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Candaulism is a sexual practice
Paraphilia

Paraphilia refers to powerful and persistent sexual interest other than in copulatory or precopulatory behavior with phenotype normal, consenting adult human partners....
 or fantasy
Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of Plot , Theme , and/or Setting . Fantasy is generally distinguished from science fiction and horror by the expectation that it steers clear of technological and macabre themes, respectively, though there is a great deal of overlap between the three ....
 in which a man exposes his woman, or pictures of her, to other people for their voyeur
Voyeurism

In clinical psychology, voyeurism is the sexual interest in or practice of spying on people engaged in intimate behaviors, such as undressing, sexual activity, or other activity usually considered to be of a private nature....
 pleasure. According to Gugitz, the term is derived from ancient King Candaules
Candaules

Candaules , also known as Myrsilos was a king of the ancient Kingdom of Lydia from 735 BC to 718 BC. He succeeded Meles of Lydia and was followed by Gyges of Lydia....
 who made a plot to show his unaware naked wife to his servant Gyges of Lydia
Gyges of Lydia

Gyges was the founder of the third or Mermnad dynasty of Lydian kings and reigned from 716 BC to 678 BC . He was succeeded by his son Ardys II....
. Discovering Gyges while he was watching her naked, Candaules' wife ordered him to choose between killing himself or killing her husband in order to repair the vicious mischief.

Sometimes this behavior is taken to the extreme point, allowing complete sexual relations, a practice defined by many English speaking people in the swinging
Swinging

Swinging, sometimes referred to as the swinging lifestyle, is "non-monogamous sexual activity, treated much like any other social activity, that can be experienced as a couple." The phenomenon of swinging may be seen as part of the Sexual Revolution of recent decades, which occurred after the upsurge in sexual activity made possible by...
 subculture as cuckold
Cuckold

A cuckold is a married man with an adulterous wife. Due to the word's original meaning, a man who is unwittingly raising another man's child, it refers to a man who is unaware of his victimization....
ry.






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Candaulism is a sexual practice
Paraphilia

Paraphilia refers to powerful and persistent sexual interest other than in copulatory or precopulatory behavior with phenotype normal, consenting adult human partners....
 or fantasy
Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of Plot , Theme , and/or Setting . Fantasy is generally distinguished from science fiction and horror by the expectation that it steers clear of technological and macabre themes, respectively, though there is a great deal of overlap between the three ....
 in which a man exposes his woman, or pictures of her, to other people for their voyeur
Voyeurism

In clinical psychology, voyeurism is the sexual interest in or practice of spying on people engaged in intimate behaviors, such as undressing, sexual activity, or other activity usually considered to be of a private nature....
 pleasure. According to Gugitz, the term is derived from ancient King Candaules
Candaules

Candaules , also known as Myrsilos was a king of the ancient Kingdom of Lydia from 735 BC to 718 BC. He succeeded Meles of Lydia and was followed by Gyges of Lydia....
 who made a plot to show his unaware naked wife to his servant Gyges of Lydia
Gyges of Lydia

Gyges was the founder of the third or Mermnad dynasty of Lydian kings and reigned from 716 BC to 678 BC . He was succeeded by his son Ardys II....
. Discovering Gyges while he was watching her naked, Candaules' wife ordered him to choose between killing himself or killing her husband in order to repair the vicious mischief.

Sometimes this behavior is taken to the extreme point, allowing complete sexual relations, a practice defined by many English speaking people in the swinging
Swinging

Swinging, sometimes referred to as the swinging lifestyle, is "non-monogamous sexual activity, treated much like any other social activity, that can be experienced as a couple." The phenomenon of swinging may be seen as part of the Sexual Revolution of recent decades, which occurred after the upsurge in sexual activity made possible by...
 subculture as cuckold
Cuckold

A cuckold is a married man with an adulterous wife. Due to the word's original meaning, a man who is unwittingly raising another man's child, it refers to a man who is unaware of his victimization....
ry. In certain cases the relation evolves into a stable union of three persons that is known as triolism.

History of the term

The term was first defined by Richard von Krafft-Ebbing in in his book: Psychopathia sexualis. Eine klinisch-forensische Studie (Stuttgart: Enke 1886).

Psychology of candaulism

R. Senf proposed that candaulism should be thought of as a veiled form of homosexuality
Homosexuality

Homosexuality refers to human sexual behavior or same-sex attraction between people of the same sex or to homosexual orientation. As a sexual orientation, homosexuality refers to "having sexual and romantic attraction primarily or exclusively to members of one?s own sex"; "it also refers to an individual?s sense of personal and social identi...
; Sadger hypothesized that the candaulist completely identifies with his partner's body, and deep in his mind is showing himself.

Candaulists in history

This is a list of seduced, sexually unfaithful wives, happily married for many years to famous consenting men (who deliberately ignored, tolerated, approved, encouraged, or even induced the non innocent nude exposition or promiscuous sexual behavior of their spouses, all facts fully proven, and widely known to the public). These persons/characters must have a relevance in arts, history, literature, science, cinema or cartoons, not belong to the world of pornography, and have stable relationships extending over many years.

