Word of the Day: esurient

esurient (adj)

Extremely hungry or greedy.

"That evening he had asked her to have dinner with him. From her report we gathered that the subject was a glib braggart in an esurient state of libido. For three nights she went out with him, staving him off with promises and excuses. In the meantime she got a complete story of what was going on in the film industry."
--David Thomson, The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood

Speaking of being in an "esurient state of libido", at the request of a (ahem) relative, we visited the Museum of Sex, at 233 Fifth Avenue in New York. It's not a very big museum, and a lot of it is about animals. They have lots of chimp porn there, if that's your thing, and an interesting exhibition of Hollywood and indie film clips that dealt with sex, either implicitly or explicitly. There was a whole genre of "nudie" films in the late 50s and early 60s that I never knew about -- all about nudist camps and lifestyle, featuring attractive people in the buff, but curiously unsexy. They also have that infamous Paris Hilton video, which I found somewhat icky, mostly due to the associations, not the content. Also rather creepy: a collection of life-size sex dolls, of both genders, that were more than correct, anatomically.