Word: sexualizing
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...wrote of the "menace and hatred that homosexuals still face in being honest in the United State," have followed this tack. While it is certainly just to condemn Shepard's attackers, along with any other brutes who would so grossly violate the basic respect due all people (whatever their sexual orientation), it is disingenuous to decry Americans in general as "bigots" or "homophobes," suggesting a senseless hatred of homosexuals. To do so is to assert that there are no reasonable grounds for opposing homosexuality worthy of discussion...
...easily as has become common practice--rather, it must be examined and energetically engaged. Homosexuality might also be opposed cogently by traditionalists. To the suggestion that homosexuality ought to be approved and embraced, the starchy traditionalist might reasonably reply: "Thanks, but heterosexuality as the sole acceptable form of sexual expression has been working out tolerably well over the past couple of millennia--I think that we ought to stick with what we know." The best way to address this argument is to prove beyond a doubt that homosexual union is a viable, albeit heretofore unexplored, version of virtuous living. Even...
Historians have long debated whether Thomas Jefferson had a sexual relationship with one of his slaves, Sally Hemings. Now we have an answer. Retired pathologist Eugene Foster collected blood samples from 14 men, black and white, who claim to be descended from Jefferson. The distinctive, largely unchanging Y (male) chromosomes of Jefferson's white descendants, Foster writes in this week's Nature, almost precisely match those of descendants of Hemings' last son, Eston, who was born at Monticello in 1808. They do not match those of her first son, long thought to be Jefferson's, or those of Jefferson...
Strong argues that most self-mutilating behavior is a reaction to sexual or physical abuse, during childhood or adolescence. People, young women especially, who are violated in this manner feel out of control of their own emotions and bodies. Harming themselves is a way to respond to the clamor of emotions inside. After cutting, as Strong puts it, "they have moved from a place of passive helplessness to active control...
...Cambridge Police Department (CPD), which also responded to the report, classified the incident as a sexual assault. No further information was available from...