We are the comic relief; the food obsessed; the desexualized maternal character.
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Especially with fatness in general, it's easy for women to feel desexualized.
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"We [Muslims] desexualized spirituality, but in Islam, sex is a sacred act," she said.
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Feminine or gender-nonconforming gay men, on the other hand, are desexualized comedic relief.
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Sex is a classic hot seller but old people are often desexualized in popular culture.
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When operettas enjoyed a resurgence after World War II, they were desexualized, sunny and hardly subversive.
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It has also led to the stigmatization of HIV-positive individuals as toxic or wicked—and desexualized.
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Before those films, Baldwin actually talked around these issues in The Devil Finds Work, that black men are desexualized.
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In 2013, I began experimenting with the dating website OKCupid because I wanted to explore this concept of being desexualized.
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And I wanted to do it in a place so desexualized that only I would know what was going on.
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Arriving in the 2017 release of the Amonkhet expansion is Naga Vitalist: a lady snake with an unusually desexualized depiction.
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Similarly, "The Waves," Noé Soulier's new dance, offered four women and two men in a desexualized, ungendered world of pure movement.
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Often when black men radically create themselves outside of traditional constructions of black masculinity, they end up being desexualized, like Little Richard.
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But both say they've had people look at them, or hear their ages, and clearly instantly mentally write them off as desexualized beings.
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As black Muslim women, our bodies are heavily policed in public—both hypersexualized because of our blackness and desexualized because of our Muslim identity.
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Carter-Kahn: I don't want to be hypersexualized or desexualized; I just want to be afforded the same neutrality as other bodies existing in space.
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Israel is now trying to purge "itself" of this Ashkenazi "them"—this puny desexualized sect that delegitimates the country by reminding it of its paternity.
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But contrary to pop culture depictions and common beliefs, people with SCIs are not inherently desexualized, nor is sex dangerous for, or meaningless to, most of them.
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But acceptance of LGBT people has also rarely extended beyond the bounds of the sort of gay person Ellen represents: white, wealthy, desexualized, monogamous; neutered and relatively nonthreatening.
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Austyn is to them what Leonardo DiCaprio was to preteens in the early aughts: a desexualized pretty boy to project upon from the safety of one's own home.
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The easy trope for Violet to play into would be that of the desexualized mammy — an older Black woman who isn't eligible for love, romantic pleasure, or companionship.
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"You have to remember, this is a totally desexualized environment with no privacy," said Brenda Smith, a law professor at American University who studies sexuality and rape in prison.
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Other plays characterized Asian men as effeminate and desexualized, stemming from the societal fear that they would reproduce with white women and pose an existential threat to the race.
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Unlike his "popnography" works in series like Sex is Life is Sex, "Manhattan Penis Drawings" are about as erotic as Dr. Seuss creatures, desexualized and abstracted into weird shapes.
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There's no visceral response to Amazon owning and storing a literal copy of my desexualized, nearly nude body, some anonymized rendering of ones and zeros that's useful only in large quantities.
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It's impossible not to note the irony of an Asian man—one of the most desexualized demographics in American culture—co-founding one the most sexually explicit hip-hop groups in history.
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" But Keating also takes on the consequences: "Acceptance of LGBT people has also rarely extended beyond the bounds of the sort of gay person Ellen represents: white, wealthy, desexualized, monogamous; neutered and relatively nonthreatening.
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Liu, currently seen on CBC's Kim's Convenience and as Faaron on NBC's Taken, said that as a teenager he had a lot of trouble dating because he felt like Asian men were desexualized by the media.
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The new trailer does have funny moments: Taystee (Danielle Brooks) is now manning Caputo's (Nick Sandow's) phones, and the new Martha Stewart-type inmate, Judy King (Blair Brown) is declaring to Poussey (Samira Wiley) that she won't be desexualized.
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When they were portrayed at all in 20th-century American movies, Asian men were often cast as servants, deviants or as wily and desexualized, said Daryl Maeda, a professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder, who is working on a cultural biography of the actor.
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But make no mistake, the work is as intelligently, craftily political as it is personal: In an age when we're constantly calling out the objectification of women, Sherman's work forces us to gaze at not just women, but older women who are consistently desexualized, stigmatized, and written off by our culture.
