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Adultery
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Adultery is extramarital sex that is considered objectionable on social, religious, moral, or legal grounds. A single act of intercourse is generally sufficient to constitute adultery. Historically, many cultures have considered adultery to be a serious crime. Adultery often incurred severe punishment, usually for the woman and sometimes for the man, with penalties including capital punishment, mutilation, such punishments have gradually fallen into disfavor, especially in Western countries from the 19th century. In most Western countries, adultery itself is no longer a criminal offense, Adultery is not a ground for divorce in jurisdictions which have adopted a no-fault divorce model. In some societies and among certain religious adherents, adultery may affect the status of those involved. In countries where adultery is an offense, punishments range from fines to caning. A joint statement by the United Nations Working Group on discrimination against women in law and in states that. In Muslim countries that follow Sharia law for justice, the punishment for adultery may be stoning. There are fifteen countries in which stoning is authorized as lawful punishment, though in recent times it has been carried out only in Iran. In some jurisdictions, having sexual relations with the wife or the wife of his eldest son constitutes treason. The term adultery refers to acts between a married person and someone who is not that persons spouse. It may arise in criminal law or in family law, for instance, in the United Kingdom, adultery is not a criminal offense, but is a ground for divorce, with the legal definition of adultery being physical contact with an alien and unlawful organ. Extramarital sexual acts not fitting this definition are not adultery though they may constitute unreasonable behavior, the application of the term to the act appears to arise from the idea that criminal intercourse with a married woman. Tended to adulterate the issue of an innocent husband, and to expose him to support and provide for another mans. Thus, the purity of the children of a marriage is corrupted, the term adultery, rather than extramarital sex, implies a moral condemnation of the act, as such it is usually not a neutral term because it carries an implied judgment that the act is wrong. In the traditional English common law, adultery was a felony, although the legal definition of adultery differs in nearly every legal system, the common theme is sexual relations outside of marriage, in one form or another. Traditionally, many cultures, particularly Latin American ones, had double standards regarding male and female adultery
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Ancient Greek eros
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Ancient Greeks used the word eros to refer to different aspects of love. This diverse range of meanings is expressed by the plurality of Greek words for Love, the term was used to describe not only the affectionate marital relationship between a man and a woman but also the institution of pedagogic pederastic relations, solemnized in certain Greek poleis. Such was the importance of eros for the ancient Greeks that the god of love, also named Eros, was held in Hesiods cosmogony to be the primordial deity, ancient Greek philosophers were also interested in the conception of eros, which became a central issue in their analyses. In particular, Plato devoted two of his dialogues, Phaedrus and Symposium, to the dimensions of love. The term Platonic love derived from the influential writings. There are a few records of womens lives and loves in ancient Greece. The majority of women in some poleis were not educated as much or as well as men, according to the biographer Plutarch, Hipparete loved her husband, but she attempted to divorce him because he consorted with courtesans. She lived with him until her death and gave birth to two children, a daughter and a son, also named Alcibiades. Another famous relationship between a man and a woman in ancient Athens was the involvement of Aspasia with the Athenian statesman Pericles. Aspasia was born in the city of Miletus in Asia Minor and was possibly a hetaera and she became the mistress of the Athenian in the early 440s and, after he divorced his first wife, began to live with him, although her marital status remains disputed. In Sparta, the status of women was stronger and the marital rituals were solemnized. The ideal outcome of marital eros in Sparta was the birth of a healthy boy, according to modern studies, pedagogic pederasty is thought to have been introduced around 630 BC. The institution has its roots among the Dorian Greeks, where it was a recognized institution, according to Plato the Dorians were the first who even gave a pederastic meaning to the myth of Ganymede. Crete is regarded as the birthplace of eros paidikos, researchers of the Spartan civilization, such as Paul Cartledge, remain uncertain about the sexual aspect of the institution. The nature of possible sexual relations remains, however, disputed. According to the Greek classicist Ioannis Sykoutris, paidikos eros was interconnected with the notion of education, in Symposium, eros is described as a universal force that moves all things towards peace, perfection and divinity. Eros himself is a daimon, namely a creature between divinity and mortality
