A lustful, rhapsodic husband makes an unsuccessful attempt to seduce his distant wife and is surprised when the tables soon turn.

With elaborate descriptions of the body, a husband muses about his relationship with his delicate wife. Reflecting on their good and bad days, the husband oscillates between worrying about their future and feeling passionate love.

A couple attends the show of a marvelous, sensuous, and regal African American singer in Paris. The wife of the couple finds herself struggling for a grip as the pleasure of seeing this performer infiltrates her fortress of restraint.

A woman has an affair with a female lover who works in retouching models and imagines retouching the woman's face and body. The lover carries multiple selves inside of her, one of them a muscular, furry, aggressive man whose body hers (the lover's) sometimes resembles in bed.

After a frustrating date—upset by the way even sex between women is shaped by patriarchal forces—a lesbian in NYC has sex with a male friend from college, determined to prioritize her pleasure over her learned instinct to satisfy the interests and egos of men.

At a mundane dinner party, adults dance the night away while two ten-year-olds hide and explore their bodies together.

A man who unknowingly talks to himself wonders why a woman who is satisfied with her marriage is having an affair with him.

A man fantasizes about courting his friend's wife, despite being married himself, with increasing desire.

A woman’s desperate desire for love in Paris leads to her some dark places.

A young woman recounts three times in her life when she felt emotions of an unexplainable transcendent love: watching a ballet for the first time, making eye contact with an attractive librarian in high school, and listening to an old professor lecture during night classes at a university.