  • Queen Catherine II of Russia
    Catherine II of Russia

    Catherine II, called Catherine the Great .The Russian empress Catherine II, known as Catherine the Great, reigned from 1762 to 1796. Under her direct auspices the Russian Empire expanded, improved in its administration, and underwent a dramatic policy of Westernization....
    , wife of Peter III of Russia
    Peter III of Russia

    Peter III was Emperor of Russian Empire for six months in 1762. According to most historians, he was mentally immature and very pro-Prussian, which made him an unpopular leader....
     (history)
  • Clodia
    Clodia

    Clodia, She is not to be confused with her niece, Clodia Pulchra, who was briefly married to Augustus Caesar.Despite being a woman, Clodia was very well educated in Greek language and Philosophy, with a special talent for writing poetry....
    , wife of the Roman citizen Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer (history)
  • Faustine La Jeune 02
    Faustina the Younger
    Faustina the Younger

    Annia Galeria Faustina Minor , Faustina Minor or Faustina the Younger was a daughter of Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius and Roman Empress Faustina the Elder....
    , wife of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius
    Marcus Aurelius

    Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus was Roman Emperor from 161 to his death in 180. He was the last of the "Five Good Emperors", and is also considered one of the most important stoicism philosophy....
    , mother of emperor M.A. Commodus
    Commodus

    Lucius Aurelius Commodus Antoninus , was a Roman Emperor who ruled from 180 to 192 . The name given here was his official name at his accession to sole rule; see 'Commodus#Changes of name' for earlier and later forms....
     Antoninus, said to be a son of a gladiator
    Gladiator

    A Gladiator was a slave, criminal or professional fighter in ancient Rome. Gladiators fought other gladiators, wild animals and condemned criminals, sometimes to the death, for the entertainment of Spectator sport in cities and towns of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, from the 3rd century BCE to the 5th century CE....
     (history)
Fornarina
* La fornarina
La Fornarina

The Portrait of a Young Woman is a painting by the Italy High Renaissance master Raphael, made between 1518 and 1520. It is housed in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica in Palazzo Barberini, Rome....
, lover of the Italian painter Raffaello da Urbino
Urbino

Urbino is a walled city in the Marche region in Italy, south-west of Pesaro, a World Heritage Site notable for a remarkable historical legacy of independent Renaissance culture, especially under the patronage of Federico da Montefeltro, duke of Urbino from 1444 to 1482....
 (arts)
  • Gala Dalí
    Gala Dalí

    Gala Dal? , usually known simply as Gala, was the wife of first Paul ?luard, then Salvador Dal?, and an inspiration for them and many other writers and artists....
    , wife of Catalan painter Salvador Dalí
    Salvador Dalí

    Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dal? i Dom?nech, 1st Marquis of P?bol was a Spain Catalonia surrealist painter born in Figueres.Dal? was a skilled Technical drawing, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealism work....
     (arts)


  • Queen Guinevere
    Guinevere

    Guinevere was the legendary queen consort of King Arthur. She was most famous for her love affair with Arthur's chief knight Sir Lancelot, which first appears in Chr?tien de Troyes' Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart....
    , wife of mythic British King Arthur
    King Arthur

    King Arthur is a legendary Britons leader who, according to medieval histories and Romance , led the defence of Britain against the Saxon invaders in the early 6th century....
    ; her lover was Arthur's champion, Sir Lancelot
    Lancelot

    In the Arthurian legend, Sir Lancelot is one of the Knights of the Round Tables of the Round Table . He is typically considered to be one of the greatest and most trusted of King Arthur's knights and plays a part in many of Arthur's victories....
     (literature, myth)
  • Clara Bracken McMillen, wife of American sexologist Alfred Kinsey
    Alfred Kinsey

    Alfred Charles Kinsey , was an United States biologist and professor of entomology and zoology, who in 1947 founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University , now called the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction....
     (science)
  • Valeria Messalina
    Messalina

    Valeria Messalina, sometimes spelled Messallina, was a Ancient Rome Empress as the third wife of Roman Emperor Claudius. A powerful and influential woman with a reputation for promiscuity, she conspired against her husband and was executed when the plot was discovered....
    , wife of Roman emperor Claudius
    Claudius

    Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus or Claudius I was the fourth Roman Emperor, a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, ruling from January 24, AD 41 to his death in AD 54....
     (history)
  • Marina Punturieri former wife of Marchioness Lante della Rovere
  • Marta Marzotto, wife of Italian count Marzotto
    Marzotto

    The Marzotto Group is an Italy textile manufacturer and fashion design house, based in Valdagno.Created in 1836 as the Lanificio Luigi Marzotto & Figli....
    , lover of painter Renato Guttuso
    Renato Guttuso

    Renato Guttuso was one of the major Italian people painters of the twentieth century.His best-known paintings include Flight from Etna , Crucifixion and La Vucciria ....
     (arts)
  • Madame de Pompadour
    Madame de Pompadour

    Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour, also known as Madame de Pompadour , was a talented and beautiful lady who exerted strong cultural, intellectual and political influence at the French court, and was installed as one of the official mistresses of Louis XV from 1745 to 1750....
    , wife of the French citizen Charles-Guilaume Le Normant (history)
  • Donna Olimpia Maidalchina, wife of Panfilio Pamphili, brother of Catholic Pope Innocent X
    Pope Innocent X

