It is a record of emotional connections, not sexual conquests.
The conquest aroused him to action".
This profoundly sex-positive film is the unusual movie that equates sex with intimacy, tenderness and emotional connection instead of performance, competition and conquest.
Arriving in a culture steeped in titillation, prurience and pornographic imagery, "The Sessions" is a pleasant shock: a touching, profoundly sex-positive film that equates sex with intimacy, tenderness and emotional connection instead of performance, competition and conquest.
The movie "is a pleasant shock: a touching, profoundly sex-positive film that equates sex with intimacy, tenderness and emotional connection instead of performance, competition and conquest," Stephen Holden wrote in The Times in October.
This novel, in contrast, focuses almost exclusively on Owen's sexual high jinks -- bedroom conquests so devoid of genuine emotional connection that they never lead Owen to greater self-knowledge or insight.
Both Don and Ted thrive on a kind of emotional chaos and love the hunt, the chase, the conquest.
The story of the white man's conquest (there is no other word) of the USA from the native Americans' viewpoint is powerful, emotional, highly informative and well written.
Michael Caine stars as Alfie Elkins, a London driver who works occasionally but philanders constantly; he's a pickup artist with cheek and charm, who lives solely for his conquests and refuses to be tied down to one woman with anything so burdensome as an emotional attachment.
"They are symbols of conquest.
