The Venus Butterfly is a term used for various sexual techniques, one of which was the subject of the 1988 book The One Hour Orgasm.
In a hotel bedroom scene, it is implied that Markowitz uses the technique on his girlfriend, Ann Kelsey (Jill Eikenberry), with great positive effect.
The show received many letters and phone calls from viewers asking what it was and two requests to license the term.
[2] As described by writer and sex educator Sue Johanson in 2005, the Venus Butterfly is a variant of cunnilingus.
It involves using one's tongue on a woman's clitoris, using one's fingers on her vagina, and using the other hand in the perineal area, "even penetrating the rectum [i.e., anus] if that is pleasurable for her.