Word: genitalia
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Accordingly, "Power, Pleasure and Pain" features as wide variety of approaches to female subjects, Images of empowerment include Nancy Spero's "To the Revolution: VII," which represents vigorous female archetypes and mythic goddesses joining contemporary figures moving toward an unseen goal, as well as Denise Carbone's "Genitalia Print," which is juxtaposed with a print of the artist's face...
...varies among ethnic groups, as does the degree of pain. In some African countries, it is only a piece of the clitoris that is cut off. In others, the labia minora are sliced away. Natural protuberances are viewed as ugly, the unchaste accoutrements of prostitutes. Elsewhere, the entire outer genitalia are removed and the two sides of the vulva sutured together until marriage, leaving only a tiny opening for the excretion of blood and urine. Infections and hemorrhaging are not uncommon; intercourse can be excruciatingly painful. The surgical methods are prescribed not by science but by a tradition that expects...
...This country was founded on individualrights," Yalen said. "People are valued for thecontent of their character, not for the color oftheir skin and not for their genitalia...
...instead of a lecture on the Medici dynasty or the War of the Roses, she found the professor using drawings of human genitalia to show that body image is a changing historical construct...
...with pierced ears may have shocked many people not so long ago, but now it takes a nose, eyebrow, tongue, navel, nipple, or even genitalia pierce to be considered radical...