Word: latent
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...with the transgendered. "This is what we call 'sensation seeking,'" says Caputo, who treats patients of all sexual orientations and identities. "Men who frequent the transgendered are after ambiguity, which can create strong [sexual] excitement." Caputo says the common notion that relations with the transgendered are a form of latent homosexuality misses the mark. Instead, he calls the attraction "homogenital," whereby someone seeks all the characteristics of the opposite sex, save the genitals, which he or she prefers to be like their own. As a sociological phenomenon, Caputo, wonders if the growing power of women in contemporary life and relationships...
...Long failed to acknowledge the phallic reference latent in the ticket’s name. The only pun that could possibly lie in the name’s reading, he said, is “long johns [underwear] on.” On that note, the pair took off their pants during a recent On Harvard Time interview to proudly showcase their tight undergarments...
More specifically, health-care advocates need to abandon ethics that prioritize the self over the common good in order for their efforts to bear fruit. Such privileging of autonomy extends from a series of judgments latent in contemporary common wisdom about morality—first, that each person should be free to pursue his desires so long as he does not harm anyone else; second, that such desires cannot be judged inferior to those of someone else. Taken together, these two judgments mean that health-care reform is incompatible with our national moral ethos. Public option or not, finding some...
...sometimes wonder what provocation it would take to unleash the Afghans' latent xenophobia, as happened with the Brits in 1842. The bombing of the tankers can't help, nor did revelations a few days ago that U.S. embassy guards were caught behaving like lewd frat boys around a bonfire. Luckily, in both instances, American officials here moved swiftly to apologize and minimize the damage, but there's no doubt that Afghan resentment toward foreigners is rising fast...
...center, noted that the survey showed 46% of Russians have faith in the authorities to bring peace to the North Caucasus. Five years ago, that figure was above 60%. Malashenko says there is no end in sight: "We should be prepared for a continuation of this state of latent civil...