    Pope Innocent X , born Giovanni Battista Pamphilj , was Pope from 1644 to 1655. Born in Rome of a family from Gubbio in Umbria who had come to Rome during the pontificate of Pope Innocent IX, he graduated from the Collegio Romano and followed a conventional cursus honorum, following his uncle Girolamo Pamphilj as auditor of the Rot...
     (history)
  • Queen Marguerite de Valois
    Marguerite de Valois

    Marguerite de Valois , "La Reine Margot" was List of Queens and Empresses of France of Kingdom of France and of Kingdom of Navarre during the late sixteenth century....
     married with King Henry IV of France
    Henry IV of France

    Henry de Bourbon, , ruled as Henry III, List of Navarrese monarchs, from 1572 to 1610, and as Henry IV, List of French monarchs, from 1589 to 1610....
     (history)
  • Emma, Lady Hamilton
    Emma, Lady Hamilton

    Emma, Lady Hamilton is best remembered as the mistress of Lord Nelson and as the muse of George Romney . She was born Emy Lyon in Ness, Cheshire near Neston, Cheshire, England, the daughter of a blacksmith, Henry Lyon, who died when she was two months old....
    , wife of Sir William Hamilton.
  • Wallis Simpson, wife of Edward VIII of the United Kingdom
    Edward VIII of the United Kingdom

    Edward VIII was Monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the dominion, and Emperor of India from 20 January 1936, following the death of his father, George V of the United Kingdom, until his abdication on 11 December 1936....
     (history)


Filmography

  • Gilda
    Gilda

    Gilda is a black-and-white film noir directed by Charles Vidor. It stars Glenn Ford and Rita Hayworth in her signature role as the ultimate femme fatale. The film was noted for cinematographer Rudolph Mate's lush photography, costume designer Jean Louis' sexy wardrobe for Hayworth , and choreographer Jack Cole's staging of "Put the...
     (1946, by Charles Vidor
    Charles Vidor

    Charles Vidor was a film director.Born Vidor K?roly to a Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary, he served in the Hungarian Army during World War I....
    ), with Rita Hayworth
    Rita Hayworth

    Rita Hayworth , was an American actress who attained fame during the 1940s not only as one of the era's top musical stars, but also as the era's defining sex symbol, most notably in the 1946 film Gilda....
     and Glenn Ford
    Glenn Ford

    Gwyllyn Samuel Newton "Glenn" Ford was a Canada-born United States actor from Classical Hollywood cinema's Golden Era with a career that spanned seven decades....
    . In a carnival party, Gilda gives her lover a bill asking him "why are you Cuckolding me ?" .
  • Jules et Jim (1962, by François Truffaut
    François Truffaut

    Fran?ois Roland Truffaut was an influential filmmaker and one of the founders of the French New Wave; and remains an icon of the Cinema of France industry....
    ) with Jeanne Moreau
    Jeanne Moreau

    Jeanne Moreau is a BAFTA Awards and C?sar Awards-winning French people actress, screenwriter and Film director....
    , Oscar Werner and Henri Serre
    Henri Serre

    Henri Serre is a French actor who is best known as Jim in Jules and Jim. Other appearances include The Fire Within, Section sp?ciale and Mister Frost....
  • Knife in the Water
    Knife in the Water (film)

    Knife in the Water is a 1962 film directed by Roman Polanski. It features only three characters and deals with rivalry and sexual tension....
     (Nóz w wodzie)     (1962, by Roman Polanski
    Roman Polanski

    Roman Raymond Polanski is an Academy Award-winning and four-time nominated Poland-France film director, writer, actor and film producer.Polanski began his career in Poland, and later became a celebrated director of both art house and commercial films, making such films as Rosemary's Baby and Chinatown ....
    ) with Leon Niemczyk
    Leon Niemczyk

    Leon Stanislaw Niemczyk was a Poland actor.Niemczyk appeared in over 500 films and television shows over the course of his very long career....
    , Jolanta Umecka, Zygmunt Malanowicz.
  • Irma la Douce
    Irma la Douce

    Irma La Douce is a 1963 comedy starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine....
     (1963, by Billy Wilder
    Billy Wilder

    Billy Wilder was an Austrian-United States journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter, and film producer, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films....
    ), with Jack Lemmon
    Jack Lemmon

    'John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III' was an United States actor known principally for his comedic roles. He starred in over 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Days of Wine and Roses , Irma La Douce, The Odd Couple , The Out-of-Towners , Glengarry Glen Ross , The China Syndrome and JFK ....
    , Shirley MacLaine
    Shirley MacLaine

    Shirley MacLaine is an United States Academy Awards-winning film and theater actress, dancer, activist, and author, well-known for her beliefs in new age spirituality and reincarnation....
    , Lou Jacobi
    Lou Jacobi

    Louis Harold "Lou" Jacobi is a Canadian character actor.Jacobi was born in Toronto, Ontario to Jewish parents Fay and Joseph Jacobi. Slightly overweight and sporting a moustache, he appeared in several films and television commercials, particularly in the 1970s....
    .
  • Belle de Jour
    Belle de jour

