Word: sexualism
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...Civil Union Bill passed by South Africa's national assembly; in Cape Town. If the bill is ratified as expected by Parliament's upper house and President Thabo Mbeki, South Africa will become the first African nation to grant the same legal status to all marriages regardless of partners' sexual orientation. It was proposed after the Constitutional Court ruled last year that laws prohibiting gay marriage violated a guarantee of equal rights in the constitution...
...might ask, as a boredatlamont.com poster did, "WHY DON'T U JUST COME OUT ALREADY" (Nov. 12, 5:40 p.m.), but perhaps naive impatience isn't always the solution. It certainly wasn't for one Robert N. Dole '68—not the senator— whose sexual encounter with his Phillips Exeter roommate led to a complaint to the Exeter infirmary and eventually to intermittent psychotherapy during both Exeter and Harvard...
...problems here. First of all, Tom Everett Scott, as the actor, doesn't for one moment convince us he's any manner of Hollywood star: no bearing, no ego, so nervous about his sexual encounter that he might be a middle-aged Neil Simon garment worker having his first fling with a hooker. The playwright (and director, Scott Ellis) want to be both naughty and cool. There's utterly no passion, not to mention plausibility, in this relationship. (Deadpan exchange: "Let's get started." "OK, I'll get aroused...
...have a veiled friend whose sister decided to wear the hijab at the age of five to emulate her older sister, and has not removed the scarf ever since. The little girl’s resolve is certainly remarkable, but her motivation, given her immaturity, is still troubling. What sexuality does a five-year-old have to hide? There is obviously no universal reason women decide to veil, but most see it as a combination of fulfilling an explicit obligation to God and as a protection against the unsolicited gazes that I so vehemently loathed in Egypt this summer. Those...
...throughout “Knife in the Water,” a three-person drama about a couple who, out of guilt, invite a hitchhiker who they’ve almost run over out for a day of boating. The anxiety explored in this film is of the awkward sexual variety, as the husband competes to prove his superior virility through a series of contrived tests of masculinity.What differentiates “High and Low” and “Knife in the Water” from modern attempts to wrestle with the issues they discuss (besides the language...