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It follows in considering this principal thought that the eroticization of the religious content of images becomes a natural and almost self-evident consequence.

Erotic spanking was popular in Victorian Britain, perhaps due to the buttocks' fetishization and eroticization.

Abel's psychoanalytical approach then calls for the use of "panchira" as a term for eroticization of the invisible.

That commercial has inspired an unauthorized, X-rated Web site along with parental protests against the eroticization of breakfast cereal in television ads.

Freud did not emphasize relational capacity in the pre-Oedipal period because he focused on the eroticization of the two ends of the digestive tube.

Carbon photography prints of idyllic male youths, framed within hand-drawn structures, reflect an eroticization of, and dislocation from the male form.

Eroticization of fandom, including slash fandom, shipping (fandom), racy fan service, cosplay, over-identification with a particular character, etc.

In Freudian analysis, cuckold fetishism is the eroticization of the fears of infidelity and of failure in the man's competition for procreation and the affection of females.

Patricia Cline Cohen, The Mystery of Helen Jewett: Romantic Fiction and the Eroticization of Violence, 17 Legal Studies Forum 2 (1993)

The buttocks have been considered an erogenous zone in Western thought for centuries, and the eroticization of the female buttocks was heteronormative and due to their association and closeness to the female reproductive organs.

Most of the clients who are willing to talk for the camera do a poor job of verbalizing erotic obsessions that are clearly connected to unresolved childhood issues of power, shame and the eroticization of fear.

Brett Farmer places the "orgasmic gyrations" of the title dance sequence in Jailhouse Rock within a lineage of cinematic musical numbers that offer a "spectacular eroticization, if not homoeroticization, of the male image".

The opposing argument puts the phenomenon in the context of a larger "romanticization and eroticization" of the West and specifically of English speakers by Japanese women, and asserts that it is actually the Western men in such relationships who have power.

Olds's poems also touch on the shadow aspect of father-daughter intimacy, which is the ever-present potential for eroticization and violence (although with Olds, as with so many literary depictions, it's hard to tell what's imagined or feared as opposed to what actually happened).

If the good doctor's remarks are any indication of where the mass culture's relentless eroticization of the body might be heading, it is only a matter of time before medical assessments of the internal organs of beauty contestants are added to the list of categories being judged.

Jewkes cites the media coverage of the Jones case as an example of the news media's eroticization of the victim in such cases, pointing to the news media's reports of the sexual relationship between victim and murderer, and the news media's publication of photographs of the victim's stockings.

Maria Stepek Doherty Hamilton, Scotland, Dec. 29, 2006 To the Editor: A round of applause to Lawrence Downes for pointing out that the premature eroticization of young girls could never happen if their parents woke up and thought about the behavior they're tolerating - and outright encouraging.