Feigning sexual delight, Mr. Schmitz approached audience members seated on stools and demanded that they touch his hand, which he had thrust in his pants.
The polyamorist aspiration to replace sexual jealousy with "compersion" (a delight in one's partner's sexual delight with someone else) is just that: an aspiration.
And he is immensely funny in the famous gulling scene where he quivers with sexual delight at the prospect of leaving Olivia in her day-bed and finds a delicious innuendo in "some have greatness thrust upon them".
Stewart, armchair-bound and pushing his grocery-store dinner around the plate, lets the tape run on, only to hear the uplifting tones pointing the path to happiness give way to moans of sexual delight: Can it be that Charlotte has a taste for hardcore porn?
The authors more direct explorations of Stewarts life, though, often take unfortunate turns: during the making of Destry Rides Again, Marlene Dietrich went into serious heat, and soon Jimmy was busy diving into the deep waters of Dietrichs ocean of sexual delights.
While Anastasia took the lead in terms of emotional honesty, Christian exposed Anastasia to sexual delights that were previously unimaginable to her.
"They wanted sensual delights, sexual pleasure, and an alternative to religion," Evelyn Lord writes in her 2008 book, "The Hell-Fire Clubs: Sex, Satanism and Secret Societies".
Kreeft says, "Lust does not mean sexual pleasure as such, nor the delight in it, nor the desire for it in its right context".
But the pleasure he seeks, and offers, is finally more textual than sexual, the literary delight that Roland Barthes called jouissance.
Between these punctuations, he affects poses that would fit as comfortably within a twelve-bar blues as they do on the dimly lit Def Jam stage: sexual bravado, profane delight, sly self-deprecation, dismay and gathering confusion at a rapidly changing world.
With her creamy blond hair and her comic-strip expressions of sexual exertion and physical delight, Samantha is the broadest of the program's creations.
