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erotophobia.
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Those who embrace celibacy for sake of the Kingdom remind their contemporaries that all love, including sexual love, realizes its potential only when it finds its terminus in divine love, and finds its protection only when guarded by virtue.
Las ensenanzas antropologicas del celibato
and the Greek Anthology, Fraser and Etruscan art, Mackey and Bedouin poetry) to accounts of their sexual entanglements--elicits a sense that sexual love remained a generative concept for poetry's writers and readers even in the most profoundly inhospitable philosophical and aesthetic climates.
The Transmutation of Love and Avant-Garde Poetics
Williamson argues that Chudleigh was "skeptical" about sexual love (92), though the language Chudleigh employs to describe the women's friendship in such poems as the "Song: To Lerinda" and "The Wish" is highly suggestive of a relationship deeper than friendship.
The forbidden space in Mary, Lady Chudleigh's "Song: To Lerinda" (1703)
NONMONOGAMOUS: I identify with this term because I don't feel that monogamy is a condition of romantic or sexual love, and my attitude toward relationships illustrates this.
A new humanist take on the emerging vocabulary of romance, gender, and sexuality
The conclusion provides useful insight into how someone can carry forward research on the philosophy and aesthetics of sexual love. The phenomenology practised by the author is informed by Heidegger's ontology, and it is shaped by Foucault's histories of concepts.
Reidar Due, Love in Motion: Erotic Relationships in Film
I have to admit, when I first got Diana Cages newest advice manual, Lesbian Sex Bible: The New Guide to Sexual Love for Same-Sex Couples, my initial reaction was, What are these straight girls doing on my queer sex bible?
Let's talk about sex: have hot queer sex. Change yourself. Change the world
In his ode, Keats attempts to find an earthly equivalent to Shakespeare's subject, which is spiritually idealized sexual love, through a peculiar perception of the urn as, at once, visual art and not-art.
Beauty and truth: the Shakespearean proto-text for Keats's "Grecian Urn"
The contrast between the morbid, venomous attitude of the Christian towards sexual love and the pagan's gentle, life-affirming spirituality is nicely brought out by these two epigrams from the Greek Anthology:
On Puritanism
About the cover designer: Arnold Skolnick, painter, photographer and award winning book designer illustrated the controversial 1969 publication, The Picture Book of Sexual Love. Some of those original photographs were reissued in the book LoveSong and adorn the covers of this anthology.
The Erotic Literary Salon Announces the Release of SenSexual: A Unique Anthology 2013, Volumes 1 & 2, Edited by Susana Mayer, Ph.D., Sexologist
And you're entitled to friendship.' "But we also know that God has told us that the way to happiness, especially when it comes to sexual love - that is intended only for a man and woman in marriage, where children can come about naturally."
US cardinal defends Catholic stance on gay marriage
Since the days of Boccaccio's guffawing demand for the emancipation of sexual love in the Decameron, it has steadily become the condition and the good to which all social and spiritual orders must conform.
The poetry of libido dominandi
Washington, December 26 ( ANI ): Researchers have found that subtle reminders of platonic love rather than sexual love may help foster healthy food choices.
Images of family and good friends can improve your snack choices

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