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((for|the book|Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (book)))
((DISPLAYTITLE:''Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)'' (film)))
((more citations needed|date=February 2015))
((Infobox film
| name          = Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex*<br />(*But Were Afraid to Ask)
| italic_title  = no
| image         = Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex.jpg
| caption       = Theatrical release poster
| director      = [[Woody Allen]]
| producer      = [[Charles Joffe|Charles H. Joffe]]
| screenplay    = Woody Allen
| based_on      = ((Based on|''[[Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (book)|Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)]]''|[[David Reuben (author)|David Reuben]]))
| starring     = ((Plainlist|
* Woody Allen
* [[John Carradine]]
* [[Lou Jacobi]]
* [[Louise Lasser]]
* [[Anthony Quayle]]
* [[Tony Randall]]
* [[Lynn Redgrave]]
* [[Burt Reynolds]]
* [[Gene Wilder]]
))
| music        = [[Mundell Lowe]]
| cinematography = [[David M. Walsh]]
| editing      = Eric Albertson
| production_companies = ((Plainlist|
* Jack Rollins–Charles H. Joffe Productions
* [[Elliott Gould|Brodsky/Gould Productions]]
))
| distributor  = [[United Artists]]
| released     = ((Film date|1972|08|06))
| runtime      = 88 minutes
| country      = United States
| language     = ((Plainlist|
* English
* Italian
))
| budget       = $2 million
| gross        = $18 million<ref>((cite web|url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=everythingyoualwayswantedtoknowaboutsex.htm|website=[[Box Office Mojo]]|title=Box Office Information for Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, But Were Afraid to Ask|access-date=January 21, 2012|archive-date=January 28, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120128185341/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=everythingyoualwayswantedtoknowaboutsex.htm|url-status=live))</ref>
))

'''''Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)''''' is a 1972 American [[sex comedy]] [[anthology film]] directed by [[Woody Allen]]. It consists of a series of [[Sketch comedy|short sequences]] loosely inspired by [[David Reuben (sex author)|David Reuben]]'s 1969 [[Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (book)|book of the same name]].

The film was an early success for Woody Allen, grossing over $18 million in North America alone against a $2 million budget, making it the [[1972 in film|10th highest-grossing film of 1972]].

==Film structure==
The credits at the start and close of the film are played over a backdrop of a large mass of white rabbits, to the tune of "[[Let's Misbehave]]" by [[Cole Porter]].

The film consists of seven vignettes, as follows:
# ''Do Aphrodisiacs Work?''<br/>A court jester gives a [[Potion|love potion]] to the Queen but is foiled by her [[chastity belt]]. There are references to [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Hamlet]]'' throughout.
# ''What Is Sodomy?''<br/>Dr. Ross falls in love with the partner of an Armenian patient, a sheep.
# ''Why Do Some Women Have Trouble Reaching an Orgasm?''<br/>Allen's homage to Italian film-making in general and ''[[Casanova 70]]'', [[Michelangelo Antonioni]], and [[Federico Fellini]] in particular, about Gina, a woman who can only reach orgasm in public.
# ''Are Transvestites Homosexuals?''<br/>Sam Musgrave, a middle-aged married man, experiments with women's clothes.
# ''What Are Sex Perverts?''<br>A parody of the television [[game show]] ''[[What's My Line?]]'' called ''What's My Perversion?'', filmed in [[Black-and-white|B&W]] [[kinescope]]-style and hosted by [[Jack Barry (game show host)|Jack Barry]].  The four panelists who attempt to guess the contestant's perversion are [[Regis Philbin]], [[Robert Q. Lewis]], [[Pamela Mason]], and Toni Holt.  After they fail to guess that the contestant's perversion is "Likes to expose himself on subways," a second segment of the show is presented, in which a selected viewer (in this case a rabbi) gets to act out his [[bondage (BDSM)|bondage]] and [[humiliation (BDSM)|humiliation]] fantasy while his wife [[Kosher foods#Permitted and forbidden animals|eats pork]].
# ''Are the Findings of Doctors and Clinics Who Do Sexual Research and Experiments Accurate?''<br/>Victor, a sex researcher, and Helen Lacey, a journalist, visit a Dr. Bernardo, a researcher who formerly worked with [[Masters and Johnson]] but now has his own laboratory complete with a lab assistant named [[Igor (character)|Igor]].  After they see a series of bizarre sexual experiments underway at the lab and realize that Bernardo is [[mad scientist|insane]], they escape before Helen becomes the subject of another of his experiments.  The segment culminates with a scene in which the countryside is terrorized by a giant runaway breast created by the researcher.  The first part of this segment is a parody of [[Ed Wood]]'s ''[[Bride of the Monster]]'' (1955), and especially, ''[[The Unearthly]]'' (1957), which also stars John Carradine. The second part parodies many of the "Giant" monster movies of the 1950s.
# ''What Happens During Ejaculation?''<br/>The [[NASA]]-like mission control center in a man's brain is seen, as he gets involved in a sexual clinch with an [[New York University|NYU]] graduate (knowledge that she is a graduate of NYU assures coital success). As he achieves orgasm, the soldier-like, white-uniformed sperm are dispatched [[paratrooper]]-style into the great unknown.

