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Promiscuity See also Profligacy. Anatol constantly flits from one girl to another. [Aust. Drama: Schnitzler Anatol in Benét, 33] promiscuous goddess of sensual love. [Gk. Myth.: Parrinder, 24] forever falling in love with young men. [Am. Lit.: The Sun Also Rises] scantily dressed, sex-loving, blonde astronaut. [Comics: Horn, 96] “a woman of Paris.” [Fr. Lit.: Camille] gave herself freely to every man she met; her illegitimate daughter became equally promiscuous. [Am. Lit.: Faulkner The Sound and the Fury in Magill I, 917] traveling husband not enough to fulfill desires. [Am. Lit.: A Lost Lady] fairy who makes love with, then abandons, women. [Br. Folklore: Briggs, 183–184] Hosea’s wanton wife. [O.T.: Hosea 1:1–3] Theresa Dunn haunts singles bars in a compulsive quest for the ideal lover. [Am. Lit.: Weiss, 267] wife of Emperor Claudius of Rome. [Rom. Hist.: Brewer Handbook, 701] though a wanton, Philip loved her above all else. [Br. Lit.: Of Human Bondage; Magill I, 670–672] |
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| I do not believe that there was in that genteel Bohemia an intensive culture of chastity, but I do not remember so crude a promiscuity as seems to be practised in the present day. Philip was now more comfortable, for space was so limited that there were only studies for boys in the upper school, and till then he had lived in the great hall in which they all ate and in which the lower forms did preparation in a promiscuity which was vaguely distasteful to him. American promiscuity, goodness knew, had been strange to him, but it was nothing to the queerness of American criticism. |
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