Word: sexualism
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...Between my childhood and my daughter's, we've had various revolutions, feminist, sexual, technological. Sex became dangerous again: you may be less likely to get pregnant but more likely to get an STD. When I was in school, it was a major breakthrough when we were permitted to wear pants to class in the winter. I now see girls heading to school who appear to have forgotten to get dressed at all that morning. We were told if we worked really hard, we could accomplish anything boys could; now it would never occur to girls to think otherwise...
...countries. Among his innovations is World Toilet Day, this Nov. 19, which is meant to publicize the plight of billions of people who go without toilets and fight the taboo that nearly all cultures have about business in the bathroom. That quiet embarrassment - similar to the hush around sexual practices that once muffled AIDS activism - keeps sanitation out of the world's top health priorities, and ensures that even those who go without toilets suffer in silence. Sim, his fellow activists and George are determined to make their voices heard...
...just amazing to be able to hear poetry from a thousand years ago,” said Jeremy N. Tran ’09, last year’s president of the Vietnamese Association, “Vietnamese poetry isn’t boring. It’s quite sexual and talks a lot about desire and being drunk,” said Trieu H. Ton ’11, one of the coordinators of the summit. “Bich also sang for us, and talked about how Vietnamese music is quite original.” According to Tran...
...film is full of slightly weird children, plus a certain amount of sexual tension - you may be an in-law, but that doesn't necessarily mean you're sexually uninteresting to someone else in the crowded family manse - but none of this turns A Christmas Tale into a farce. Desplechin is aware of the humorous cross-currents in the film, but he's not out to exploit them. He's a more serious filmmaker than that, interested in exploring the wayward, occasionally inexplicable tensions of a group bound together more by the accidents of birth than by any true communality...
Instead, Diggs focused on negative aspects of sexual promiscuity and premarital sexual activity, stating that their effects extend beyond easily calculable STD statistics to include more nuanced social ramifications...