That's interesting because much later on, when they realised that a woman didn't have to climax in order to conceive, the idea of a woman enjoying sex was considered far less important.
If the last several films have been hampered by Rowling's reluctance to get on with the story -- it has been two steps forward and one step back for a while now -- that doesn't apply to the climax.
What I'll remember most vividly about Gus Van Sant's extraordinary " Elephan t" is not the violent climax -- his film is a fictional evocation of the shootings at Columbine High School -- but the state of grace that precedes it.
Perhaps the most telling piece in the morning newspapers is in the Times, where chief football correspondent Matt Dickinson says the snag with England's headhunting reaching a climax is that there isn't one.