Walsh
cut Eric Albertson
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What you always wanted to know about sex, but were afraid to ask, is a 1972 film by Woody Allen . The episode film is a satirical film adaptation of the sex education book of the same name by David Reuben. Allen tries to answer the questions asked in the book chapters in seven episodes.

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Do aphrodisiacs work?

A jester who no longer amuses his master, the king, has to fear for his life because of this. As he ponders his future, his dead father appears to him in a vision reminiscent of Hamlet , who gives him the order to sleep with the queen.

To get her to do so, he instills an aphrodisiac , which also works. However, the queen's chastity belt prevents him from sleeping with her. When he cannot open it and his hand is caught in his belt, he is finally discovered by the king and executed.

What is sodomy?

One day, the doctor Doug Ross receives a visit from the Armenian shepherd Milos Stavros, who tells him that he fell in love with Daisy, one of his animals, and had sex with him. But now Daisy's love has died out and the doctor should persuade the sheep well. Ross initially dismisses the whole thing as a fantasy and belonging to the field of psychiatry. But when he sees the sheep, he falls in love with the animal . He rents a hotel room and hides his wife's relationship with Daisy.

But when the matter comes out one day, he is convicted of adultery and seduction of minors (Daisy was not yet of legal age) and loses his license to practice medicine . He moves to another town with Daisy and works as a waiter. However, the Armenian shepherd tracks him down and takes Daisy back home with him. The breakup throws Doug off track and he indulges in wool detergent.

Why do some women struggle to orgasm?

The newly married Italian Fabrizio discovers on their wedding night that his wife Gina is apparently frigid . The difficulties persist, all efforts and seductive skills do not help. In his perplexity, Fabrizio turns to various friends, none of whom can help him. Even the pastor has no advice.

One day the problem solves itself when Gina notices that she is getting an irrepressible desire for sex in an art gallery . Fabrizio initially has scruples, but quickly gives up when he realizes that the attraction of being seen arouses his wife. From now on, the two of them sleep together in every imaginable public place, whether in a restaurant, at receptions or even in the Vatican, always irritated and driven by the danger of being discovered.

Are Transvestites Gay?

The married couple Sam and Tess are invited to their daughter's future in-laws. There Sam pretends to go to the toilet, but actually goes into the bedroom and puts on the clothes of the lady of the house. He enjoys wearing feminine clothes. When the landlord approaches, however, Sam climbs out the window to avoid being spotted. On the street in front of the house, however, he gets into a commotion when a thief steals his handbag. Sam tries desperately to hide his real gender by holding a handkerchief in front of his mustache. However, when the police arrive and his wife and hosts are also interested in the scene, his identity is revealed.

In the evening in the marital bed, Tess expresses understanding and says that she loves him anyway, but complains that Sam has not told her about his "illness", as she calls it.

What is perversion?

The viewer witnesses an advertisement in which a homosexual couple advertises a hair care product for men. The manufacturer of this product is in turn sponsoring a guessing program entitled What am I a pervert ? , in which a panel of four celebrities has to guess a guest's sexual preferences. The first candidate, Bernard Jaffe, has a penchant for exposing himself on the subway , which celebrities fail to guess.

In the second part, the winner of a spectator game has the opportunity to act out his perversion in front of the camera. On today's show, it's a rabbi named Chaim Baumel who loves to be tied up. A lady from the panel ties the rabbi up and an assistant whips him while his wife eats pork in front of him .

Are the results of the doctors and clinics that conduct sex research exactly accurate?

The young scientist Victor Shakapopulis and the journalist Helen are together to the public-shy sex researcher Dr. Bernardo on the go. Victor is supposed to be his new assistant, Helen wants to interview him. When they arrive, the door is opened for them by the hunchbacked servant Igor, whose deformities are the result of an experiment in which Dr. Bernardo was given a four hour orgasm.

They quickly find out that Dr. Bernardo is a madman who wants to abuse her for his absurd experiments. When they were able to escape, some of the equipment broke, causing a basin of silicone that was intended to be used to enlarge a test subject's breasts to overflow.

