Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (film) Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (film) Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) is a 1972 comedy film directed by Woody Allen. It consists of a series of short sequences loosely inspired by Dr. David Reuben's book of the same name. The film was an early smash for Allen, grossing over $18 million in North America alone against a $2 million budget, making it the 13th highest grossing film of 1972. The credits at the start and close of the film are played over a backdrop
Literature in the 1970s such as those of Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie, and J. R. R. Tolkien. Books discussing sex such as "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)" were popular as authors took advantage of the lifted censorship laws on literature in the sixties. Exposés such as "All the President's Men" were also popular. Self-help and diet books replaced the cookbooks and home fix-it manuals that topped the sixties's charts. After the experimentation and sexual offence subject matter that exemplified some of the sixties' most definitive works of literature, the early '70s brought a return to old-fashioned