==Cast==

* [[Woody Allen]] as Victor / Fabrizio / The Fool / Sperm
* [[John Carradine]] as Dr. Bernardo
* [[Lou Jacobi]] as Sam Musgrave
* [[Louise Lasser]] as Gina
* [[Anthony Quayle]] as The King
* [[Tony Randall]] as The Operator
* [[Lynn Redgrave]] as The Queen
* [[Burt Reynolds]] as Sperm Switchboard Chief
* [[Gene Wilder]] as Dr. Ross
* [[Jack Barry (game show host)|Jack Barry]] as Himself
* [[Elaine Giftos]] as Mrs. Ross
* Toni Holt as Herself
* [[Robert Q. Lewis]] as Himself
* [[Heather MacRae]] as Helen Lacey
* [[Pamela Mason]] as Herself
* [[Sidney Miller (actor)|Sidney Miller]] as George
* [[Regis Philbin]] as Himself
* [[Titos Vandis]] as Stavros Milos
* [[Stanley Adams (actor)|Stanley Adams]] as Stomach Operator
* [[Oscar Beregi (actor, born 1918)|Oscar Beregi]] as Brain Control
* [[Alan Caillou]] The Fool's Father
* [[Don Chuy]] as Football Player
* Dort Clark as Sheriff
* [[Erin Fleming]] as The Girl
* [[Geoffrey Holder]] as Sorcerer
* [[Baruch Lumet]] as The Rabbi
* [[Tom Mack]] as Football Player
* [[Jay Robinson]] as The Priest
* [[Ref Sanchez]] as [[Igor (character)|Igor]]
* [[Robert Walden]] as Sperm
* [[Norman Alden]] as Switchboard

==Soundtrack==
* "Let's Misbehave" (1927) - Music and Lyrics by [[Cole Porter]] - Played by [[Irving Aaronson and his Commanders]]
* "Battle Hymn of the Republic" (circa 1856) - Music by [[William Steffe]] - Lyrics by [[Julia Ward Howe]]
* "Red River Valley" (1896) - Music by James Kerrigen - Played on harmonica by Woody Allen<ref>((cite book |last= Harvey |first= Adam|date= 2007|title= The Soundtracks of Woody Allen|location= US |publisher= Macfarland & Company,Inc |page=62 |isbn=9780786429684))</ref>

==Critical response==
The film holds an 89% "Fresh" rating of on the [[Review aggregator|review aggregation]] website [[Rotten Tomatoes]], based on 19 reviews.<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/everything_you_always_wanted_to_know_about_sex_but_were_afraid_to_ask/|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|title=Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, Movie Reviews|access-date=January 23, 2012|archive-date=December 24, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111224163937/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/everything_you_always_wanted_to_know_about_sex_but_were_afraid_to_ask/|url-status=live))</ref>

An August 1972 review by ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' said that many of the film's ideas "sound good on paper" but that the "skits wind down rather than take off from the ideas"; the film includes "some broad, funny send-ups of other movies (''[[Fantastic Voyage]]'', ''[[La notte]]''), and its fair share of memorably wacky lines" but that "overall it is just Woody marking time and being merely a little funnier".<ref>((cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,878031,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090221032550/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,878031,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 21, 2009|title=Flailings and Failings|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|date=August 21, 1972|access-date=June 8, 2007))</ref>

The ''[[Time Out (company)|Time Out]] Film Guide'' noted that some of the film's sketches are "dross, but the parodies of [[Michelangelo Antonioni|Antonioni]] (all angst and alienation of a wife who can achieve orgasm only in public places) and of TV panel games ('What's My Perversion?') are brilliantly accurate and very funny. Best of all is the sci-fi parody entitled ''What Happens During Ejaculation?''"<ref>((Cite web |url=https://www.timeout.com/film/64073.html |title=Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, But Were Afraid to Ask movie review - Film - Time Out London<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2020-04-28 |archive-date=2005-03-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050301082521/http://www.timeout.com/film/64073.html |url-status=live ))</ref>

In 2004, [[Christopher Null]], founder of filmcritic.com, called it a "minor classic and Woody Allen's most absurd film ever".<ref>[http://www.filmcritic.com/misc/emporium.nsf/reviews/Everything-You-Always-Wanted-to-Know-About-Sex-*-But-Were-Afraid-to-Ask Film review] ((webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081204100633/http://www.filmcritic.com/misc/emporium.nsf/reviews/Everything-You-Always-Wanted-to-Know-About-Sex-*-But-Were-Afraid-to-Ask |date=2008-12-04 )) by [[Christopher Null]], founder of filmcritic.com</ref>

==Censorship==
The film was banned in [[Ireland]] on March 20, 1973.<ref name=boardsielist>((cite web|title=Films banned in Ireland|url=https://www.boards.ie/b/thread/113288|website=boards.ie|access-date=4 March 2018|archive-date=5 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180305063023/https://www.boards.ie/b/thread/113288|url-status=live))</ref> A cut version was passed in 1979 and released theatrically in 1980, removing both a bestiality reference ("the greatest lay I ever had", referring to a sheep) and a man having sex with a loaf of rye bread. The ban on the uncut version was eventually lifted.<ref>((cite web|title=Censored! As a 1978 movie is banned, John Meagher looks at 70 years of cuts|url=https://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/censored-26683890.html|website=The Irish Independent|date=25 September 2010 |publisher=The Irish Independent|access-date=4 March 2018|archive-date=5 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180305062858/https://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/censored-26683890.html|url-status=live))</ref><ref>((cite web|title=Song Contest Tied|url=http://www.melonfarmers.co.uk/arin04d.htm|website=Melon Farmers Censorship Watch|publisher=The Irish Independent|access-date=4 March 2018|archive-date=4 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180304231754/http://www.melonfarmers.co.uk/arin04d.htm|url-status=live))</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of American films of 1972]]

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