If the likelihood of transmission were reversed, with the receptive partner more likely to transmit HIV to the penetrative partner, it seems likely that HIV status would be framed in the sexually voracious, submissive, and
whorish terms cited above.
I guess we don't like to think that we are as
whorish as a salesman who so obviously is doing that.
Guzman's pride in his genealogical descent from a
whorish grandmother highlights his concept of a male world maintained by women's sexual labor.
I remember one morning when he complained of a terrible headache, retched into his loafers, then told me snappishly that the gorgeous burgundy de la Renta gown I had just worn to the Japanese consulate looked "damn
whorish." I gave him a look, and he changed his tune right away.
Followers have picketed the singer's gigs with placards saying "God Hates GaGa", and group members Megan Phelps Roper, 24, and cousin Sara Phelps, 29, have even filmed foul-mouthed parodies of 'Telephone' and 'Poker Face', called 'Ever Burn' and '
Whorish Face'.
[4] Giles De'ath, a comic version of Death in Venice's von Aschenbach, is an erudite author who rails against mediocrity, especially the "easy,
whorish and irresistible charms" of cinema (Adair, 16); yet his first-person narrative describes the implications of his discovery of a vision of male beauty in an American lowbrow teenage comedy.
If we think of the burgeoning abolitionist belief in the 1840s that a slave-conspiracy exclusive to the
whorish South was the whole measure of the nation's sin ...
Interestingly, Eberti takes issue with the authorship of the infamous Satirica Sotadica so often attributed to Luisa Sigaea and expresses instead the belief that they had instead been written by "ein verhurter Kerl" 'a
whorish guy,' and cites professor and polyhistor Daniel Morhoff (1639-1691) and Thomasius as sharing this opinion (Eberti 336-39).
With a raspy voice that sounds more reptilian than human, Dylan gargles, rinses and spits his words of enduring romance and overwhelming woe on the cheeky, nihilistic opener, "Beyond Here Lies Nothin'." He's an absolute hoot, cursing a Hellspawn of a spouse whose old Zip code is 666 on the bluesy barnburner, "My Wife's Home Town" and gets away with saying to a woman, "You are
whorish as ever" on the part love song/part self-evaluation/part state-of-the-union address, "I Feel A Change Comin'."
The drunken and
whorish Mauricia la Dura, from Fortunata y Jacinta (1886-87), has sphinx-like characteristics (686); in the novel El Abuelo (1897), the esfinges figure prominently in the description of a dark and sinister night, a night of would-be suicides ("...