"Well, he doesn't see many movies," one of her friends remarks upon hearing that Marius isn't interested in having instant, torrid sex with Jeannette.

Leroy Douresseaux, writing for Comic Book Bin described A Foreign Love Affair as "a bawdy comedy ... with intermittent scenes of torrid sex."

"I keep him around for torrid sex," she said.

Both Phillips and Beckman have swallowed chunks of Kundera whole - each book has its scenes of torrid sex in artists' studios, and so on - but neither novel is really very European.

Some torrid, emotionless sex to purge Dia from his system.

On the other, Felix Teitlebaum, a balding, potbellied artist prone to fantasies of torrid sex with Eckstein's statuesque and unfulfilled Victorian missus.

On the series a feisty Margaret (Gabrielle Anwar) has torrid premarital sex on the high seas with one of Henry's closest friends.

Reigniting an affair with a former girlfriend now ready to leave her husband, Charlie quickly begins backing away after some torrid sex in his pickup.

Such a clash of values (plus some political intrigue and torrid sex) suggests a perfect book for the screen.

While it has its share of scheming lust (torrid sex in a department-store dressing room!