The Venus Butterfly is a fictional sexual technique which was first mentione in an episode of the 1980s American television drama L.A. Law ("The Venus Butterfly," November 21, 1986). In the episode, a bigamist client claims to have a miraculously effective sexual technique, which he reveals to his lawyer, Stuart Markowitz, played by Michael Tucker. The technique itself is never explicitly described to the audience, though it is implied in a hotel bedroom scene that Markowitz uses the technique on his lover, the character Ann Kelsey (played by Tucker's real-life wife, Jill Eikenberry), with great positive effect. The writer of that section of the episode, Terry Louise Fisher, stated that she simply made it up, but the show received many letters and phone calls from viewers asking what it was, as well as two requests to license the term. Over fifteen years later, actors on the show reported still being asked about it.