被感染了的女朋友对男主说:昨天晚上,我做了个奇怪的梦,梦见我和一个陌生人做爱。他又老又丑还有臭味,我感到反胃,但他说,一切都与性有关,你懂吗?他告诉我,即便年老的肉体也是能唤起肉欲的肉体,疾病是异种生物之间的相爱(disease is the love to two alien kinds of creatures for each other),甚至死亡也是一场肉欲的演出,言语是性行为,呼吸是性行为,乃至物理存在就是性。我相信了他,于是我们美好地做了爱。
PS 附第一节我所说的导演那段话的原文:
Venereal disease is very pro-sex, because no sex, no venereal disease. I know that some people think this is disgusting stuff, but in Shivers I was saying, 'I love sex, but I love sex as a venereal disease. I am syphilis. I am enthusiastic about it in a very different way from you,and I'm going to make a movie about it.' It's trying to turn things upside down. Critics often think I'm disapproving of every possible kind of sex. Not at all. With Shivers I'm a venereal disease having the greatest time of my life, and encouraging everybody to get into it. To take a venereal disease's point of view might be considered demonic, depending on who you are. In a way, Robert Fulford's attack on me at the time is more understandable; he was a good bourgeois, responding with horror to everything I did. He would not take the disease's point of view, not even for ninety minutes.