But unlike Jennifer, most of the women I know are in serious relationships, and so cheating -- be it a one-night stand or a more serious transgression -- can be dangerous stuff.
But a leading Reform rabbi, fearful that airing Jewish transgressions could prove dangerous in a climate of rising xenophobia, when Henry Ford's newspaper was denouncing Jews as un-American, rallied a campaign against the play.
That's the thing with America: sex is still seen as a dangerous weapon of hatred and transgression, while lethal weaponry is par for the course.
Their first kiss is a joke meant to shock the other moms, but it shocks Brad and Sarah as well, and their discomfort signals that we are not in the swinging suburbia of novels like "Couples" or "The Ice Storm," but rather in a milieu in which marital infidelity carries the dangerous, thrilling charge of genuine transgression.
Engdahl does have some points to make about what he calls "fake" transgression, work intended to look dangerous as a commodity but that doesn't actually challenge the status quo.
Nature, desire and transgression overlap, creating a frisson of dangerous uncertainty.
Cosmopolis might be seen as a distinctively late Cronenberg film, that is, like his Spider (2002) or A Dangerous Method (2011), one that combines his characteristic interest in transgression and taboo with something more discursive and cerebral.
Ballard's moral concern is that if technology edits out our more ordinary, daily transgressions, then the human spirit, perverse and lurid as it is, will find ever more elaborate and dangerous ways to transgress.
Transgressions cause real harm.
