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A Dirty Little Secret.(humorous look at current trend involving grooming and sexual foreplay )

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A Dirty Little Secret

Forget what you see in the movies. For one man, sharing in a woman's beauty rituals is as hot as a cold shower. By Steve Friedman

When Warren Beatty expertly ran his fingers through the hair of many, many beautiful women's heads before seizing their hearts and other areas even more intimate, the idea of grooming as sexual foreplay was only slightly less transgressive than the possibility of a straight male hairdresser. I was just a kid when I first saw Shampoo, and I was shocked. Almost three decades and cultural eons later, male movie stars bathe their lovers (James Spader and Maggie Gyllenhaal, Secretary), paint their toenails ...

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