sex object
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sex ob·ject
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a person regarded by another only in terms of their sexual attractiveness or availability:
we're now in a period when it is permissible for women to make men into sex objects.
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If you're going to use youse, be sure yez spell it correctly.(Wood on Words)(incorrect spelling and grammar in news articles)(Column)
Magazine article from: Communication World; 10/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...wood used as a building material, lumber. Random House Webster's College Dictionary (1997) says much the same and adds a person regarded as having exceptional qualifications: He's presidential timber. Needed? Timbre. RHWCD says of it, The characteristic quality...
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Prevalence of mobility and self-care disability - United States, 1990.
Newspaper article from: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report; 10/8/1993; 700+ words
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Words are what you make of them. (how the English language has changed through various inversions and meanings of terminology) (Column)
Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine); 11/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...This is little different from the coverup of the Iran-Contra arms for hostages controversy. In medieval times, a Duns was a person regarded with high-level, albeit subtle, intelligence. (The origin lies with the philosopher, John Duns Scotus.) Today, a dunce is...
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Fetishism
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
...sexually arousing fantasies generally involving non-human objects, the suffering or humiliation of oneself or one's partner...urges and sexually arousing fantasies involving specific objects. While any object may become a fetish, the distinguishing feature is its connection with sex or sexual ...
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sexuality
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...rather than people (humans had sex, a man's spermatozoa had sexuality...Studies in the Psychology of Sex (1897–1928), rather...sexual instinct from the sexual object, arguing that the very numerous...suitable member of the opposite sex — suggested that the...initially independent of ...
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Sextans
Book article from: A Dictionary of Astronomy
Sextans (abbr. Sex, gen. Sextantis) An obscure constellation on the celestial equator, representing a sextant. Its brightest star is Alpha Sextantis, magnitude 4.5. Its only object of note is the Spindle Galaxy , NGC 3115.
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physical fitness
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
combined good health and physical development. The object of any program of physical fitness is to maximize an individual's health, strength, endurance, and skill relative to age, sex, body build, and physiology. These ends can only be realized...
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gender
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology
...Oakley, who introduced the term to sociology, ‘“Sex” refers to the biological division into male and female...unequal division into femininity and masculinity’ (see Sex, Gender and Society , 1972 ). Gender draws attention, therefore...full-time jobs outside, and of discrimination in ...
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