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Animal roleplay
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Animal roleplay is a form of roleplay where at least one participant plays the part of a non-human animal. As with most forms of roleplay, its uses include play, Animal roleplay may also be found in BDSM contexts, where an individual may take part in a dominant/submissive relationship by being treated as an animal. The activity is referred to as petplay. However, not all types of animal roleplay within BDSM are petplay and not all petplay in BDSM involves roleplaying as an animal, some can be referred to as primal play and furry play. The origins of animal roleplay and petplay are probably various and diverse, however, its origins are certainly influenced by costuming, fiction, myth and legend, roleplay and psychodrama in their various aspects. Some of the earliest published images of play are to be found in the work of John Willie. Examples of the former include many of the American Indian tribes, examples of the latter are evidenced by cave paintings. In 1911, Julia Tuell photographed the last Animal Dance performed by the Northern Cheyenne of Montana and it is also sometimes used in education, especially physical education, as a way to encourage people to exercise the body in unusual ways, by mimicking various animals. In manga and anime, a common character type is the catgirl. A standard catgirl resembles a teenage girl with cat ears, a tail, tiny fangs. Examples include Cat Girl Nuku Nuku, Pink from Dragon Pink, real-life costume play, or cosplay, of anime catgirls could be considered a form of pet play. That catgirls are humanoids with lesser attributes of felines means that the costume is a simple one. Though kittenlike timidity and submissiveness are prominent elements of catgirl charm, all involve animal qualities taken on by a human. Some would even count the enactment or spiritual belief in therianthropy as falling under human animal roleplay or transformation play as well. Peter Shaffers 1973 play Equus tells the story of a man who has a pathological religious fascination with horses. Andrew Lloyd Webbers 1981 musical Cats traces a tribe of urban cats, like much of erotic play and roleplay, animal roleplay in an erotic or relational context is entirely defined by the people involved and by their mood and interests at the time of play. To the greater extremes of dressing up as a pony in modified horse tack, masks, prosthetics, public participation in human animal roleplay is varied. A couple could inconspicuously role-play a silly but loving pet play scene in public, in the case of some BDSM fetishists, one partner may wear a dog collar with a leash attached
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Breast
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The breast is one of two prominences located on the upper ventral region of the torso of female primates. In females, it serves as the mammary gland, which produces and secretes milk, both females and males develop breasts from the same embryological tissues. At puberty, estrogens, in conjunction with growth hormone, cause breast development, the breasts of females are typically far more prominent than those of males. Subcutaneous fat covers and envelops a network of ducts that converge on the nipple, at the ends of the ducts are lobules, or clusters of alveoli, where milk is produced and stored in response to hormonal signals. Upon childbirth, the alveoli are stimulated to produce and secrete milk for infants, along with their function in feeding infants, female breasts have social and sexual characteristics. Breasts have been featured in ancient and modern sculpture, art. Female breasts can figure prominently in a perception of her body image. A number of Western cultures associate breasts with sexuality and tend to regard bare breasts in public as immodest or indecent, Breasts and especially the nipples are an erogenous zone on women. The English word breast derives from the Old English word brēost from Proto-Germanic breustam, the breast spelling conforms to the Scottish and North English dialectal pronunciations. