Word: neutering
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...States that much pornography is "neuter or amoral to most adults...
...occurs during a doleful evening in which Clara and three other skinless neurotics are bullied in a desultory way by a thick-skinned fifth person, Clara's frightful mother Laura. The other characters are Clara's drunken stepfather; her uncle, an exhausted, ironical pederast; and a middleaged, neuter male publisher who is a family friend. There is too much drinking, too much smoking, too much acute description of mental states. The author, unwilling to waste a scrap of anguish, views the browned-out scene through the eyes of each gloomy participant in turn. Boredom, peevishness and tobacco smoke...
...political neuter? There must be a certain pressure on anyone in your position to obliterate any public partisanship...
...further hedge against age and sex discrimination, the Department of Labor will issue a supplement to its Dictionary of Occupational Titles in May, rendering job titles inoffensively neuter- if offensively bland and even silly...
Fees and Fines. While private vets charge around $50 to sterilize a cat or dog, Los Angeles has introduced a model system of clinics that spay females for $17.50 and neuter males for $11.50, including all required shots. By thus limiting the number of abandoned pets, the city saves money. Increasingly, reputable dealers like Manhattan's Fabulous Felines will not sell a pet unless the buyer signs a binding contract to have it sterilized...