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What makes the revelations of the #MeToo movement so "scandalous," then, is the extent to which society at large and Hollywood in particular had previously bought into the idea of itself as a place where this sort of behavior was no longer accepted: where men are woke, or are, at the very least, not dicks with buttons under their desks to lock their doors; where sexual assault is rare, reported, and punished; where women can have any job they put their minds to; where women in power are celebrated instead of masculinized, desexualized, and viewed as threats; where women don't willfully collaborate in covering up the mistreatment of other women; where the success of Wonder Woman means Hollywood will consider the roles and directoral chances it offers women; where no one is in the closet; where every star's true self is laid bare in every interview, every Instagram, every statement screenshot from the Notes app and posted on Twitter.
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Some analysts have said that this points to an inclination among latter millennials and Generation Z to have hyposexual and desexualized tendencies.Twenge, Jean M., Ryne A. Sherman, and Brooke E. Wells. "Declines in sexual frequency among American adults, 1989–2014." Archives of sexual behavior 46.8 (2017): 2389-2401.
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Her design was inspired by Cassandra Peterson's character Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. The Dark Queen was planned to be also featured in a planned Battletoads fighting game, but Rare ended up creating Killer Instinct instead. She returns in the 2020 Battletoads reboot, albeit in a radically redesigned, desexualized appearance.
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", National Post, p. W06. However, these other characters were mostly desexualized, none were partnered or shown consistently affectionate towards the same person. Willow and Tara's relationship became the first long-term lesbian relationship on U.S. television. Jane magazine hailed Willow and Tara as a bold representation of gay relationship, remarking that "they hold hands, slow-dance and lay in bed at night.
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In Francoist Spain, the female body was stripped of its physicality and made into a desexualized object. They existed only for utilitarian reasons only. They were things for use by the state to discover female moral and criminal transgressions. Despite Francoist invocations to desexualize women and transform them exclusively into mother figures, society still had idealized feminine forms that were often most visible in films of the era.
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Where does this neutral energy come from? The answer may lie in sexuality—in a “narcissistic reservoir of libido... [that is] desexualized Eros.” This process of desexualization occurs, according to Freud, when libidinal energy passes from the id (its origin) into the ego—which (through a process called “sublimation”) abandons the original sexual aims and utilizes the energy to fuel thought and self-interested motility (62). The libido is, therefore, transformed into energy that can be applied toward creative or destructive aims.
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Gerschick also argues that this stigmatization can affect the gendering process and self-representation of people with disabilities. Feminists also look into how people with disabilities are politically oppressed and powerless. Abby L. Wilkerson argues that people with disabilities are politically powerless because they are often desexualized, and the lack of sexual agency leads to the lack of political agency. Wilkerson also indicates that the erotophobia towards minority groups like people with disabilities further oppresses them, since it prevents these groups from gaining political power through sexual agency and power.
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The me and the I give way to "the man without name, without family, without qualities, without self or I...the already-Overman whose scattered members gravitate around the sublime image" (90). Empty time is associated with Thanatos, a desexualized energy that runs through all matter and supersedes the particularity of an individual psychic system. Deleuze is careful to point out that there is no reason for Thanatos to produce a specifically destructive impulse or 'death instinct' in the subject; he conceives of Thanatos as simply indifferent. Nietzsche, Borges, and Joyce are Deleuze's authors for the third time.
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This transition, from a desexualized image of Virtue to a more sexual and aggressive woman, is signaled in Giorgione's Judith (c. 1505): "Giorgione shows the heroic instance, the triumph of victory by Judith stepping on Holofernes's severed, decaying head. But the emblem of Virtue is flawed, for the one bare leg appearing through a special slit in the dress evokes eroticism, indicates ambiguity and is thus a first allusion to Judith's future reversals from Mary to Eve, from warrior to femme fatale." Other Italian painters of the Renaissance who painted the theme include Botticelli, Titian, and Paolo Veronese.
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Representations of the Eastern harem by male artists were largely based on fantasy as men could not enter these womanly spaces, therefore their sexuality was exaggerated to conform to male fantasies. Her ability to visit a harem allowed her to paint harem scenes differently than men. She does not objectify the women, but rather presents a calm and controlled domestic space, excluded men from the scenes, and painted with a more subdued color palette (Inge 13). Browne's greatest contribution was that she debunked cultural and sexual myths about the harem as she desexualized and domesticated the site.
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Although de la tierra did not come out as lesbian until 1982, she knew she was attracted to females around the time she reached age 10 or 11. When she was young, she would explore the female body by creating games to play with some of her girl friends that included looking at each other's nipples and vaginas. However, when she became a teen de la tierra desexualized herself because some of her friends and peers made her feel like outsider for being so curious about sexuality. From then on, she only harbored secret crushes on girls, and did not have any romantic partners while growing up.