    Belle de jour is a 1967 in film Cinema of France film starring Catherine Deneuve as a woman who decides to spend her days as a prostitute while her husband is at work....
     (1967, by Luis Buñuel
    Luis Buñuel

    Luis Bu?uel Portol?s was a Spanish people-born filmmaker who worked mainly in France and Mexico, but also in his native Spain and in the United States....
    ), with Catherine Deneuve
    Catherine Deneuve

    Catherine Deneuve is a two-time C?sar Award-winning, BAFTA Award-nominated and Academy Award-nominated French actress. She gained recognition for her portrayal of beautiful ice maidens for various directors, including Luis Bu?uel and Roman Polanski....
    , Jean Sorel
    Jean Sorel

    Jean Sorel is a France actor.He also worked in Italian cinema, and Spanish cinema with directors such as Luis Bu?uel or Luchino Visconti. However since 1980 he has worked mostly in television....
     and Michel Piccoli
    Michel Piccoli

    Michel Piccoli is a France actor who has worked with Jean Renoir, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean-Luc Godard , Claude Lelouch, Jacques Demy, Claude Sautet, Louis Malle, Agn?s Varda, Leos Carax, Luis Bu?uel, Costa-Gavras, Alfred Hitchcock, Marco Ferreri, Jacques Rivette, Otar Iosseliani and Jacques Doillon....
    .
  • The Graduate
    The Graduate

    The Graduate is a Cinema of United States comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols, based on the The Graduate by Charles Webb, who wrote the piece shortly after graduating from Williams College....
     (1967, by Mike Nichols
    Mike Nichols

    Mike Nichols is an United States television, stage and film director, writer, and producer. Nichols is one of the few people to have won List of persons who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards: an Oscar, Grammy, Emmy and Tony Award....
    ), with Dustin Hoffman
    Dustin Hoffman

    Dustin Lee Hoffman is a two-time Academy Award-, six-time Golden Globe-, three-time BAFTA- and Emmy Award-winning United States actor....
    , Anne Bancroft
    Anne Bancroft

    Anne Bancroft was an United States actress associated with the Method acting school of acting....
    , Katharine Ross
    Katharine Ross

    Katharine Juliet Ross is an Academy Award-nominated American film and theatre actress. Trained at the San Francisco Workshop, she is perhaps best known for her role as Elaine Robinson in the 1967 film The Graduate, opposite Dustin Hoffman, and her role as Etta Place in 1969's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, opposite Paul Newman a...
  • Il merlo maschio
    Il merlo maschio

    Il merlo maschio is an Italy motion picture, filmed in 1971 by director Pasquale Festa Campanile....
     (1970, by Pasquale Festa Campanile
    Pasquale Festa Campanile

    Pasquale Festa Campanile was a Academy Award nominated Italy screenwriter and film director....
    ), with Laura Antonelli
    Laura Antonelli

    Laura Antonelli is a former Italy film actress....
     and Lando Buzzanca
    Lando Buzzanca

    Gerlando Buzzanca is an Italian people comedy actor.He left high school in Palermo when he was 16 years old, and moved to Rome to pursue his dream of becoming an actor....
  • La Dernière femme
    La Dernière femme

    La Derni?re femme is a 1976 French film directed by Marco Ferreri and starring G?rard Depardieu, Ornella Muti, Michel Piccoli, Zouzou and Nathalie Baye....
     (1976, by Marco Ferreri
    Marco Ferreri

    'Marco Ferreri' was an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor. He was born in Milan and died in Paris of a myocardial infarction. Upon his death, Gilles Jacob, artistic director of the Cannes International Film Festival, said: The Italian cinema has lost one of its most original artists, one of its most personal authors No one was mo...
    ), with Gérard Depardieu
    Gérard Depardieu

    name = G?rard DepardieuNational Order of Quebec| image = G?rard Depardieu 2008.jpg| imagesize =| caption = G?rard Depardieu, 2008...
    , Ornella Muti
    Ornella Muti

    Ornella Muti is an Italy actor. She was born in Rome as Francesca Romana Rivelli, to a Naples father and Estonians mother. She has an older sister, Claudia ....
    , Michel Piccoli
    Michel Piccoli

    Michel Piccoli is a France actor who has worked with Jean Renoir, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean-Luc Godard , Claude Lelouch, Jacques Demy, Claude Sautet, Louis Malle, Agn?s Varda, Leos Carax, Luis Bu?uel, Costa-Gavras, Alfred Hitchcock, Marco Ferreri, Jacques Rivette, Otar Iosseliani and Jacques Doillon....
    .
  • The Tin Drum
    The Tin Drum (film)

    The Tin Drum is a 1979 film adaptation of the The Tin Drum by G?nter Grass. It was directed and co-written by Volker Schl?ndorff.The film won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival and the 1979 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film....
     (1979, by Volker Schlöndorff
    Volker Schlöndorff

    Volker Schl?ndorff is a Berlin-based Germany filmmaker.He won an Academy Awards as well as the Palme d'or at the Cannes Film Festival for The Tin Drum , the film version of the novel by Nobel Prize in Literature-winning author G?nter Grass....
    ), with Mario Adorf
    Mario Adorf

