Word: erotica
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...power to debase, as well as to sanctify. In the film, the lovers' first encounter is violent, verging on rape; later, when they twist into a fleshy pretzel, their embrace becomes a shelter from the dangerous outside world. The censors who have branded Lee's film as art-house erotica have got it all wrong. Lust, Caution isn't an adult movie - just a grown...
...class, nicknamed FemSex, began in 1994 at UC Berkeley. Initially, FemSex was a class about erotica, but has since expanded into the topics of sexuality and reproductive rights, anatomy, and pornography. Last winter, FemSex debuted at Harvard, and it was such a hit that this spring the course has been expanded into two sections...
...Libertine. Platinum is the new Marie-Antoinette. Leather is the new luxury. Veiling is the new seduction. Dior is the new Erotica.” Written on a wall in Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), designer John Galliano’s words sound more like one of Will Ferrell’s lines in “Zoolander” than an artistic credo.But Galliano’s words—shown next to his spring 2006 haute couture collection for iconic fashion house Christian Dior—are displayed with sober seriousness...
...time abroad had some residual interest in the cultures of Europe and Asia; and the souvenirs they wanted were not so much of the war they'd served in as of the women - war brides and whore-brides - they had encountered. So to add a touch of exotica or erotica to their movies, American producers imported actresses from France (Corinne Calvet, Francoise Rosay), Austria (Maria Schell), Japan (Miyoshi Umeki) and especially Italy (Alida Valli, Sophia Loren, Anna Magnani, Gina Lollobrigida, Silvana Mangano ... and the twins: Pier Angeli and Marisa Pavan). These actresses and others gave an appealing face, and body...
...this divide need not exist. All of us, male and female, experience seemingly innocuous social pressures that push us towards prescribed gender roles. For example, the public still sees female sexuality as taboo—porn and erotica almost exclusively target men, while most people treat female masturbation as either astonishing or shameful. Similarly, boys still grow up learning that to be a real man they have to be out winning the bread, not at home baking it with their kids. Culture tells people these differences are “natural,” and many internalize them so thoroughly...