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This movie is admired by people who use the term 'nympho'


That is, people with a primitive sensibility. Not just pre-feminist but pre just about anything. Notice that the Sirk lovers almost all describe the Malone character as a "nympho." Laughable, really.

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She's a nympho.

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I like the movie and I describe her as an over the top (read camp) psychotic.

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Well, in the 1950s, you couldn't just come out and say "she was a bottle-blonde with a slammin' bod, and she frigging LOVED the c*ck, ANY c*ck!"... just wasn't done. Decorum and all.

Still, I don't think it would've damaged the film, in any way, to have had a scene where 'Marylee', wearing one of her tight sweaters, was lying across her bed, on her back, head hanging back over the edge, and... (you guessed it)... using a cucumber to practice subduing her gag reflex... just sayin', themz thar nymphos be experimental... and typically bi also.

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I agree, it is judgemental and simplistic. And no one would be shocked by a male character acting the same way. it would be termed normal, since he can't have the one he loves.

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I don't see anything wrong with that term. It describes a real mental or emotional condition. (The male equivalent is, what, satyr?) Her character -- more accurately, one component of it -- was essentially a sex-addict, which is basically the present preferred phrase for a nymphomaniac. While depicting her as such may be a tad simplistic (and we do see other aspects of her character) I don't see anything judgmental in it as such, though it's true a lot of people might use or infer it in such a way -- particularly if they use the slang phrase "nympho". But the problem there is with the person, not the term.

Anyway, her sexuality is hardly subtle in this film. That final shot of her caressing the small gold model of an oil well while sitting at her father's desk is too over-the-top not to laugh at! But I do like this movie.

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Oh, and your "sensibility" is superior? You're just a pompous äss.

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Sure, because a flexible vocabulary is 'primitive'... whereas sweeping generalisations are the height of sophistication... 

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