WHAT IS THIRST?
or many of us, movies – along with whisperings on the school bus, maybe – are one of the first places we learn about sex. It could be the swimsuit strip-off in or the window-steaming love scene in . Or renting something like Bernardo Bertolucci’s from the video shop without your parents having the foggiest notion what it was (guilty). Or maybe, if you’re a little younger than me, seeing the nerve-prickling sensuality of something like Luca Guadagnino’s . Even if the film you saw had the slightest hint of libidinal energy, it was probably enough in that formative moment to
