What follow are the most passionate and explicitly erotic love scenes that Allen has ever directed.

NEWYORKER: Match Point

Councillor Helyn Clack said the county's love of erotic fiction and a boom in tablet computer sales had been credited with an 18% surge in e-loans.

BBC: Erotic fiction fuels Surrey library loans

The scenes of the slender teen-agers courting and making love have a delicate erotic strength a mixture of shyness and lust that is nearly unimaginable in a modern Western setting.

NEWYORKER: Chunhyang

Mr Cela's novels contain implicit criticism of Franco's Spain, and his love of the scatological and erotic was an affront to the moralistic conventions of the day.

ECONOMIST: Camilo Jos�� Cela

In the past century as feminists discovered the clitoris, gay liberationists discovered homosexuality, and flower children discovered free love the illusion of erotic novelty entered mass culture.

NEWYORKER: Novelty Acts

His Communism is, in effect, erotic, nourished by sun and sea and a love of the body, at work and at play.

NEWYORKER: The Snows of Kilimanjaro

Why would Emmanuelle, whose erotic adventures taught a generation the elusive art of sensual love, return from space to counsel freshman congressmen?

ECONOMIST: Lexington

He also describes his sexual exploits, devoting dozens of pages to one erotic challenge that combined uninhibited lust with high-wire audacity: a thwarted love affair, during a leftist press junket to North Korea in 1958, with a Pyongyang nurse.

NEWYORKER: Witness