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AUDIENCE: Is it true you masturbate?
The bulk of Rocky Horror participation is verbal. There is an almost constant dialogue between the audience and the film, similar to that between priest and congregation.
—Mark Siegel, The Rocky Horror Picture Show: More Than a Lip Service
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Weinstock, J.A. (2008). Heavy, Black, and Pendulous. In: Weinstock, J.A. (eds) Reading Rocky Horror. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230616820_5
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