GRGR: Pynchon's sex scenes

[Doug Millison]

"The Lifestyle," which opens today at the Pioneer Theater, includes one
brief hard-core scene, but it is not an exploitation film. In its blunt
deglamorization of sexual license, it is more like the antidote to Stanley
Kubrick's elegant, fearful erotic dream, "Eyes Wide Shut." In Kubrick's
Freud-drenched vision of sexual transgression, group sex within the upper
class was portrayed as the ultimate taboo, a secretive nightmarish dance
with the Devil. Here it is an indoor sport played by married middle-class
couples on Saturday night in living rooms decked out with disco balls and
Japanese lanterns. "
http://www.nytimes.com/library/film/031600suburbs-film-review.html

>From "dance with the Devil" to banal wife-swapping -- where along that arc
do Pynchon's sex scenes lie?




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