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...beeps with her own groans as the song becomes increasingly overt. By the end, Britney has established that being a “mommy/mami” is simply one more reason to have sex. On title track “Circus” she couples her search for sexual regard with her search for the spotlight. “All eyes on me, in the center of the ring,” Britney both describes and demands over the sound of whip cracks. Whether or not her self-description as a circus freak is made in jest is both...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Britney Spears | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

...mind bein’ behind,” “I’ma touch you where the sun don’t shine,” and “Get on my vine and we can climb” convey nothing beyond base sexual innuendo. One thing that can be completely ruled out, however, is the possibility of Common’s sex object getting any literal sugar of her own: her trim physique is of utmost importance, and her only job is to “sweat like [she] was losin’ pounds...

Author: By Mark A. Vanmiddlesworth, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Common | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

...particular pleasure in consuming the ideas of black-ghetto-excess dysfunction. It used to not be ghettoized in setting because black people weren't always urban people, but the same images can be found in American history for centuries. So this idea that a certain kind of sexual deviance or violent behavior defines black culture has had a huge market in commercial mainstream culture for at least 200 years. Also, sexist images, which hip-hop has a lot of, seem to do very well across the cultural spectrum. So sexuality and sexual domination sell. Racial stereotypes sell. The market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tricia Rose, Author of The Hip Hop Wars | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

Even if you have not read the book, you're probably familiar with the plot. A 15-year-old lad named Michael Berg (David Kross, giving a splendidly modulated performance of teen angst, sexuality and intellectual aspiration) falls ill in the entrance of an apartment building in 1950s Germany. He is rescued by an attractive working-class woman named Hanna (Kate Winslet in a performance that heartbreakingly combines passivity and anger) who arranges his return home. When he comes back to thank her for her aid, they embark upon a heated sexual relationship, which, in due course, she abruptly breaks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Reader: Love and the Banality of Evil | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

...have it with an experienced older woman than it is to have awkward, fumbling encounters with someone just as innocent as you are. Yes, Fiennes' older Michael is an emotionally distant, even chilly figure. But it does not necessarily follow that that is a result of his adolescent sexual encounters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Reader: Love and the Banality of Evil | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

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