Facts from: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (*But Were Afraid to Ask)

A scene called What Makes a Man a Homosexual? was shot, featuring Allen and Louise Lasser as a black-widow spiders named Sheldon and Lisa. But it was deleted from American prints of the film. Still, it survived in some of the European versions

Why do Some Women have Trouble Reaching an Orgasm? was to be shot in the style of fifties neo-realist Italian comedies, but United Artists feared that this would alienate the audience.

Burt Reynold, who voluteered to appear as technicians in What Happens During Ejaculations, did a nude centrefold for the Cosmopolitan magazine in April 1972. His inclusion in the film had therefore an additional topicality.

Dr Reuben, the autor of the book Everything You Always..., saw the film as "... a sexual tragedy. Every episode in the picture was a chronicle of failure, which was the converse of everything in the book.&quat;

Lois Lasser talked Allen out of a Biblical sequence, based on the Old’s Testament’s famous masturbator, Onan. He was to be played by Woody himself.

The film became America’s tenth-highest moneymaker of the year.