Word: explicitness
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...anyone who engages in a wide variety of activities, including "trafficking" ("to produce, sell, exhibit, or distribute") and "forcing pornography on a person." What this means is that someone who chooses to interpret certain words or images put forward in books, magazines, pictures, or speech as "the graphic sexually explicit subordination of women..." could sue anyone who creates, presents, publishes or sells the material. At this time of increasing vigilantism, any of us who in our teaching or in informal discussions or conversations refer to matters of sex or sexuality, be it in respect to art, literature, philosophy...
Many of the music industry's record companies have agreed in recent weeks either to label their albums with the warning, "Explicit Lyrics-Parental Advisory," or to print the song lyrics on the album jacket, the Associated Press reported last night...
...proposed law defines pornography as "the graphic, sexually explicit subordination of women through pictures and/or words." It would virtually ban all sexually explict material, giving local courts power to restrict the proliferation of material they deem pornographic, Dworkin said...
...theater is about ideas, but in this century George Bernard Shaw and his disciples have evolved an explicit Theater of Ideas, a vision of playwriting as a means of conducting urbane debates on great issues of the day. In these plays, beauty of language, depth of character and universal truths of human nature are subordinated to the stately combat of conflicting points of view, whether about feminism and prostitution in Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession (1902) or about the moral impact of colonialism in Tom Stoppard's Night and / Day (1978). The excitement comes from hearing important arguments stirringly...
...average instructor's grading rates about a C-plus or a B-minus, Marius said yesterday, citing a need for stricter standards and more explicit commentary...