It is the opposite of arousing to read Wilson's description of sex with the unhappy Penelope Gilliatt in the Princeton Club in 1970, when he was seventy-five.
It's not even terrible in an entertaining way, like Ke$ha, who is such a dank-pitted little slut it's kind of arousing to hate her, or Mumford & Sons, who are funny because they aren't in the slightest bit arousing to anyone but the pigs they still drive to market every Sunday.
Is the sight of two inches of breast so arousing to the young enlisted that you must protect their fragile sexuality?
Namely, it was the autonomy of the vagina from being arousing to men that reconfigured it as something radical or taboo.
May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government.… All eyes are opened or opening to the rights of men.
In one of the last letters of his life, in 1826, Jefferson said this of the Declaration of Independence: "May it be to the world what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains, under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves.
A second, forthcoming volume will consider ten societies that modernized more recently, many of them aroused to nationalism by the imperialism of these "old" nation-states.
The law under which Mr. Jackson was charged, Section 288(a) of the California penal code, refers to lewd and lascivious acts "with the intent of arousing, appealing to, and gratifying the lust, passions and sexual desires" of the adult or child.
It is hard to imagine many of them being aroused to revolutionary fervor.
Books like the Bible, Karl Marx's Das Kapital, and Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf may underlie permanent or transient cultures, but it is hard to find, except in the early Romantic period, a novelist capable of arousing new attitudes to life (as opposed to aspects of the social order) and forging the vocabulary of such attitudes.
… But it seems to me that men ought to be aroused to more of a realization of the danger.