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary states that Middle English brest, from Old English brēost, Old Irish brú, Russian bryukho, the first known usage of the term was before the 12th century. A large number of terms for breasts are used in English. Some vulgar slang expressions may be considered to be derogatory or sexist to women, at the front of the chest, the breast tissue can extend from the clavicle to the middle of the sternum. At the sides of the chest, the breast tissue can extend into the axilla, as a mammary gland, the breast is composed of differing layers of tissue, predominantly two types, adipose tissue, and glandular tissue, which affects the lactation functions of the breasts. Morphologically the breast is a cone, with the base at the chest wall and the apex at the nipple, the superficial tissue layer is separated from the skin by 0. 5–2.5 cm of subcutaneous fat. The suspensory Coopers ligaments are fibrous-tissue prolongations that radiate from the superficial fascia to the skin envelope, the female adult breast contains 14–18 irregular lactiferous lobes that converge at the nipple. Milk exits the breast through the nipple, which is surrounded by an area of skin called the areola. The size of the areola can vary widely among women, the areola contains modified sweat glands known as Montgomerys glands. These glands secrete oily fluid that lubricate and protect the nipple during breastfeeding, volatile compounds in these secretions may also serve as an olfactory stimulus for the newborns appetite
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Catfight
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Catfight is a term for an altercation between two women, often characterized as involving scratching, slapping, hair-pulling, and shirt-shredding. It can also be used to describe women insulting each other verbally or engaged in a competition for men, power. The catfight has been a staple of American news media and popular culture since the 1940s, some observers argue that in its purest form, the word refers to two women, one blonde and the other a brunette, fighting each other. However, the term is not exclusively used to indicate a fight between women, and many formal definitions do not invoke gender, culturally, we think of the catfight as bikini-clad bimbos slapping each other around and wrestling. The term catfight was recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary as the title and it is first recorded as being used to describe a fight between women in 1854. Catfights first began appearing in American popular culture in the 1950s when postwar pioneers of such as Irving Klaw produced film clips of women engaged in catfighting and wrestling. Klaw used many models and actresses in his works, including Bettie Page, the popularity of watching women fight increased in the postwar years and eventually moved into the mainstream of society. In the 1960s, catfights became popular in B movies such as Russ Meyers Faster, kill. and the 1969 animated Boris Karloff movie Mad Monster Party. In the 1970s and 1980s, catfights began to make appearances in women in films, in roller derby. Dynasty starred John Forsythe as an oil tycoon and patriarch of a family that lived in Denver. The show co-starred blonde Linda Evans and brunette Joan Collins, the two women had a number of fights, both verbal and physical, during the show’s 9-year run on ABC. Designed to compete with Dallas, a popular evening drama on CBS. For the second season, the introduced the dark-haired Collins as a foil to the blonde Evans and hoped that her “bitchy persona” would enhance the show’s ratings. How could you not love a catfight between these two, the fight occurred during an argument they were having in Evans’ apartment when Powers, on her way out, grabbed a bottle of seltzer water and sprayed down Evans. Before she reached the door, Evans grabbed Powers and the two engaged in spirited catfight, wrecking the apartment in the process. During the fight, Powers’ blouse was partially torn off, exposing her black bra, Evans eventually overpowered her brunette opponent and was holding her head down in a water-filled aquarium when Weaver walked in and ended the fight. In 2002, an SABMiller television commercial called Catfight featured two young beautiful women drinking a beer in an outside cafe and their polite conversation quickly turned into an argument about whether Miller Lite beer’s best aspect was its taste or the fact that it was less filling than other beers. The argument led to a fight one of the girls knocked the other into an adjacent pool
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Cicisbeo
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The arrangement is comparable to the Spanish cortejo or estrecho and, to a lesser degree, to the French petit-maître. The exact etymology of the word is unknown, some evidence suggests it originally meant in a whisper, other accounts suggest it is an inversion of bel cece, which means beautiful chick. According to OED, the first recorded usage of the term in English was found in a letter by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu dated 1718, the term appears in Italian in Giovanni Maria Mutis Quaresimale Del Padre Maestro Fra Giovanni Maria Muti De Predicatori of 1708. While many contemporary references to cicisbei and descriptions of their social standing exist, some maintain that this institution