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Are the problems having to do with sexuality in our culture occasioned by an extreme eroticization? Christopher Damian in "A Catholic Perspective on Homoerotic Desire" argues that the difficulty for individuals who experience same-sex attraction is not eros itself, for eros is a power that draws one out of oneself by the pull of beauty.

it is difficult to imagine a male costume that lends itself more to eroticization than that of the Western gunfighter.

Racial differentiation was revealed to be an effect of language--of Othello's self-identification and language use, but also of Iago's provocative disregard for political correctness, Brabantio's belief in white supremacy, and Desdemona's eroticization of her "exotic" husband, whom she called--as did the others--"Schoko" (Chocco), "Schokoplatzchen" (chocolate biscuit) or "Schokocrossie" (a brand name for a confectionary made of chocolate-covered cornflakes).

There are several causes for this situation which include increased trade across national borders, poverty, unemployment, low status of girls, lack of education (including sexual education) of children and their parents, inadequate legislation, lack of or poor law enforcement, and eroticization of children by the media, a phenomenon increasingly seen in industrialized countries.

Stout aptly situates the particular social and economic histories of Cuba within the larger story of eroticization of Caribbean bodies.

Similarly, Nazi/Fascist imagery--a shorthand for the eroticization of taboo (power) relations and hypermasculinity--often inflected the images of gay leather culture, as in Robert Mapplethorpe's photography, and in Tom of Finland's art, which in the 1970s became widely available in the United States.

Within these groupings everything from the eroticization of slavery, to male sex workers in contemporary literature, to beauty pageants and horror films are discussed.

(5) Comparing Denis's 1999 film Beau travail with The Hurt Locker, Mayer argues, "Denis makes far more clear-cut the emergence of that [masculine and colonial] violence from the repression of homoeroticism, particularly from the dehumanizing eroticization of the nonwhite Other." Although Beau travail is an adaptation of Herman Melville's Billy Budd that focuses almost exclusively on male characters in the French Foreign Legion, its acute examination of the relationship between race, sexuality, and imperialism aligns it with Mayer's expansive conception of feminist cinema.

While writing this novel, I was inspired by renowned Kenyan artist Wangechi Mutu, who depicts the exploitation and eroticization of the black female body through a feminist lens.

In these sections, Boccaccio proposes an eroticization of theology while theologizing literature.