Sentence examples for as perversion from inspiring English sources

Historically, the tendency was often to lump "alternative" sexualities together as perversion and evil: homosexuality with bestiality, BDSM with pedophilia.

When her husband's research turned to chemical weapons she saw it as "perversion of the ideals of science" and actively protested against his work.

In 1844 the Russian physician Heinrich Kaan published Psychopathia Sexualis (not to be confused with the Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis published in 1886), which postulated a connection between sexual behaviour and diseases of the mind, using terms such as perversion and degeneration in reference to nonprocreative sex.

Or is deviance a matter of time and place, the way that a century ago, fellatio and cunnilingus were regarded as perversions in some psychoanalytic circles?

The closing of the institute freed various self-described objectivists to publicly develop their own interpretations of Rand's philosophy all of which, however, she rejected as perversions or plagiarism of her ideas.

Arguing that moral virtues truly have no gender, Mary Wollstonecraft regards "feminine" virtues as perversions of these true virtues and laments women's conscription into a bogus ideal (Wollstonecraft 1792).

In a performance that is a vocal, physical and conductorial tour de force, Hannigan dresses up in PVC and creates some risque choreography for the part of an S&M police chief of supernatural cruelty and perversion, as well as somehow conducting the ensemble.

Many observers from Renaissance popes and Bourbon kings to contemporary animal-rights activists—have seen bullfighting as barbaric, as a perversion of the Christian principle of animal stewardship.

He is still seen as a perversion, still regarded as a sick and distorted version of what an American soldier is supposed to be.

If he was right then, it follows – at least in Livingstone's mind – that he must be right now when, for example, he embraces Yusuf al Qaradawi, the Egyptian cleric who has defended suicide bombers in Israel, who has denounced homosexuality as a perversion, and who is quoted as having described the Holocaust as God's punishment for Jewish corruption.

A Missouri legislator's Facebook post -- shared on the timelines of other lawmakers -- contains a "California to Texas" translation guide that characterizes same-sex marriage as "legalized perversion" and a "multicultural community" as a "high-crime area".