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Effeminacy Blue Boy Gainsborough painting depicting princely lad with sissyish overtones. [Br. Art.: Misc.] title-inheriting, yellow-curled sissy in velvet. [Am. Lit.: Little Lord Fauntleroy] personification of “sissy.” [Pop. Culture: 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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As is well known, the West has followed a remarkable path from Greek pederastic paideia politics (and centuries of its academic interpretation) (Percy, III, 1996), anti-masturbation crusades (Hall, 1991; Pryke, 2005), discussions of the Oedipal stage, the absent father, "developmentally expected" adolescent homosexuality (Spurlock, 2002), "gender disorder" (Sedgwick, 1993; compare Zucker & Spitzer, 2005), sissiness (Grant, 2004), and circumcision (e. |
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