Sentence examples for heterosexual gaze from inspiring English sources

Some scenes the savage beating endured by Marie, the lingering descriptions of girls dressing and undressing, Hilary's smouldering sexuality may, Booth asserts, be written with "the lusts of the male heterosexual gaze" in mind but, he continues, the reader looking for explicit pornography will be disappointed.

What Hefner did was, in one way, as old as sex itself: he took the heterosexual male gaze and commodified it.

Like other things about the 70's, they are embarrassing, unintentionally comical and oddly creepy, yet they remain somehow touching in their quixotic ambition to establish a new humanely erotic tradition for the heterosexual female gaze.

Minaj's relationship to the heterosexual male gaze is neither straightforward rejection nor submission, but rather playing with it on a whim, as a cat might play with a mouse.

The icy sexual power of Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs, already the subject of a work by Glenn Ligon, is reoriented to the heterosexual male gaze in monumental close-ups of the artist's tightly corseted, thonged or garter-belted torso.

Despite his incredible performance and costuming, his femme style perhaps may never win if the historic white heterosexual male gaze continues to be the aesthetic drive behind burlesque.

This reinforces the Madonna-whore complex -- a double standard where in the actress must be seen as demure even if the characters she plays are debased in that their sexuality is tailored solely to titillate the heterosexual male gaze.

"For underrepresented communities like, BDSM, queer, kinky, non-binary, trans, fat folks," said Chase, "[Tumblr] was the only place for us to go to see people that looked like us having enjoyable sex and see our community represented in ways that mainstream porn tends to steer toward the cis, white, heterosexual male gaze".

A heterosexual male gaze still dominates our advertising and media, and a narrowly prescribed ideal of female beauty is what we're force-fed: women who are no fatter than Kim Kardashian, no darker than Beyoncé, no older than Nicki Minaj, and with fewer human imperfections than a retouched ad for anti-acne cream.

Men need to get real about the power dynamics and historical realities here: the heterosexual male gaze has dominated our art and popular culture for centuries, and women have always faced and continue to face a relentless and demonstrably more damaging level of objectification.

Males who identified themselves as straight swelled while gazing at heterosexual or lesbian sex and while watching the masturbating and exercising women.