Sex, Lies, and Videotape

Ann:
You never used to say the word "f***ing."

Ann:
I've just got all this time on my hands, and I just sit around and start inventing these, like, intricate scenarios...

Ann:
And then I don't want to have wasted all my time, so I want to believe in them.

Ann:
Did he touch you?

Cynthia:
No.

Ann:
Did you touch him?

Cynthia:
No.

Ann:
Did anybody touch anybody?

Cynthia:
Well... yes.

Ann:
Don't tell me... don't tell me... don't tell me. You didn't!

Cynthia:
I did.

Ann:
You didn't!

Cynthia:
I did.

Ann:
You didn't!

Cynthia:
I did!

Ann:
Nothing's what I thought it was. John's a bastard. Let's make a videotape.

Graham:
No, I... ahem... I don't think that's a good idea.

Ann:
Why not?

Graham:
Because I don't think it's a choice that you'd make in a normal frame of mind.

Ann:
And what would you know about a normal frame of mind?

Ann:
So let me see, you said, um, you said that I should never take advice from someone that I haven't had sex with, right... right?

Graham:
Basically.

Ann:
Right. And, uh, *we* haven't had sex...

Ann:
right?

Graham:
So...

Ann:
So, I, I, I guess from your own advice, I shouldn't take your advice.

Graham:
I wouldn't.

Ann:
So, all these are... are interviews, huh?

Graham:
Uh, yes.

Ann:
Can we watch one?

Graham:
No, I'd - uh, no.

Ann:
Why not?

Graham:
Well, I... promised each of the subjects that no one would see the videotapes except for me.

Ann:
What are the interviews about?

Graham:
The interviews are about sex.

Ann:
Well, what did he ask exactly?

Cynthia:
Well, I don't want to tell you exactly.

Ann:
You let a total stranger record your sexual life on videotape, but you won't tell your own sister?

Cynthia:
Apparently.

Ann:
What kind of "personal project"?

Graham:
A personal project like anyone else's personal project. Mine's just a little more... personal, I guess.

Cynthia:
Ann, I don't understand why this freaks you out so much. You didn't do it, I did. And if it doesn't bother me, why should it bother you?

Cynthia:
If Ann got freaked out by these, there must be something sexual: are these tapes of you having sex with these girls?

Graham:
No, not exactly.

Cynthia:
Well, either you are or your aren't; which is it?

Graham:
Why don't you let me tape you?

Cynthia:
Doing what?

Graham:
Talking.

Cynthia:
About what?

Graham:
About sex... your sexual history, sexual preferences.

Cynthia:
What makes you think I'd discuss that with you?

Graham:
Nothing.

Cynthia:
Hmm. And you just want to ask me questions?

Graham:
I just want to ask you questions.

Cynthia:
That's all.

Graham:
That's all.

Cynthia:
Is this how you get off or something? Taping women talking about their sexual experiences?

Graham:
Yes.

Cynthia:
The organ itself seemed like a, a separate thing, um, a separate entity to me. I mean, when he finally pulled it out, and I could look at it and touch it, I completely forgot that there was a guy attached to it. I remember literally being startled when the guy spoke to me.

Cynthia:
You know, I'd like to do it at your house sometime. I must admit, the idea of doing it in my sister's bed gives me a perverse thrill.

Graham:
No, it's just - I - You know, I just think, right now I have *one key*, you know, everything I own is in the car, and I just... I like that; you know, I mean, I just - if I get an apartment, that's two keys, if I get a job, you know, um, I might have to open or close, that's more keys...

Graham:
One woman used up only 3 minutes, and another used three 2-hour tapes.

Graham:
So, I don't... I don't understand, uh, what made you want to come here. I can't imagine Ann painted a very flattering portrait of me.

Cynthia:
Yeah, well, see, um, I don't really listen to Ann when it comes to men. I mean, look at John, for Christ's sake.

Graham:
You're right, I've got a lot of problems... But they belong to me.

Ann:
You think they're yours, but they're not. Everybody that walks in that door becomes part of your problem. Anybody that comes in contact with you. I didn't want to be part of your problem, but I am. I'm leaving my husband, and maybe I would have anyway, but the fact is, is, I'm doing it now, and part of it's because of you. You've had an effect on my life.

Graham:
This isn't supposed to happen. I've spent nine years structuring my life so this didn't happen.

Graham:
Have you ever been on television?

Cynthia:
I'm not the one who stood up before God and everybody and promised to be faithful to Ann.

Ann:
I think that um... I think that sex is overrated. I think that people place far too much importance on it, and I think that stuff about women wantin' it just as bad as men is crap. I mean I think that women want it, I just don't think that they want it for the same reason that men think they do.

Graham:
I remember reading somewhere that men learn to love the person that they are attracted to, and that women become more and more attracted to the person that they love.

Ann:
You know, my therapist...

Graham:
You're in therapy?

Ann:
Aren't you?