was defined by marriage contracts, others question this claim and see it as a peculiarity of 18th-century customs that is not well defined or easily explained. Other scholars see it as a sign of the emancipation of aristocratic women in the 18th century. The cicisbeo was better tolerated if he was known to be homosexual, to the rest of you, so full of yourselves, one cant say a word that you dont take as provocation. Typically, husbands tolerated or even welcomed the arrangement, Lord Byron, after his death, her second husband, Marquis de Boissy, was known to brag about the fact. Byron also famously analyzed the institution from an English point of view in his poem Beppo, the husband and the cicisbeo live together as sworn brothers, and the wife and the mistress embrace each other with marks of the warmest affection. Cicisbei played by set rules, generally avoiding public displays of affection, at public entertainments, they would typically stand behind their seated mistress and whisper in her ear. Customs of the time did not permit them to engage in relationships with any other women during their free time, both parties could decide to end the relationship at any time. A womans former cicisbei were called spiantati, or cast-offs, the topic can be found in the contemporary poem Il Giorno by Giuseppe Parini. A Ladys Man, The Cicisbei, Private Morals and National Identity in Italy, houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire Palgrave Macmillan,2014. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 193 John Forsyth, Remarks on the Antiquities, Arts, barbara Hodgson, Italy Out of Hand, A Capricious Tour, Chronicle Books LLC,2005 J. G. Krünitz, Oekonomische Encyklopädie oder allgemeines System der Staats- Stadt- Haus- und Landwirthschaft, retrieved on March 27,2006 Silvana Patriarca, Indolence and Regeneration, Tropes and Tensions of Risorgimento Patriotism. The American Historical Review April 2005, jean Charles Léonard Simonde de Sismondi, Histoire des Républiques Italiennes du Moyen Age, 5th edn. vol.8 Tobias Smollett, Travels through France and Italy, numerous editions
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Cutty-sark (witch)
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Cutty sark is 18th-century Scots for short chemise or short undergarment. Hyphenated, Cutty-sark was a given to the witch Nannie Dee. The figurehead of the tea clipper Cutty Sark is named after the character, Cutty or cuttie is short or stumpy. Sark or serk is a shift, chemise, or shirt, the earliest recorded literary usage of the term cutty sark is by Dougal Graham in c. 1779, A cutty sark of guide harn sheet, My mitter he pe spin, in Burns 1791 poem Tam o Shanter, the drunken Tam, riding home on his horse, happens upon a witches dance. Among the dancing figures is a beautiful young witch named Nannie, ae winsome wench. Little kend thy reverend grannie That sark she coft for her wee Nannie Wi twa pund Scots Wad ever graced a dance of witches, lassie, girl, vauntie, joyous, boasting, kend, knew, coft, bought, twa, two. Tam is so enthralled by the spectacle that he cannot contain himself and yells out Weel done. The witches are now alerted to his presence and pursue him, Tam heads for the River Doon, because, according to folklore, witches cannot cross running water. He makes it across the bridge to safety, but not before Nannie, the poem ends, ironically, with a mock warning to all men of the devilish consequences of thinking about scantily-clad females. The popularity of this poem was such that the phrase Well done, entered the English language via Scots as an exclamation similar to Bravo. Literary allusions to the original Cutty-sark abound, in Ulysses, James Joyce writes, Laughing witches in red cutty sarks ride through the air on broom sticks
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Erogenous zone
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Erogenous zones are located all over the human body, but the sensitivity of each varies, and depends on concentrations of nerve endings that can provide pleasurable sensations when stimulated. The touching of another persons erogenous zone is regarded as an act of physical intimacy, some people may resent stimulation in this manner while others may find it pleasing, and this may also depend on the relationship between the persons involved. Erogenous zones may be classified by the type of response that they generate. Many people are gently aroused when their eyelids, eyebrows, temples, shoulders, hands, arms, gently touching or stroking of these zones stimulates a partner during foreplay and increases the arousal level. Also, the massage or stroke of the abdominal area along with kissing or simply touching the navel can be a type of stimulation. Erogenous zones are either nonspecific or specific, in these zones, the skin is similar to normal-haired skin and has the normal high density of nerves and hair follicles. These areas include the sides and back of the neck, the inner arms, an