Cinema Sex: Love Among the Ruins

Sexual intercourse began/In nineteen sixty-three," Philip Larkin, the good, glum British poet famously, ironically wrote. You might argue with his date--in movies the sexual revolution came a little later--but not with his basic insight. Since then, though, under the camera's avid scrutiny, onscreen sex has become an activity restricted to movie stars who are young and buff, with the older folks left pretty much standing in the corner, all buttoned up.

Now, though, a few new movies have boldly decided to go into essentially unmapped box-office territory and show some of our old movie pals nakedly enjoying elder sex. The theory...

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