A Train to Hollywood: Porno-Chic in the Polish Cinema of the Late 1980s by Karol Jachymek

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‘Erotiques Cannibales’: A queer ontological take on desire from urban Congo by Hendriks, T

“…Rather than ethnographically representing ‘their’ erotic concepts, this article tries to think through them and calls for a non-melancholic theorization of desire…”

Non-philosophical mystique and the rehabilitation of heresis by Eleni Lorandou

“…Future mystique ends as the amorous knowledge, an erotic a priori constitutive of the mystical subject: it is not an illusory transformation of Man or a revision of his relation to God or the World. …”
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Bukolinio žanro transformacija Biono kūryboje | A transformation of the bucolic genre in the poetry of Bion by Audronė Kudulytė-Kairienė

“…Seventeen fragments of his other pieces are preserved in Stobaeus, most of them are erotic in tone. Bion was the imitator of Theocritus. …”
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Between Repentance and Desire: Women Poets and the Word in Early Modern Italy by Sarah Rolfe Prodan

“…Exploring the introspective and subjective spiritual lyrics of Vittoria Colonna (1492–1547), Laura Battiferri (1523–1589), and Francesca Turini Bufalini (1553–1641) in the context of the Italian literary Renaissance and Counter-Reformation, it aims to highlight and to elucidate the conflation of the sacred and the erotic in their verse. In so doing, this article reveals how these early modern female poets deployed the sensual strategically in their verse to elevate the erotic and how they raised the Italian religious lyric to new literary heights by spiritualizing the dominant poetic idiom.…”
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La flûte pinkuyllu des Provincias Altas du Cuzco (Pérou) : organologie et symbolique érotique d’un aérophone andin by Raphaël Parejo-Coudert

“…The pinkuyllu flute of the High Provinces of Cuzco (Peru): the organology and erotic symbolism of an Andean aerophone. The long recorder called the pinkuyllu, from the High Provinces of Cuzco (Peru), is an aerophone which has seldom been studied, and about which very little is known. …”
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El legado oculto de Antonio Machado a la generación de poetas del medio siglo by De Ros, X

“…Drawing on theories of eroticism proposed, among others, by Georges Bataille, Octavio Paz, Roland Barthes and Anne Carson, an analysis of the textual strategies that generate the erotic potential in Machado’s poem reveals a network of echoes and poetic resonances which conjure up the figure of a mediator of desire. …”

نقد الشعراء لشعر عمر بن أبي ربيعة by حكمت عيسى, مظـهر مـكيـة

“…There was a criticism movement about his erotic poetry, this movement likes the criticism movement which turns around the contradictions poetic in Iraq . …”
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Melanocortin 4 receptor agonism enhances sexual brain processing in women with hypoactive sexual desire disorder by Layla Thurston, Tia Hunjan, Edouard G. Mills, Matthew B. Wall, Natalie Ertl, Maria Phylactou, Beatrice Muzi, Bijal Patel, Emma C. Alexander, Sofiya Suladze, Manish Modi, Pei C. Eng, Paul A. Bassett, Ali Abbara, David Goldmeier, Alexander N. Comninos, Waljit S. Dhillo

“…During functional neuroimaging, MC4R agonism enhanced cerebellar and supplementary motor area activity and deactivated the secondary somatosensory cortex, specifically in response to visual erotic stimuli, compared with placebo. In addition, MC4R agonism enhanced functional connectivity between the amygdala and the insula during visual erotic stimuli compared with placebo.CONCLUSION These data suggest that MC4R agonism enhanced sexual brain processing by reducing self-consciousness, increasing sexual imagery, and sensitizing women with HSDD to erotic stimuli. …”
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Altered reward processing in patients with lifelong premature ejaculation by Yansong Li, Xiaojun Li, Zixiang Wang, Xi Chen, Guillaume Sescousse, Pekka Santtila, Yutian Dai, Bing Zhang

“…Thirty lifelong PE patients and thirty healthy controls (HCs) performed the incentive delay task manipulating both erotic and monetary rewards. Compared to HCs, lifelong PE patients exhibited significantly faster RTs to erotic cues than to monetary cues during reward anticipation. …”
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"Wounded harts": metaphor and desire in the epic-romances of Tasso, Sidney, and Spenser by Phelps, PC

“…For Spenser, body fracture and erotic wounding are analogic (indeed, almost indistinguishable), and <em>The Faerie Queene</em> investigates the prospect that confusing these analogies can become an empowering, even revelatory experience. …”

L’agentivité d’une île : au cœur des Stigmatisés (1918) de Franz Schreker by Aurore Flamion

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The Political Uses of Lesbian Romance Fiction: Reading Patrick Califia’s Macho Sluts as a Response to 1980s Anti-Pornography Feminism by Carolyn Bronstein

“…In 1988, the author and radical sex activist Patrick Califia published Macho Sluts, a collection of lesbian sadomasochism-themed erotic fiction that provided visibility and erotic legitimacy for the modern lesbian leather community. …”
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Love Objects: Eros and the Materialistic Aesthetics of Ernst Lubitsch by Noa Merkin

“…By examining both films together, I demonstrate how the world of inanimate objects brings erotic undertones to the surface while challenging the material conditions of the erotic itself. …”
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The Leader and the Mass: The Political Body and the Power of Rhetorics by Lorenzo Gramatica

“…We can structure the relationship between the mass and the leader as a seduction, as an erotic ritual. This erotic ritual functions through a scheme (boy meets girl) that we can consider as  a starting point to define the nature of the mass when is approaching the Power. …”
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Female Figures and the Phantasies of the Eros in Femei de iasomie by Ionel Buşe by Nadejda IVANOV

“…In this article we analyze the trajectory of becoming the protagonist Orlando, from the novel Femei de iasomie by Ionel Buşe, through the erotic game and the facets of love. The women, the portraits of whom the novel is imparting, influence and shape various sociocultural contexts, moods, the relation of the ego to the self and, with them, their meaning as an archetype of meaning. …”
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Casos de Ensino em Administração: Dona Flor: Desintermediar ou ser Desintermediada! by Aline Stange, Carolina de Arantes Montagna, Victor Manoel Cunha de Almeida

“…The Dona Flor teaching case portrays the moment in which Pedro Brasil, founder of an erotic product reseller for women through direct sales, was looking for ways to keep his business healthy and growing. …”
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Hot or not: response inhibition reduces the hedonic value and motivational incentive of sexual stimuli. by Ferrey, A, Frischen, A, Fenske, M

“…Prior Go/No-go status affected the number of key-presses by heterosexual males to view erotic-female (sexually appealing) but not erotic-male or scrambled-control (non-appealing) images. …”

A love blessed by God: narratives in the popular Islamic novels of Malaysia by Abdul Rani, Mohd Zariat

“…The foregrounding of Islamic romantic themes goes against the trend of preceding popular novels that were more inclined towards erotic themes.…”

نقد الشعراء لشعر عمر بن أبي ربيعة by حكمت عيسى, مظـهر مـكيـة

“…There was a criticism movement about his erotic poetry, this movement likes the criticism movement which turns around the contradictions poetic in Iraq . …”
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