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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Erotica"”.
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Historia spintriae : the pleasures of collecting ancient erotica
… seeks to uncover the story of ancient erotica through the examination of a particular type of ancient erotic object: Roman spintriae. These quarter-sized objects, produced during the first century CE and often devoid of archaeological context, feature couples engaged in sexual activity …
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Androgyny and Dominance: Gender Construction in Anaïs Nin's Erotica Series
… considered, and is equally important, is her Erotica series, Delta of Venus and Little Birds. These books, her most popular, not only address the issues that she covers in her other works, but also ask questions about how humans are gendered, and consider the degree to which individuals …
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The Pornographic Home: Women, Sex, and Everyday Life
I map connections between literary erotica and other technologies, including the computer, cable, and video. Women have had a longer, more productive history writing and reading erotica than they have in producing or watching visual porn; however, I also show how women as producers and consumers …
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Fetishizing Southern Brutality: An Intersectional Analysis of Animalistic Dehumanization in Interracial Pornography
… deployed by women to explore sexual fantasies: erotica.</p>
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Appetitive Responding and the Female Menstrual Cycle: An Investigation into the Post-Auricular Reflex
… in normally cycling females, while responses to erotica did not significantly decrease across phases of the menstrual cycle. Ovulation was also found to affect female self-report of sexual desire. These shifts were not seen in females using hormonal birth control. The study results suggest that …
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The contextual evaluation of research on sexually explicit materials
… key terms linked with SEM (eg: pornography and erotica); and discussions of sexual magazines aimed at male and female audiences. Participants' reactions to images and texts associated with SEM presented in different contexts are discussed. Three main conclusions are drawn from this thesis. …
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Volunteer bias in sex research: effects of variable stimuli content and intrusiveness of measurement
… toward sex; increased exposure to commercialized erotica; and an increase in sexual trauma. The object of this study was to investigate the effects that varying the stimuli content (i.e. heterosexual vs gay male vs lesbian) of films used in sexual arousal studies would have on volunteer rate and …
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The Masochian Woman: Coming to a Philosophical Understanding of Haudenosaunee Women's Masochism
… Indigenous moral sadomasochism, and Indigenous erotica. To theorize Indigenous women’s masochism means to reject it as a fantasy of men and look to our own culture for guidance.
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"Every picture tells a story". A study of those who gather and accumulate legal and illegal images
… collectible became the IIOC or images of child erotica, and collection was referred to as the IIOC accumulation. The collecting process was discussed in regard to actual behaviours, that is, gathering, acquiring, keeping and maintaining accumulations. Applying the collecting frame helped map the …
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Porno Ludens: Soviet literary pornography, 1970s – 1990s
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2021-12-01