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    discuss your essay “The Erotic, the Exotic, and the Space Inbetween: The Race for Feminist Waves.” I thought that your essay was not only an interesting application of Audra Lorde’s notion of “The Erotic as Power,” but also the exploitation of the erotic in traditional wave models of feminist movements. One of the aspects of your essay that I found really strong are the concrete examples of women reclaiming their erotic power. I find that I have trouble understanding erotic power due to the vague

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    story the readers see the narrator refer back to these words. The grandfather dies with a legacy that haunts blacks regardless of social, political, and economic progress. The social, political, and economic system is seen when the naked blonde’s erotic dance is described. Overall, this scene represents America’s distorted value system. The symbolism made by flag tattoo on the dancer is actually a depiction of the relentless pursuit of money, sex, and power. The men, in the room where the dancing

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    Beauty pageants have long been criticized for being shallow, idealistic, and detrimental to self-esteem. Despite such allegations, child pageantry has been gaining in popularity in recent years. In these pageants girls are dressed up in frilly dresses, mountains of makeup, and perform a little dance featuring hip shakes and shimmies, often not by their own choice. This rather extreme example demonstrates the prominence of sexualization of children today. Women have been viewed as objects simply for

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    harm the Individual, Family and Society; much effort remains to be done to enhance the criminal justice response to these wrongdoings (National Institute of Justice). Erotic aggravation has been an inevitable problem for females thru history, and only in these three ages have activist litigators attained the meaning of erotic harassment as a procedure of gender discrimination. Obscene remarks, motions, jokes, being grasped, pinched, or being brushed against are all methods of Harassment. As a

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    Davis suggests that Erotic reality begins less abruptly than it ends. This is at least the case for men, since females are believed to have a more gradual post sexual denouement following orgasm. The sociologist believes that the sensual slide into the erotic differs between the sexes due to the presence and degree of Erotic Inertia. Erotic Inertia is the force needed to overcome the resistance of a sexual partner against entering the Erotic. Those who have more erotic inertia have a tendency to

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    What role does love play in work and education? In “Uses of Erotic” by Audre Lord and “Brainology” by Carol Dweck both authors explain how love plays in both the workplace and in education. Lord explain that women have been shaped by society and men to oversee the actual definition of erotic and instead change the expression to mean pornography, something that is enjoyable for only men. While Dweck says when two groups of children are praised in a different way, one for their hard work and who are

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    Total Erotic Recall is a place where virtually anything can happen. In this virtual world, one can succumb to the pleasures of the mind in a way that the real world cannot compete. Join our tales to see what might be possible in the not too distant future. Story 1 and 2 Rebecca’s always wanted to explore her bi-sexual nature but it’s not until she wins a full day’s entertainment at the Virtual Reality Recall Gaming center that she realizes what she’s been missing. The Total Erotic Recall program

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    The Decent Society Avishai Margalit begins his book with a definition of a decent society, which according to him is such a society that does not institutionally humiliate its members and people in its orbit. In other words, it is a society that does not violate the rights of people that are dependent on it. Regarding institutions, he distinguished between their actual behaviour and the behaviour that they should perform according to the law. Society is then defined as a nation. He admits that there

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    eroticizing children in his essay, “Producing Erotic Children.” Kincaid uses several techniques, linguistic, and stylistic choices that differentiate his work from that of a standard scholarly essay, and keep readers engaged without repulsing them. The most damning accusation that Kincaid makes is that we use stories about child molestation and protest molestation to fantasize about children in a socially acceptable way. His claim that society fantasizes about erotic children is a difficult one to make, but

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    information about brothels in Pompeii is much disputed. There is only one location, now called the Lupanar or Purpose-Built Brothel, which has been conclusively identified as a brothel. Accepted indications of ancient brothels include sexual graffiti, erotic art, and small rooms with stone beds. These indicators are found in more than 35 sites around Pompeii. Further research of these sites reveals that many were actually bars, inns, and baths, as well as stalls on the street that could easily have been

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