Don't Try This at Home, Folks

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Ang Lee and his flexibile stars

A sex counselor in China writes on his blog that he got a call for help from a frantic young woman whose boyfriend had tried to copy the athletic (balletic? Kama Sutric?) sex scenes in director Ang Lee's latest movie, the 1940s spy thriller Lust, Caution. She told him that their efforts had caused her great pain and even made her bleed. She apparently threatened to sue the director, too. The counselor advised her to see a doctor and reminded her that what they saw on the big screen was only a movie, not a sex manual. That advice is being repeated by other doctors in China, where numerous couples have been inspired by the steamy sex scenes in the movie to try something new. That despite the fact that the version released in theaters in China (and doing extremely well incidentally, pulling in some $12 million in its first couple of weeks ) has had all those sex scenes cut out by censors. Moral of the story? Well, as Reuters reports that Ang Lee has hinted that the sex scenes were real, it's either a) Don't believe everything you hear (or see), or b) Leave it to the pros.