Sentence examples for Sexual horrors from inspiring English sources

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You might have seen her well-known silhouettes depicting almost whimsical images of the antebellum South that, on closer look, betray the violence and sexual horrors of our nation's past.

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Did Anderson's DCI Gibson legitimise the portrayal of sexual horror?

I couldn't work out if it was feminist or almost pornographic in its visceral depictions of degradation and sexual horror.

You don't need to bring in tangential references to other forms of sexual horror that have nothing to do with slavery.

The great sex scenes in literature for me don't show sex at all – Dorothea in Middlemarch, for example, registering the sexual horror of her marriage through her revulsion from Roman art.

In truth, this brand of sexual horror is nothing new, nor is it nearly as extreme as what preceded it in the 70s and 80s.

But the US was easily keeping up in the new world market with its own sexual horror, with predictably plotted films like Forced Entry, Sex Wish and Unwilling Lovers being especially transgressive.

The mood, however, is very different; though there's plenty of rage and gallows humour, a plot that the earlier Banks might have made into a psycho-sexual horror story is taken in a gentler and less sensational direction.

But Mungiu creates the queasy possibility that the attempted rape itself is part of a conspiracy of violence driven by envy or revenge – or even that the universe itself is punishing him, with intimate horror, for sexual misdeeds.

Even as the words left my mouth, I knew it was trivial to connect the job security of an 84-year-old football coach to the alleged sexual abuse horrors said to be foisted upon innocent boys by his former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky.

Sexual, homosexual, horror and gross-out content are deal-breakers in many territories.

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