Word: libidos
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...intriguing both scientist and layman. Accompanying facts are as remarkable as the closeup images. The ubiquitous orange monarch, for example, is the only true round-trip migrant among the world's 20,000 species. Although only one family of butterflies is called satyrs, most males exhibit an aggressive libido as soon as they emerge from the chrysalis-they can detect females by odor, flight signals, and ultraviolet waves imperceptible to the human eye. Any colors that are perceptible are gathered here in a great rainbow of a book for collectors of butterflies, books, or examples of classic nature photography...
...religious healer believed the goal of psychiatry was to release and develop the divine within each individual. He broke with Freud by placing unsatisfied spiritual hungers rather than repressed sexuality at the center of personality disorders. Freudians could always counter that those pangs are just another symptom of stifled libido...
Madness on the inside, madness on the outside. In a mental hospital in Tuscany, Dr. Bonaccorsisi (Marcello Mastroianni) takes the insanity that rages all around him pretty much in his elegant stride. At times he takes advantage of it too. Pathology has a liberating effect on his libido. He flirts with patients and sleeps with three of the women he sees in the course of work...
...effects of heredity and environment. They also throw crockery at each other when angry, drink too much and wish that they could behave more sensibly than they do. At a time when most "adult" entertainment is a series of reductive immorality plays or overfleshed cartoons for the libido, this novel arrives as a glittering exception. It is conceived by an adult mind about adults for adults to read...
...play begins in bed as dawn lights up a snug hostelry called the Sea Shadows Inn. The time is 1951. Doris (Ellen Burstyn) and George (Charles Grodin), strangers less than 24 hours ago, have taken their first jittery plunge into adultery. He had aroused her libido the evening before by sending a steak over to her table...