Word: eroticizing
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"Svacha takes off bridal veil and replaces it with kika (headdress of married woman). Father of bride gives away his daughter. Mother of bride leads her daughter to groom's parents. Father of bride strikes bride with whip (ancient ritual, symbol of submission) and then passes whip to groom...
Yet Baudelaire, in spite of arduous anc meticulous polishing, was not a skilful nor always successful prosodist, and his vocabulary was comparatively small. Gautier, his master, wrote better verse. Anc Joris Karl Huysmans, his disciple, was more artistically erotic.
Along with its faults, however, the "romance"--one hesitates to say operetta--has certain strong points. The voices of the main characters are with out exception remarkably good, and while the acting and directing leave much to be desired in the way of smoothness, the two leading ladies are a...
The 1928 prize for literature went to Norwegian Novelist Mme. Sigrid Undset. Achievements: early, realistic novels about erotic shopgirls; and, later, masterpieces of medieval grandeur.
"On arriving on the foreign-mission field, the new worker finds himself or herself in a totally foreign moral environment with a radically divergent system of sexual and personal ethics, which he or she is usually not prepared to combat. The possibilities for the stimulation and gratification of the sexual...