though it be all about sex and woody allen everything you always want to know about sex ( but be afraid to ask ) be really all about movie . take dr. david reuben book and a pop culture phenomenon of the late 1960s and woody use it only a a starting point for indulge in his second great passion and film making . indeed and he toss aside most of reuben self help and non fiction sex manual and only quote chapter title a inspiration for his various vignette and each design to parody some aspect of our pop medium . what the book and the movie do have in common however be that they be product of their time ( post sexual revolution and pre politically correctness ) and a such their outlook on their common topic be a bit dated . sex and the movie and be best thought of a be seven individual short film while a few that be hilarious or at least clever and and a couple that just fall flat . the one that stray most from the movie a their source come off bad . for instance and be transvestites homosexual . be second rate sitcom represent middle age man be catch try on dress while visit his daughter new in law . it be a one gag skit and though burly lou jacobi make the most of the material a the giddy crossdressing poppa . meanwhile and what be sex pervert . begin with a clever concept and but be defeat by it own awkward attempt to be outrageous . stag a a 1950 tv game show grainy and black and white image and all what my perversion . look authentic and but try to trivialize sexual deviancy for dubious comic effect . scatter throughout woody filmography be toss off aside try to find snicker in wisecrack about rape or child molestation or incest and other sundry unfunny sexual tragedy and and invariably such unnecessary pseudo ad libs land with a resounding thud . what my perversion . be make up mostly of such discomforting quip and build to a joke about a rabbi get off by watch his wife eat pork . i think woody be the only person who ever find such cheap jab at rabbi even remotely funny . fortunately and the rest of he skits come off much and much good . the vignette do aphrodisiac work . make fun of shakesperean drama and other similar costume epic while while simultaneously pay homage to one of woody screen idol and bob hope . like hope and woody contributes wisecrack anachronistic one liner a a lustful court jester with the hots for his queen . the bit isn not well write with woody rely far too heavily on intentionally awful pun and but play allen low camp humor about chastity belt off the high toned pomposity of elizabethan drama somehow make it work decently . the two best vignette also work well because woody play them close to the style of their inspiration . be the finding of doctor and clinic who do sexual research accurate . mimic cheesy and grade d and drive in horror movie of the sixty with mad scientist john carridine ham it up gleefully in a calculated self parody . the absurd premise involve a giant mutant female breast terrorize the countryside ( the cream slow him up and the milk kill him . ) build to the most awesomely silly climax in any woody allen movie . the segment be top however by what happen during ejaculation . which take the phrase mechanical sex to it most logical extreme . the segment mimic the kubrickian coldness of contemporary sci fi and portray the male human body a a giant and and not particularly coordinate and space station on a carnal mission to boldly go where other men have apparently come and go before . with woody take a small role ( literally ) a an anxious sperm await for his first and only mission and the segment be silly and yet true enough to almost be worthy of inclusion in a basic biology class . yet and from a somewhat a different perspective the remain episode might be the most intriguing . they be what be sodomy . and do some woman have trouble reach orgasm . while the former be about a doctor ( gene wilder ) who have an affair with a sheep and the latter about a woman ( louise lasser ) who be arouse by sex in public place . both be amuse in their own right and but the added consideration be that woody use them to parody the type of film he would soon eagerly try to imitate . sodomy and though hilarious in it deadpan way and be not all that different in stilted tone or pretentious theme from allen later effort like interior and another woman or husband and wife . and a such and the aloof ennui that he mimic from bergman and antonioni for orgasm would reappear with deadly earnest in those same film . it be curious that woody would eventually embrace stylistics that he have first find so easy to ridicule . maybe that be why he so ardently avoid any trace of humor in those late film and he realize just how easily they can lapse into self parody . with it leering and bawdy approach to sex and the film reflect little of reuben glib and simplistic text and instead have more in common with the pseudo sophisticated raunchiness of the playboy magazine of the era . yet in it juvenile way and there be something almost innocently naughty about the movie that make it almost quaint especially when compare to today standard of vulgarity . a such everything you have always want to know about sex be something of a period piece and reflect a time when be outrageously tasteless be something unique and not something tiresomely routine .