    Mario Adorf is an Italian-German film and stage actor, best known for his lead role in the 1978 in film film The Tin Drum .Biography...
    , Angela Winkler
    Angela Winkler

    Angela Winkler is a Germany Actor....
    , David Bennent
    David Bennent

    David Bennent is a Switzerland actor.His parents are actor Heinz Bennent and former dancer Diane Mansart. His sister Anne Bennent is also an actress....
    , Daniel Olbrychski
    Daniel Olbrychski

    Daniel Olbrychski is a Poland actor. He played leading roles in several Andrzej Wajda movies. Played one of the leading roles in Volker Schl?ndorff's rendering of Nobel-prize awarded Germany writer G?nther Grass's book "Die Blechtrommel" ....
    , Katharina Thalbach
    Katharina Thalbach

    Katharina Thalbach is a Germany Actor and film director....
    .
  • La Pelle
    La Pelle

    La Pelle is a 1981 in film Italy war film directed by Liliana Cavani and starring Marcello Mastroianni, Ken Marshall, Claudia Cardinale and Burt Lancaster....
     (1981, by Liliana Cavani
    Liliana Cavani

    Liliana Cavani is an Italian director and screenwriter, best known for her 1974 feature film Il portiere di notte which launched actress Charlotte Rampling to international stardom....
    ), with Claudia Cardinale
    Claudia Cardinale

    Claudia Cardinale is an Tunisia actor born in Tunis, Tunisia. Some of the most notable films she has appeared in include 8? and Once Upon a Time in the West ....
    , Marcello Mastroianni
    Marcello Mastroianni

    Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni was an Italians actor.During his career, Mastroianni had won or been nominated multiple times for awards such as Volpi Cup, Best Actor Award , BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, David di Donatello for Best Actor, Nastro d'Argento, Sant Jordi Award, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion...
    , Burt Lancaster
    Burt Lancaster

    Burton Stephen "Burt" Lancaster was an United States film actor and star, noted for his athletic physique, distinct smile and, later, his willingness to play roles that went against his initial "tough guy" image....
    , Ken Marshall, Alexandra King, Carlo Giuffrè
    Carlo Giuffrè

    Carlo Giuffr? is a Italy film actor. He has appeared in 93 films since 1950 in film.He was born in Naples, Italy....
  • Querelle
    Querelle

    Querelle, a 1982 film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, adapted from France author Jean Genet's 1947 novel Querelle de Brest....
     (1982, by Reiner Werner Fassbinder) with Brad Davis
    Brad Davis (actor)

    Brad Davis was an United States actor, best known for his role in the 1978 film Midnight Express ....
     and Jeanne Moreau
    Jeanne Moreau

    Jeanne Moreau is a BAFTA Awards and C?sar Awards-winning French people actress, screenwriter and Film director....
    .
  • Maria's lovers (1984, by Andrei Konchalovsky
    Andrei Konchalovsky

    Andrey Sergeyevich Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky is a Russian filmmaker....
    ) with Nastassja Kinski
    Nastassja Kinski

    'Nastassja Kinski' is a German Actor, who has appeared in more than 60 international movies. Her starring roles include her Golden Globe Award-winning portrayal of 'Tess Durbeyfield' in Roman Polanski's film Tess, her roles in two erotic films , and her parts in Wim Wenders' films The Wrong Move, Paris, Texas , and Faraway, So Close!...
    , John Savage
    John Savage (actor)

    ----John Savage is an American film actor, Film producer, production manager, and composer....
     and Keith Carradine
    Keith Carradine

    Keith Ian Carradine is an United States Academy Awards-winning actor and songwriter, born into a family of actors....
  • 9½ Weeks
    9½ Weeks

    ?9? Weeks is a 1986 in film erotic drama film directed by Adrian Lyne and starring Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger. The film is based on the novella of the same title by Elizabeth McNeill....
     (1986, by Adrian Lyne
    Adrian Lyne

    Adrian Lyne is an English filmmaker and film producer. He is best known for his films focusing on sexually charged characters, and sultry, eroticized atmospheres which he visually creates in his films by use of filming techniques such as making use of natural light and using a fog machine to create a soft focus....
    ) with Mickey Rourke
    Mickey Rourke

    Philip Andre "Mickey" Rourke, Jr. is an United States actor who has appeared primarily as a leading man in action, drama, and Thriller films....
    , Kim Basinger
    Kim Basinger

    'Kimila Ann "Kim" Basinger' is an United States film actor and former fashion model.She won multiple best supporting actress awards for her role in the 1997 film L.A....
    , David Margulies
    David Margulies

    David Joseph Margulies is an United States actor.Margulies was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Runya , a nurse and museum worker, and Harry David Margulies, a lawyer....
    .
  • I miei primi quarant'anni (1987, by Carlo Vanzina
    Carlo Vanzina

    Carlo Vanzina is an Italy film director, Film producer and screenwriter. He was born in Rome in 1951.In 2001 he directed the romantic comedy film South Kensington starring Rupert Everett and Elle Macpherson....
    ), with Carol Alt
    Carol Alt

