Word: sexualizing
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...just smashing them together. “Let me show you my arms” gets repeated again and again in the song “Throw,” and it’s up to you to decide whether it’s the slyest of sexual advances or a nod to heroin abuse...
...documented human history—but that, on a biological scale, these standards of aesthetics are, objectively and cross-culturally, unattractive. If you’re into extremely convoluted academic essays full of big words and citations, add Karl Grammar’s essay “Darwinian Aesthetics: Sexual Selection and the Biology of Beauty” to your summer reading list. He discusses how we evolved to think that fertility and health are sexy. Sexual selection in a nutshell: If people did not think that attributes linked to these positive characteristics were attractive, the human race would have...
DIED. John Money, 84, pioneering Johns Hopkins University sex researcher and psychologist who, during the 1960s, when any form of sexual ambiguity was deemed freakish, helped establish and legitimize the study of sexual identity; in Towson, Md. Stressing the psychological effects of gender issues, he consulted on the first sex-change operation at Hopkins and coined the terms gender identity and gender role...
...Testimony from Wyler and another former FLDS member, Richard Holm, coupled with birth certificates, swayed a Mohave County jury on July 7 to find Fischer guilty of sexual conduct with a minor and conspiracy to commit sexual conduct with a minor. Wyler and Holm testified in court on how polygamous marriages work and gave eyewitness accounts of Fischer and the girl's "flirtatious behavior." But the verdict was unusual - and, to critics of the alleged abuses in polygamous marriages, especially significant - in that it came without the testimony of the alleged victims. In the FLDS community that populates the twin...
...sexual tide had rushed in, and Ginzburg had gone to jail for the crime of having once stood on the beach with dry feet and dreams of an ocean spray. Like Lenny Bruce - whom we'll get to in a few weeks, on the 40th anniversary of his death - Ginzburg was a pioneer in, and a victim of, the art of the permissable. He was not a martyr,, exactly; he didn't die for our sins. But he did time so that we could legally enjoy those sins of the flesh. And he helped us realize that they weren...