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All Good Sex Is Body Horror | The New Yorker

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The work of the director David Cronenberg proposes that transformation can attend disgust and that our desires might be elevated only when we are torn apart.

Save this story Save this story The residents of the apartment complex are respectable. There are doctors, lawyers, and a surplus of those drably enigmatic persons known as “young professionals.” The building itself, the Starliner Tower, on the outskirts of Montreal, is a modern construction, outfitted with the latest amenities: a heated swimming pool, a golf course, a delicatessen, a boutique. “Sail through life in quiet and comfort,” a calming advertisement instructs, and the residents are only too eager to comply. Still, out of an abundance of caution, there is a doctor’s office on the prem

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