    Carol Ann Alt is an American model and actress....
    , Elliott Gould
    Elliott Gould

    Elliott Gould is an Academy Award-nominated United States actor. He became known during the 1970s, having starred in many Hollywood films, and has since continued appearing in supporting roles....
     and Jean Rochefort
    Jean Rochefort

    Jean Rochefort is a France actor who has appeared in more than 100 movies.Rochefort was born in Paris, France. He was 19 years old when he entered the Centre d'Art Dramatique de la rue Blanche....
    .
  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit
    Who Framed Roger Rabbit

    Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 fantasy film comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis, produced by Steven Spielberg and based on Gary K. Wolf's novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?....
     (1988, by Robert Zemeckis
    Robert Zemeckis

    Robert Lee "Bob" Zemeckis is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning American film director, Film producer and screenwriter. Zemeckis first came to public attention in the 1980s as the director of the comedic time-travel Back to the Future trilogy films as well as the live-action/animated film Who Framed Roger Rabbit , though in t...
    ), Bob Hoskins
    Bob Hoskins

    Robert William "Bob" Hoskins, Jr. is an England actor, known for playing Cockney rough diamonds and gangsters, and for his performances in family films such as Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Hook ....
     & cartoons.
  • Wild Orchid (1990, by Zalman King
    Zalman King

    Zalman King is an US film director, writer, actor and producer.He was born Zalman Lefkovitz in Trenton, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States....
    ) with Jacqueline Bisset
    Jacqueline Bisset

    Jacqueline Bisset is an English actress....
    , Carré Otis
    Carré Otis

    Carr? Otis is an American model and actress best known for her role as Emily Reed in Wild Orchid .Carre Otis was raised in San Francisco along with her older sister Chrissie and her younger brother Jordan....
    , Mickey Rourke
    Mickey Rourke

    Philip Andre "Mickey" Rourke, Jr. is an United States actor who has appeared primarily as a leading man in action, drama, and Thriller films....
    .
  • Henry & June (1990, by Philip Kaufman
    Philip Kaufman

    Philip Kaufman is an American film director and screenwriter. Although not noted for directing a large number of films, the films he has worked on have been done with recognizable intelligence and independence....
    ), with Fred Ward
    Fred Ward

    Fred Ward is an United States actor. He began his career in 1979 alongside Clint Eastwood in Escape from Alcatraz....
    , Uma Thurman
    Uma Thurman

    Uma Karuna Thurman Hawke , better known as Uma Thurman, is an American actress. She performs predominantly in leading roles in a variety of films, ranging from romantic comedy film and dramas to science fiction film and Action movie Thriller s....
    , Maria de Medeiros
    Maria de Medeiros

    Maria de Medeiros, Order of St. James of the Sword is a Portugal actress and director who has been involved in both European and American film productions....
    .
  • The Bonfire of the Vanities
    The Bonfire of the Vanities (film)

    The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1990 in film film adaptation of a novel by Tom Wolfe, also called The Bonfire of the Vanities. The film was directed by Brian De Palma and stars Tom Hanks as Sherman McCoy, Bruce Willis as Peter Fallow, Melanie Griffith as Maria Ruskin, and Kim Cattrall as Judy McCoy, Sherman's wife....
          (1990, by Brian De Palma
    Brian De Palma

    Brian De Palma is an US film director. In a career spanning over forty years, he is probably best known for his suspense and thriller films, including such box office successes as Carrie , Dressed to Kill , Scarface , The Untouchables , and Mission: Impossible ....
    ) with Tom Hanks
    Tom Hanks

    Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Hanks is an American film actor, film director, voice-over artist, writer and film producer. Hanks worked in television and family-friendly comedies before achieving success as a dramatic actor portraying several notable roles, including Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia , the title role in Forrest Gump, Commander J...
    , Bruce Willis
    Bruce Willis

    Walter Bruce Willis , better known as Bruce Willis, is an United Statesn actor and film producer. His career began in television in the 1980s and has continued both in television and film since....
    , Melanie Griffith
    Melanie Griffith

    Melanie Griffith is an Academy Award and Emmy-nominated, Golden Globe-award winning United States actress. She is the daughter of actress Tippi Hedren and the wife of actor Antonio Banderas....
    , Kim Cattrall
    Kim Cattrall

    Kim Victoria Cattrall is an England-Canada actress. She is known for her role as Samantha Jones in the HBO comedy/romance series Sex and the City, and for her leading roles in the 1980s films Police Academy and Mannequin ....
    .
  • Bitter Moon
    Bitter Moon

    'Bitter Moon' is a 1992 film starring Hugh Grant , Kristin Scott Thomas , Emmanuelle Seigner and Peter Coyote . Directed by Roman Polanski. The film is also known as in France....
     (Lunes de fiel)     (1992, by Roman Polanski
    Roman Polanski

    Roman Raymond Polanski is an Academy Award-winning and four-time nominated Poland-France film director, writer, actor and film producer.Polanski began his career in Poland, and later became a celebrated director of both art house and commercial films, making such films as Rosemary's Baby and Chinatown ....
    ), with Hugh Grant
    Hugh Grant

