Amy's Orgasm

"...possessed of “great tits,” Davis comes off like a female Myles Berkowitz (20 Dates) -- jealous, possessive, narcissistic, prudish,..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Basic Instinct 2

This wholly unwarranted sequel is so outrageously preposterous (and chockablock with bad dialogue) that the end result achieves a basement grandeur of near-epic proportions.

"...but they've countered with some injudiciously placed dialogue (the female orgasm gets, shall we say, something of an oral..."

March 31, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Feel-Good Generations

There's a reason scholar Rachel Maines, the author of The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction has survived the various assualts on her intellectual freedom: She's smart, she's funny, and she also "dances circles around reactionary clod-like thinking."

"...episode, Maines dedicates her first book, The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction (Johns Hopkins..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Books Feature by Lindsey Lane

The Big O? Oh, No.

Female Orgasm panel not exactly inclusive

"...Nicole Daedone, founder of OM (orgasmic meditation), wants to show you the way. That way,..."

March 11, 2013 SXSW Post by Kate X Messer

The Conviction

"...Freudian and Judeo-Christian tenets that regard the nature of female sexuality as passive and only unleashed by the desire..."

Nov. 18, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Luv Doc: Willing

Western Europeans through most of the last few thousand years haven't been very enthusiastic bathers

"...a pretty revolutionary idea in Western culture, where the female orgasm was, for several centuries, completely misunderstood...."

Feb. 17, 2017 Column by The Luv Doc

Postmarks

Texas Our Texas loves Texas; Neighbors for Neighbors hate strip-mining; Justin B. Andrews returns; and other delighted and dismayed letters from readers.

"...Delightful Orgasm Review..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Column

Hysteria

Good vibrations flow from this fictional story about the invention of the vibrator in Victorian England; Maggie Gyllenhaal stars.

"...has no name," 19th century medical practitioners called it "female hysteria," a condition with symptoms that included listlessness, anxiety,..."

June 15, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Towelhead

Alan Ball's film is guaranteed to discomfit and dismay with its dangerous plunge into an adolescent girl's discovery of sexuality and self-identity.

"...in her direction). She also innocently experiences her first orgasm while perusing them, after which she becomes intrigued by..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Shirley Valentine

Only one woman in Austin could play Shirley Valentine with the charismatic hold of a storyteller, and that would be Bernadette Nason, who stars in Onstage Theatre Company's production

"...and whom she dubs Christopher Columbus for rediscovering her orgasm. By the end of the play, she has groped..."

July 14, 2006 Arts Review by Patti Hadad

Below Her Mouth: By, For, and About Women

aGLIFF screens April Mullen's raunchy lesbian romance

"...produced by Melissa Coghlan – was created by an all-female production crew. According to Mullen, curating a women-only crew..."

April 25, 2017 Qmmunity Post by Maddox Price

Electrelane

"...post-riot grrrl era. This is a fortunate place for female artists to be, because the focus is on music..."

March 19, 2004 Music Review by Melanie Haupt

Warm Water Under a Red Bridge

In their charmingly bizarre manner, Shohei Imamura and his cast of quirky creatures remind us that a woman in heat is a beautiful thing.

"...the same name is a humorous salute to the female orgasm. In a peculiar tone sure to furrow brows..."

July 18, 2003 Screens Review by Courtney Fitzgerald

After a Fashion

What do you get when you skewer a Spears? And why has it taken Austin so long to get a Gay Pride parade???

"...Kim Cattrall's sex manual Satisfaction: The Art of the Female Orgasm. She became friends with Miss Cattrall on the..."

May 31, 2002 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

The Big Cheese

South by Southwest 1997

"...a dense mass around an extraordinarily loud and theatrical female orgasm, punctuated by stuttering bass sequences. Coyne closed his..."

March 21, 1997 Music Feature

The Overnight

A good cast and a provocative setup still can't make this indie rom-com soar

"...engages in coitus interruptus to individually bring themselves to orgasm simply because it’s become the most efficient way to..."

June 26, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Shadow of the Vampire

"...Max Schreck. The whole picture is one big Stanislavsky orgasm, actually, and your enjoyment of the proceedings is going..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Fantastic and Utterly Disreputable History of the Bevy of Sin Known as Guy Town

Before downtown Austin had the Warehouse District, it had the Whorehouse District: a notorious neighborhood of brothels and fandango houses called Guy Town.

"...were about 100 prostitutes, or fully 5% of Austin's female population age 18-44. This part of Austin provided them..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature by Ian Quigley

Women Who Steal

Austin Playhouse's revival takes this female comedy beyond Thelma-and-Louise territory

"...derivative Thelma & Louise-style narratives of vaguely criminal, middle-aged female empowerment. The oppressively formulaic scenario – usually involving two..."

Sept. 7, 2007 Arts Review by Iris Brooks

Saturday Picks

SXSW Music Fest preview guide

"...to death, with new album Flat-Pack Philosophy dialing down "Orgasm Addict" into "Reconciliation" mode. – Darcie Stevens Pink Nasty..."

March 16, 2007 Music Feature

Warrior Voices

With a Spanish-language production of The Vagina Monologues, Austin Latinas are making themselves heard

"...at) infantilizing or shame-inducing language about sex and the female body. Being able to do so in one's native..."

Feb. 16, 2007 Arts Feature by Belinda Acosta

Better Living Through Porno

... or What I Learned as an Adult Industry Worker

"...Female Ejaculation The thought behind this genre is that the..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Features Feature by Kelly Petrash

The AggreGAYtor: November 8

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...one but Nate Silver was sure would end in orgasm. First up, at Obama’s victory party, a lesbian couple..."

Nov. 8, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

American Hypocrisy Revealed in The Misogynists

“Self-righteous, smug and wicked.” Onur Tukel pulls no punches in this extended Q&A

"...to feel like she was being heroic, the marginalized female standing up to the tyrannically corporate bully. But I..."

Jan. 24, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Five Films Not to Miss at Fantastic Fest

2018 is the year of the woman

"...over the rape-revenge narrative, which makes room for the female leads to have complex trauma in these dark and..."

Sept. 21, 2018 Screens Feature by Jenny Nulf

Unscripted: Sexy Future Space Lady

What says summer fun more than out-of-this-world lovin' with a Sexy Future Space Lady? Especially improvised!

"...a favor, and defeating a pleasure machine designed to orgasm her to death. The star's star turn is what..."

May 18, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

"Pillow" Talk

Terri Thomas on what's behind the sex in her Big Medium art show

"...was reading. This set me on the trajectory of female representations and an interest in third-wave feminism. Pertaining to..."

June 5, 2014 Arts Post by Seth Orion Schwaiger

Response to the Number Nine

Honorable Mention

"...it removes me from life the same way faking orgasm removes the possibility that I might ever actually come...."

Jan. 31, 2003 Books Feature by Rebecca Beegle

Steve Almond's Existential Pleasures

"...with Dave's ability to lick Darcy into her usual orgasm...."

May 10, 2002 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...FRUIT: It's almost too much. This five-female Aussie outfit can go from Ani DiFranco folk to..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

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