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The West is described as under greater influence of traditional gender roles (i.e. women as housewives having certain duties to their husbands), the concept of family, a Church-driven morality, a taboo on discussing sex publicly or with children, a commercialization of sex (especially through pornography), and the idea of sex as a form of prestige. The East is characterized as more sexually liberal because of its disregard of gendered expectations of womanhood, its public sex education, desexualized practices of nudism adopted by 90% of the population, and women's independence. This independence is attributed to their high level of employment and the public child-care system, and its consequent higher level of gender equality in economic terms, but also to easier divorce processes and easier access to contraception and abortion.
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Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.. In our digital society, social media provides another cultural space where these identities have to be negotiated. When adhering to respectability norms online, users consider sexual expression and whether or not they want to disclose certain social and sexual practices. In terms of sexuality, respectability politics online values sexual discretion and desexualized self-presentation. The performance of traditional gender roles and sexist social norms define and contribute to the notion of sexuality being viewed as unrespectable. Substantially affecting women, sexuality and respectability online concentrate on the “negative ramifications of explicit female sexuality.” User content and language that projects sexually explicit material and sexualization is frowned upon, enticing users to self-censor their online identities and limit participation on social media to avoid negative judgement.
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Some scholars argue that it is important that the breast is partly or fully covered to be erotic.Brett Lunceford, Naked Politics: Nudity, Political Action, and the Rhetoric of the Body, page 130, Lexington Books, 2012, French semiotician Roland Barthes observed, "Woman is desexualized at the very moment when she is stripped naked";Roland Barthes, Mythologies, page 84, Hill and Wang, 1972, while historical commentator Susan L. Stanton observes, "There is no mystery in a naked breast, there is no need to fantasize about what is beneath the clothing."Susan L. Stanton, Being Naked: Attitude towards nudity through the ages, page 9, Ablaze Press, 2001, According to author Marilyn Yalom in A History of the Breast (Ballantine Books, 1998), around these times, male thinkers decided a nursing mother's breasts were both erotic and a source of nourishment for future citizens of the nation.
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For instance, the still widely held view that "science fiction and fantasy are men's genres" has been refined by some to distinguish between science fiction as a genre mainly appealing to men, and fantasy, which is generally seen as being more accommodating to womenTuttle, Lisa. "Gender"; Clute, John and Grant, John The Encyclopedia of Fantasy; United Kingdom; Orbit Books, 1997; p. 393 (some subgenres, particularly urban fantasy, with female protagonists, and paranormal romance are seen as being more popular with women than with men). Little formal study has supported any of these distinctions, whether based on readers, writers, or characters. This perception has often been upheld and enforced by men, perhaps to protect themselves from what fandom researcher Henry Jenkins called the stereotype that “men are feminized and/or desexualized through their intimate engagement with mass culture”.
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In 1986, he divorced and underwent a year of therapy, which the Encyclopedia of Judaism says contributed to his 1999 book Happiness is a Serious Problem. In 1990, he wrote an essay called "Judaism, Homosexuality and Civilization" that argued against normalizing homosexuality in the Jewish community and placed sexual sins on a continuum from premarital sex, celibacy, adultery, homosexuality, bestiality, and incest; he argued that confining sex to heterosexual marriage desexualized religion, which was a great achievement of ancient Jewish tradition that was worth fighting to retain. By 1992, he was remarried. By that time he was, according to the Los Angeles Jewish Journal, a "fixture on local radio" and "a Jewish St. George battling the forces of secularity on behalf of simple 'goodness'", and generally socially conservative, with some exceptions; he supported a woman's legal access to abortion (although he said it was usually immoral), and supported and justified sex between non-married consenting men and women.
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Cristofano Allori, Judith with the Head of Holofernes (1613) Judith and Holofernes, the famous bronze sculpture by Donatello, bears the implied allegorical subtext that was inescapable in Early Renaissance Florence, that of the courage of the commune against tyranny. In the late Renaissance, Judith changed considerably, a change described as a "fall from grace"—from an image of Mary she turns into a figure of Eve. Early Renaissance images of Judith tend to depict her as fully dressed and desexualized; besides Donatello's sculpture, this is the Judith seen in Sandro Botticelli's The Return of Judith to Bethulia (1470–1472), Andrea Mantegna's Judith and Holofernes (1495, with a detached head), and in the corner of Michelangelo's Sistine chapel (1508–1512). Later Renaissance artists, notably Lucas Cranach the Elder, who with his workshop painted at least eight Judiths, showed a more sexualized Judith, a "seducer-assassin": "the very clothes that had been introduced into the iconography to stress her chastity become sexually charged as she exposes the gory head to the shocked but fascinated viewer", in the words of art critic Jonathan Jones.
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