    Hugh John Mungo Grant is a British people actor and film producer. He has received a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA, and an Honorary C?sar. His movies have earned more than $2.4 billion from 25 theatrical releases worldwide....
    , Kristin Scott Thomas
    Kristin Scott Thomas

    Kristin A. Scott Thomas, Order of British Empire is a highly acclaimed Olivier Award- and BAFTA-winning, two-time Golden Globe-, Academy Award-, and Cesar Award-nominated British actress with French citizenship....
    , Emmanuelle Seigner
    Emmanuelle Seigner

    Emmanuelle Seigner is a C?sar Award-nominated France Actor and model , best known as the wife of Academy Award winning director Roman Polanski, and for her roles in La Vie En Rose , The Diving Bell and the Butterfly , and Frantic ....
     , Peter Coyote
    Peter Coyote

    Peter Coyote is an United States actor, author, film director, screenwriter and narrator of films, theatre, television and audio books. His voice work includes narrating the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics....
    .
  • La Reine Margot (1994, by Patrice Chéreau
    Patrice Chéreau

    Patrice Ch?reau is a France opera and theatre director, filmmaker, actor, and Television producer....
    , with Isabelle Adjani
    Isabelle Adjani

    Isabelle Yasmine Adjani is a four-time C?sar award-winning and two-time Academy Award-nominated France film actress. She performs in French language, English language, and German language....
    , Daniel Auteuil
    Daniel Auteuil

    Daniel Auteuil is a France actor born at January 24 1950. He was born in Algiers, French Algeria, to parents who were both opera singers. His starring role in Jean de Florette brought him international recognition, and he has since become one of the best-known, best-paid and most popular actors in France....
    , Virna Lisi
    Virna Lisi

    Virna Lisi is a Best Actress Award and C?sar Award awards-winning Italy film actress....
    , Miguel Bosé
    Miguel Bosé

    Miguel Luchino Gonz?lez Bos? is a Latin Grammy-winning Spain musician and actor. He is one of the biggest stars in the Spanish speaking world mainstream, both in Spain and Latin America, and a well-known actor in French cinema as well....
  • The Specialist
    The Specialist

    The Specialist was a 1994 action film from Warner Bros. Pictures. It was directed by Luis Llosa, produced by Jerry Weintraub, and written by Alexandra Seros....
     (1994, by Luis Llosa
    Luis Llosa

    Luis Llosa is a Peruvian film director. He is the cousin of the Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa....
    ) with Sharon Stone
    Sharon Stone

    Sharon Yvonne Stone is an United Statesn actress, film producer and former Model . She first acheived international recognition for her performance in the erotic thriller Basic Instinct....
    , Silvester Stallone, James Woods
    James Woods

    James Howard Woods is a two-time Academy Award-nominated, Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe-winning United States film, Theatre and television actor....
     and Rod Steiger
    Rod Steiger

    Rod Steiger was an United States Academy Award-winning actor known for his intense performances in such films as In the Heat of the Night , Waterloo , On the Waterfront, and Doctor Zhivago ....
    .
  • Une femme française (1995, by Régis Wargnier
    Régis Wargnier

    R?gis Wargnier is a France film director, film producer, screenwriter, actor and film score composer....
    ), with Emmanuelle Béart
    Emmanuelle Béart

    Emmanuelle B?art is a French film actress....
     and Daniel Auteuil
    Daniel Auteuil

    Daniel Auteuil is a France actor born at January 24 1950. He was born in Algiers, French Algeria, to parents who were both opera singers. His starring role in Jean de Florette brought him international recognition, and he has since become one of the best-known, best-paid and most popular actors in France....
    .
  • Eyes Wide Shut
    Eyes Wide Shut

    Eyes Wide Shut is a psychological drama with many elements of an erotic thriller directed, produced and co-written by Stanley Kubrick, based on the novella Traumnovelle by Arthur Schnitzler....
    , (1999 by Stanley Kubrick
    Stanley Kubrick

    Stanley Kubrick was an influential American-British filmmaker, screenwriter, Film producer and photographer. He directed a number of highly acclaimed and often controversial films....
    , based on Dream Story
    Dream Story

    Dream Story is a 1926 novella by the Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler. It details the thoughts and psychological transformations of Doctor Fridolin over a two day period....
    , a book by Arthur Schnitzler
    Arthur Schnitzler

    File:Arthur_Schnitzler_1912.jpgDr. Arthur Schnitzler was an Austrians Austrian literature and dramatist....
    ). With Tom Cruise
    Tom Cruise

    Thomas Cruise Mapother IV , better known by his Stage name Tom Cruise, is an United States actor and film producer. Forbes magazine ranked him as the world's most powerful celebrity in 2006....
     and Nicole Kidman
    Nicole Kidman

    Nicole Mary Kidman, Order of Australia is an Academy Award-winning Hawaiian-born Australian actress, fashion model, singer, United Nations Citizen of the World award-winning humanitarian, and a UNIFEM and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador....
    .
  • How much do you love me?, (Combien tu m'aimes?) (2005, by Bertrand Blier
    Bertrand Blier

