Word: eroticizing
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They are not as easily stimulated to sexual response as are men. Most of them get no reaction from seeing the male form in the nude, from "beefcake" pictures of undraped athletes, or from erotic stories. What every woman wants, Kinsey has gathered from long hours of listening, is "a...
The world, in fact, has been so fascinated with the erotic side of George Gordon, Lord Byron, that it has almost forgotten that he was, after all, a rock of strength as well-allowing for a few streaks of soft shale in the composition. The Selected Letters of Lord Byron...
Imaginary Angria. As Mrs. Gaskell surveyed the ruin of the Brontës-Charlotte, Emily and Anne destroyed by consumption, their brother Branwell wrecked by opium and liquor-she could hardly resist making their father the villain of her story. In her version, Parson Brontë emerged as a man...
A STRANGER joining the Kinseys and staff on one of their picnics would never suspect that these nice, comfortable faculty folks were engaged in studies any more stimulating than the use of the comma in Chaucer. Visitors are exposed to the same paradox in Kinsey's plant, which is...
She never again wrote good poetry. She was found dead in the isolated country house in Austerlitz, N.Y., where she had lived alone since the death of her husband in 1949. Even near the end, sick and broke, she refused her publisher's proposition to compromise what she had...