exaggerated tickle and anticipatory response are responsible for the heightened sensual response. The neuroanatomy and neurophysiology of erogenous zones is partly unknown and these zones are apparently mucocutaneous skin. The rete ridges of the epithelium are well-formed and more of the nerves are close to the surface of the skin than in normal-haired skin. These zones seem to have a density of innervation, an efficiency of wound healing. Moreover, a connection with the system seems also necessary. The prostate gland may be stimulated from inside the rectum, such as by anal sex, men who report the sensation of prostate and seminal vesicles stimulation often give descriptions similar to females accounts of G-spot stimulation. The foreskin, which carries the ridged band and lower frenular delta, has mucocutaneous end-organs extending from the margin to the point where hairy skin starts. The thin dermis and minimal subcutaneous tissue results in closely set nerve networks, the mucocutaneous end-organs are formed after birth, with few in newborn infants and many well-organized endings in adults. Cold and Taylor state in 1999 that the foreskin is primary erogenous tissue, alanis and Lucidi in 2004 describe this as speculative and unproven. Parts of the vulva, especially the clitoris, are erogenous zones, the lips and tongue are sensitive and can be stimulated by kissing and licking. Biting at the lip can also provide stimulus, many people find a gentle scalp massage, or any stimulation of the hair follicles, to be anywhere from relaxing to extremely stimulating. The neck, clavicle area and the back of the neck are very sensitive in males and females, which can be stimulated by licking, kissing or light caressing
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Female promiscuity
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Promiscuity tends to be frowned upon by many societies, expecting most members to have committed, long-term relationships with single partners. Female promiscuity is not unique to humans, and has observed in other animals. Most societies have historically been more critical of womens promiscuity than of heterosexual mens, nevertheless, pertaining to the nature and nurture debate, there is some data emphasizing cultural factors, more so for women than for men. One review assessed that sociosexuality was affected almost equally by heredity and environment unshared with siblings, men tend to have higher sociosexuality scores and be more unrestricted than women across a variety of cultures. Contrary to popular belief, body esteem in women showed a significant positive correlation with sociosexual unrestrictedness, so did hip-to-waist ratio and two measures of virilization. Finally, still in the study, alcohol consumption correlated, too. Bisexual women tend to be restricted in their sociosexual attitudes than both homo- and heterosexual women. In sociosexual behavior also, bisexual women reported being more unrestricted, followed by homo-, social power has been popularly associated with sexual infidelity among men, experimental psychologists have linked power with sexual infidelity among women also. A Dutch study involving a large survey of 1,561 professionals, concluded that “The relationship between power and infidelity was the same for women as for men, and for the same reason. ”Church-attending women score lower on promiscuity than other women, while men appear to lack this correlation. A2010 study published in Journal of Marriage and Family found that there was a correlation between female pre-maritial promiscuity and higher rates of divorce. The research, conducted by Jay Teachman, found that women with 16 or more sexual partners prior to marriage had an 80% rate of subsequent divorce, men and women leading polyandrous lifestyles have higher levels of testosterone. The aforementioned hypothesis is not at all mutually exclusive with other hypotheses, libido is correlated with the menstrual cycle so that many women experience an increase in sexual desire several days immediately before ovulation. Testosterone levels rise gradually from about the 24th day of a menstrual cycle until ovulation on about the 14th day of the next cycle. During the high-testosterone period before ovulation, a woman typically feels more attracted to masculine facial features and is likely to pursue short-term mating. It is common for sex drive to diminish dramatically after menopause, women in this age group typically report having sexual fantasies greater in number and intensity, engaging in sexual activity more frequently, and being more interested in casual sex. Rate of molecular evolution of the seminal protein gene SEMG2 correlates with levels of female promiscuity, polyandrous mating is positively correlated with testicle-to-body weight across bushcricket taxa. Human testicles, relative to body weight, are lighter than those of the genus but heavier than those of gorillas. The bonobo chimpanzee species has heavier testicles than the chimpanzee species
