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Eroticism Aphrodite novel of Alexandrian manners by Pierre Louys. [Fr. Lit.: Benét, 783] Ovid’s treatise on lovemaking. [Rom. Lit.: Magill IV, 45] frequently semi-nude heroine of sexy French comicstrip. [Comics: Berger, 211]
their idyll reconciles naïveté and sexual fulfillment. [Gk. Lit.: Magill I, 184] stories of sexual adventure including incest, perversion, prostitution, etc. [Am. Lit.: Anaïs Nin Delta of Venus in Weiss, 124] narrator of Cleland’s 18th-century novel of erotic experiences. [Br. Lit.: Cleland Memoirs of Fanny Hill] detailed Hindu account of the art of lovemaking. [Ind. Lit.: Benét, 538] a beautiful woman willing to undergo every form of sexual manipulation at the bidding of her lover. [Fr. Lit.: Pauline Reage The Story of 0 in Weiss, 445] Arabian manual of sexual activity. [Arab. Lit.: EB (1963) IV, 448] monthly magazine renowned for nude photographs. [Am. Pop. Cult.: Misc.] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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A fatal
disease--tuberculosis, also called consumption--provided a favorite
metaphor to represent the destructiveness of feverish emotions, such as
pining or amorousness. , by attending his
evening lectures (Hadfield 59, 65-66, 74), and a certain amount of
amorousness appears in his poems to her (not in the few reprinted in
David Bratman's edition of the masques, but see Fredrick and
McBride's mention of a poem about her breasts and another imagining
her bathing [34]); a controlled degree of amorousness in reply was no
doubt hoped for. Berman, who opens the
ballet's second half with flying waltzing, shaped the ballet's
plotless theme of coquetry and amorousness with her customary focus and
absorption. |
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