Word: explicitness
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...notes focused on individuals and were of a sexually explicit nature...
...same manner, I can feel comfortable complaining to my friends about my love life while many of my homosexual friends choose to keep quiet because the objects of their desire are illegitimate in the eyes of many people who hold explicit or implicit power at this school. When a socially conservative professor invites me to bring a "significant other" to a gathering, I can feel comfortable bringing a woman, while a gay man or woman might think twice before bringing their own significant others because they fear the effect such "outspokeness" might have on their academic life...
...What it did was it made something explicit that had been implicit in the policy," says Associate Provost Dennis Thompson, referring to the caution against linking Harvard's name to research projects and books that has now been codified...
What may attract attention and raise pulse rates, however, is that the latest re-translations in the Loeb series, which are published in both their original language (either Greek or Latin) and English, are more sexually explicit and easier to understand than the older texts they replace...
...Every generation people have new ideas," Fulton said. "In the past, it has been considered that we should not introduce sexually explicit material, even if the Greeks themselves were sexually explicit...