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Mastery
MASTERY The term mastery has several meanings in psychoanalysis. The first relates to the anal stage in infantile sexual development, as Sigmund Freud described it in Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905d). During this period in the structuring of the personality, the child is becoming... Read more |
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fetishism
fetishism in psychiatry, a paraphilia (see perversion, sexual ) in which erotic interest and satisfaction are centered on an inanimate object or a specific, nongenital part of the anatomy. Generally occurring in males, fetishism frequently centers on a garment (e.g., underclothing or high-heeled... Read more |
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Pornography
PORNOGRAPHY The representation in books, magazines, photographs, films, and other media of scenes of sexual behavior that are erotic or lewd and are designed to arouse sexual interest. Pornography is the depiction of sexual behavior that is intended to arouse sexual excitement in its audience.... Read more |
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Voyeurism
Voyeurism Definition Voyeurism is a psychosexual disorder in which a person derives sexual pleasure and gratification from looking at the naked bodies and genital organs or observing the sexual acts of others. The voyeur is usually hidden from view of others. Voyeurism is a... Read more |
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Hijra
Hijra ETHNONYM: Eunuch Orientation Identification. Hijras are a social group, part religious cult and part caste, who live mainly in north India. They are culturally defined either as "neither men nor women" or as men who become women by adopting women's dress and behavior. Hijras are... Read more |
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homosexuality
homosexuality a term created by 19th cent. theorists to describe a sexual and emotional interest in members of one's own sex. Today a person is often said to have a homosexual or a heterosexual orientation, a description intended to defuse some of the long-standing sentiment among many Westerners... Read more |
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eroticism
eroticism is a curious word — there even seems to be some confusion over whether it should be ‘eroticism’ or ‘erotism’. The earliest example given for the related term ‘eroticise’ — defined as to make erotic or to stimulate erotically —... Read more |
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Hans Bellmer
Bellmer, Hans (1902–1975). German-French graphic artist, painter, sculptor, photographer, and writer, all of whose work is explicitly erotic. He was born in Kattowitz, Germany (now Katowice, Poland). In 1922–4 he studied engineering in Berlin (compelled by his tyrannical father), but... Read more |
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Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele , 1890-1918, Austrian expressionist painter and draftsman, studied Vietta Academy of Fine Arts. Influenced by the French impressionists, then by Gustav Klimt , Schiele developed a taut, linear style, emphasizing attenuated anatomical structure in drawings and paintings that often have... Read more |
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Masturbation
Masturbation Definition Masturbation is the erotic stimulation of one's own genitals for pleasure. Description Masturbation is the self-stimulation of the sex organs, most often to the point of orgasm. Sixty to ninety percent of adolescent boys and 40 percent of girls... Read more |
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A history of erotic philosophy.
...distinction between the erotic life of antiquity...distinct subarea of philosophy arose. Professional...example, "What is sexual activity?" or...that he had "sexual relations with...or permissible sexual behavior?" This...ontological and ... |
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French author deals in the currency of controversy
...stigmatization, sexual abuse and...measure by moral philosophy and leaps of the erotic imagination...artwork and sexual paraphernalia...defense of his philosophy of libertinism...The Word 'Desire'." A ... |
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The broken wings of eros: Christian ethics and the denial of desire. (Notes...
...art and the moral life are beginning...Doty. "As if desire is our enemy...part of us that desires, that loves...into Christian sexual ethics, and...mythology and philosophy to some of the...incorporating the erotic into ... |
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The 2007 meeting of the society for Buddhist-Christian Studies: San Diego,...
...comparative philosophy. The first...to Catholic moral teaching on...chastity, desire, and concupiscence...portraits of sexual immorality in...intricate details of sexual behavior. Identifying...distinction between sexual ... |
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Schooling Sex: Libertine Literature and Erotic Education in Italy, France,...
...Literature and Erotic Education in Italy...language of shocking sexual explicitness...philosophical debate, and sexual politics. Part...Wolseley conflates sexual performance and...Aesthetic and moral considerations...the autonomy of ... |
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A Passion for the Worthy
...beauty and sexual attractiveness...with misplaced desires or for whom...early Chinese moral philosophies and on why...experience of erotic desires that discloses...the uses of desire parallels a...to ... |
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A passion for the worthy.(Critical essay)
...beauty and sexual attractiveness...with misplaced desires or for whom...early Chinese moral philosophies and on why...experience of erotic desires that discloses...the uses of desire parallels a...to ... |
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Yale: A great school for curious types; Birds do it, bees do it, but no one...
...where lectures on moral philosophy once got students...arousing, from erotic piercings to...of "Deviant Desires: Incredibly...the world of sexual subcultures from...a seminar on sexual fantasies by...interactive workshop on ... |
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Arcadia. (theater reviews)
...for - and about - the heart. Moral philosophy, quantum mechanics, even Fermat...awakening is inextricably linked to an erotic desire for Septimus that she can barely...periods seethe with social and sexual intrigue. The plot clearly risks... |
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Book review / Getting nowhere with Ulrika, Kiki and Marie-Francoise
...emulate the artistic and sexual antics of such literary...no question about his desire to live a life which...that when it came to erotic encounters "where he...outline of a whole new moral philosophy, he was a dilettante... |
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