    Bertrand Blier is a France screenwriter and film director.Born in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. He is the son of Bernard Blier....
    ) with Monica Bellucci
    Monica Bellucci

    Monica Anna Maria Bellucci is an Italy actress and fashion model....
    , Bernard Campan
    Bernard Campan

    Bernard Campan is a French actor, film director and writer. He is a member of Les Inconnus trio of humorists. He won a C?sar Award for Best Debut for Les Trois Fr?res, and was nominated for best actor for his role in Se souvenir des belles choses....
     and Gérard Depardieu
    Gérard Depardieu

    name = G?rard DepardieuNational Order of Quebec| image = G?rard Depardieu 2008.jpg| imagesize =| caption = G?rard Depardieu, 2008...
  • Memoirs of a Geisha
    Memoirs of a Geisha (film)

    Memoirs of a Geisha is a 2005 film adaptation of Memoirs of a Geisha, produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment and directed by Rob Marshall....
     (2005, by Rob Marshall
    Rob Marshall

    Rob Marshall is an United States theater director, film director and choreographer. He is a six-time Tony Award nominee, Academy Award nominee, Golden Globe nominee and Emmy winner whose most noted work includes the 2002 film Chicago and the 1998 Broadway revival of Cabaret ....
    ) with Zhang Ziyi
    Zhang Ziyi

    Zhang Ziyi is a Chinese film actresses. Zhang is considered one of the Four Young Dan actresses in China, along with Zhao Wei, Xu Jinglei, and Zhou Xun....
    , and Ken Watanabe
    Ken Watanabe

    is an Academy Award-nominated Japanese theater, film, and television actor. To English language audiences he is known for playing tragic hero characters, such as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi in Letters from Iwo Jima and Lord Katsumoto in The Last Samurai....
    .


See also

  • Amateur pornography
    Amateur pornography

    Amateur pornography is a category of pornography that features models or actors performing without pay, or for whom this material is their first or only paid modeling work....
  • Compersion
    Compersion

    Compersion is a term used by practitioners of polyamory to describe the experience of taking pleasure that one's partner is experiencing pleasure, even if the source of their pleasure is other than yourself....
  • Cuckoldry
  • Droit de seigneur
    Droit de seigneur

    Droit de seigneur , French language for the lord's right, is a term now popularly used to describe an alleged legal right allowing the lord of an estate to take the virginity of the estate's virgins....
  • Exhibitionism
    Exhibitionism

    Exhibitionism, known variously as flashing, apodysophilia and Lady Godiva syndrome, is the psychological need and pattern of behavior involving the exposure of parts of the body to another person with a tendency toward an extravagant, usually at least partially sexually inspired behavior to attract the attention of another...
  • Indecent exposure
    Indecent exposure

    Indecent exposure is the deliberate exposure by a person of a portion or portions of his or her own body under circumstances where such an exposure is likely to be seen as contrary to the local commonly accepted standards of decency , and may in fact be a violation of law....
  • List of public outdoor clothes free places
    List of public outdoor clothes free places

    This is a list of public outdoor nudity areas for recreation. Includes free beaches , parks, clubs, regional organizations and some resorts....
  • Naturism
    Naturism

    File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1984-0828-411A, Wismarer Bucht, FKK-Strand.jpgNaturism or nudism is a cultural movement and political movement advocating and defending social nudity in private and in public nudity....
  • Open marriage
    Open marriage

    Open marriage typically refers to a marriage in which the partners agree that each may engage in adultery, without this being regarded as infidelity....
  • Polyamory
    Polyamory

    Polyamory is the desire, practice, or acceptance of having more than one loving, intimate relationship at a time with the full knowledge and consent of everyone involved....
  • Public nudity
    Public nudity

    Public nudity or nude in public refers to nudity not in an entirely private context. It refers to a person appearing nude in a public place or to be seen from a public place....
  • Sexually liberal feminism
  • Voyeurism
    Voyeurism

    In clinical psychology, voyeurism is the sexual interest in or practice of spying on people engaged in intimate behaviors, such as undressing, sexual activity, or other activity usually considered to be of a private nature....


Further reading

  • American Psychiatric Society, "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Text Revision IV" (DSM-IV-TR).
  • Barbara Foster, Michael Foster, Letha Hadady. Three in Love: Ménages à trois from Ancient to Modern Times. ISBN 0-595-00807-0
  • Geoffrey Chaucer
    Geoffrey Chaucer

    Geoffrey Chaucer was an English author, poet, philosopher, Bureaucracy, Noble court and diplomat. Although he wrote many works, he is best remembered for his unfinished frame narrative The Canterbury Tales....
    , Canterbury Tales, (the Miller's Tale is a story that humorously examines the life of a cuckold).
  • Robertson Davies
    Robertson Davies

    William Robertson Davies, Order of Canada, Royal Society of Canada, Royal Society of Literature was a Canada novelist, theatre, criticism, journalism, and professor....
    , Fifth Business
    Fifth Business

    Fifth Business is a 1970 in literature novel by Canada novelist, theatre, criticism, journalism, and professor Robertson Davies.Fifth Business is perhaps Davies' best-known novel, and by many considered it his finest....


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