The art of erotic conversation often thrives in long-distance relationships, and it is partly the obstacle of distance that enhances the spark.
Belmondo and Seberg's aimless, languorous, erotic conversation in her apartment is a glorious riff; in fact the whole movie is one continuous, inspired cine-jazz solo.
If the response is positive (hopefully with some tongue in cheek) then the lines of erotic conversation are officially open.
Groneman writes of a twenty-four-year-old middle-class Boston woman who, in 1856, sought medical help for her sexual inclinations, which she found disturbingly pronounced: she dreamed of men other than her husband, and was overwhelmed with erotic sensations during everyday conversations with men of her acquaintance.
The heaviest laugh in "Down with Love" is also the dirtiest, as the old split-screen device — used for him-and-her phone conversations — becomes an erotic bind, with Zellweger craning forward in one half of the frame and McGregor, fresh from the shower, eagerly towelling himself in the other, until her face is mashed against his midriff.
The conversation gathered an electric, erotic charge.
Both parties receive erotic pleasure from choppy long-distance telephone conversations, in which the only understandable words are "prayer," "antibiotic gel," and "I've finally persuaded the entire tribe to wear cargo shorts and culottes, so there's no more of that flippity-floppity".
It is an afterglow, that which follows from something else, as one chases one's desire into solid, reasonable things – conversation, friendship, teaching, and in the erotic connections of creativity.
For those of you doubting the coolness of this new entry into the American erotic-political vernacular, I offer the following sample conversation between two political insiders.
My colleagues were deeply invested in a conversation about black women being viewed as erotic and sexually desired.
"The lulls and desultory conversation, the flirting and cruising, the anticipation of adventure (erotic or otherwise), the ecstasy of being one among many lost in the music".