Victor and Helen escape, the doctor's villa goes up in flames. However, a single gigantic female breast made from the silicone escapes that pursues them both. After a few fatalities, either crushed by the chest or drowned in milk, Victor and the local sheriff are able to capture the breast, which the young researcher estimates is an X cup, with an oversized bra. The danger is averted, but the question of where the counterpart is, because breasts usually come in pairs.

What happens during ejaculation?

During a romantic dinner, activities are routinely coordinated in the man's brain. The workers in the stomach are made to digest, eyes and ears are ordered to contact. As sexual intercourse begins, things get more hectic. Difficulties arise when the pleasure center is not working enough and therefore the workers in the groin cannot get an adequate erection.

Meanwhile, the sperm are eagerly awaiting the climax of their training. Only a specimen wearing black horn-rimmed glasses is scared because it doesn't know what's going to happen. But its colleagues remind it of its oath and it fits into its fate.

After an incident with a pastor who had tied his conscience and triggered the guilt reflex, it finally came to fruition. The sperm jump off and the technicians are popping the champagne corks in the brain when a repetition of the action becomes apparent.

backgrounds

Allen's film is a parodic processing of the sexology book of the same name, published in 1969 and popular at the time, by David Reuben, an American doctor. The book had a strong influence on sex education in the United States, although Reuben took rather conservative views in his book, for example calling homosexuality a disease. The book was nevertheless translated into 54 languages ​​and sold in 52 countries with a total circulation of over 150 million copies.

In addition, Allen's film is also a collection of quotes and tributes to earlier films or other directors. So the completely held in Italian third episode, which was not subtitled theatrical release, a tribute to the films of Michelangelo Antonioni , the episode about the mad scientist as a satire of horror - and science fiction - B-movies of the 1950s Years, and the black-and-white episode about the perversity is a parody of the long-popular television program What's my Line? , the role model for What am I? with Robert Lembke .

Trivia

  • The film opened in US cinemas on August 6, 1972, in German cinemas on January 31, 1973 and in Austrian cinemas in March 1973. Production costs amounted to about 2 million US dollars , the film played in the cinemas of US dollars approximately 18 million one.
  • Allen had an eighth chapter for the film called What Makes a Man Homosexual? filmed, in which he portrayed a spider, and is eaten by Louise Lasser as a black widow after making love. The sequence was deleted because Allen could not find an adequate ending.
  • The name of Woody Allen's character in the penultimate chapter, Victor Shakapopulis, is the same as he was in What's New, Pussy? wore.
  • Woody Allen was dubbed for the German theatrical release by Harald Juhnke . A new dubbed version was created for a television broadcast on ZDF in 1987, in which Allen's regular speaker Wolfgang Draeger came into play.

Reviews

“Partly garish, partly enigmatic parodic film satire on the sex wave of the early 1970s. In seven 'chapters' full of biting mockery, the director exposes the then fashionable themes and complexes by exaggerating them into monstrousness, which is persevered with ruthless consistency. The popular scientific banalities of the wave of Enlightenment are caricatured with relish; at the same time there are amusing genre persiflacs. "

- Lexicon of International Films

“Woody Allen's parody of the wave of enlightenment in the 70s is still entertaining after about 40 years and, despite some foolishness, sometimes hilarious. The episodes are all continuously fun and convince with their original ideas and lovingly designed characters. Absolutely worth seeing, especially for everyone who has always felt strangely drawn to sheep or who really wanted to know what is really going on with sperm when they are needed. "

- MovieMaze.de

literature

  • David Reuben: Everything you always wanted to know about sex, but haven't dared to ask . Droemer Knaur, Munich.

swell

  1. ↑ Everything you always wanted to know about sex, but haven't dared to ask , start dates in different countries
  2. ↑ Everything you always wanted to know about sex but hadn't dared ask , income
  3. ^ Lexicon of International Films , Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt 1995, Vol. V - Z, p. 6317.
  4. ↑ MovieMaze.de: Film review of What you always wanted to know about sex, but haven't dared to ask

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