Word: eroticizing
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A difference between black-market crimes and most others, like racketeering and robbery, is that they are "crimes" only because we have legislated against the commodity they provide. We single out certain goods and services as harmful or sinful; for reasons of history and tradition, and for other reasons, we...
The awesome calm of Indian art often bewilders Western viewers. The gods -- the usual subject of Indian paintings and sculpture -- maintain an expression of cosmic serenity even when engaged in brutal battle or erotic activity. Many Westerners find the lush anatomy and serpentine lines oversensuous and corrupt, and on the...
At first, Indians regarded art as only a means of arousing sensual pleasure. The two addorsed tree dryads of the first century A.D. (fig. 2 showing one side) show both the serenity of Indian art and the erotic sensuality. The Buddhists regarded Nirvana as the only aim of life and...
Most important, the state sets maximum limits on wages and prices-through "guideposts" in the U.S., the "freeze" in Britain-in order to protect the corporate-planned economy from inflation. Galbraith found it amusing that such control, though a reality, is nonetheless still approached "with great caution and circumspection, somewhat...
In content, this first commercial publication of My Secret Life makes Fanny Hill look like Mary Poppins. It rivals Casanova's memoirs in sheer size (2,359 pages) and weight (61 lbs.); and in the number of women dealt with (1,250 by the author's own count...