Word: sexualizing
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...ultimate irony, Levy believes, is that American women have lost sight of their own sexual happiness in their pursuit to conform to male desires. Looking and acting like a porn star has simply replaced homemaking as the litmus test for twenty-first century women’s femininity...
...successfully prove her thesis, Levy spends many pages describing facets of America’s sexual culture, including Paris Hilton, the porn star Jenna Jameson, and “The Man Show...
...reverses into the Blitz. Her characters seem to be taking life one day at a time. Jealousy-riddled Helen and flighty Julia are lovers - but for how long? Helen's ex, Kay, after being fully incorporated into the war effort as an ambulance driver, finds herself marginalized for her sexual preferences. Vivien, who runs a lonely-hearts agency with Helen, worries about her brother, Duncan, recently released from prison. The book opens in 1947, jumps to 1944 and then back again to 1941, because Waters began a story set in postwar London, but found herself "completely sucked into" her research...
...thing to investigate allegations of sexual abuse by priests, but it's quite another to keep those priests from further abusing their positions of authority - something the Chicago Archdiocese recently learned the hard way. Earlier this month, Father Daniel McCormack, 37, a priest at St. Agatha Church in Chicago?s Lawndale neighborhood, was charged with three counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse against two boys from his parish, including one who was allegedly molested after the first accusations against McCormack surfaced last August. The case has shamed the archdiocese, which was hit with a $10 million suit last Friday...
...that earlier this week the Archdiocese announced a new approach in dealing with the investigations of sexual abuse by the clergy. From now on, the Church plans to remove priests almost immediately after they are accused - effectively putting them on the ecclestiastical equivalent of desk duty. The archdiocese?s current chancellor, Jimmy Lago, will oversee all probes of abuse allegations against priests across Chicago...