Sentence examples for repressed sexuality from inspiring English sources

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"It's as much a film about repressed sexuality and sexual manipulation as it is about dance," said insomniac506, while BrerRabbit2 held Powell's frenetic film up as a progenitor of (theatrical) things to come: "Some might say the whole film is camp before camp was camp".

"Maybe it's repressed sexuality.

Freud's disciples linked it to repressed sexuality.

And that fits in exactly with what those films are about, which is exploring repressed sexuality".

The girls' disappearance shatters a carefully cultivated Victorian veneer, revealing repressed sexuality and simmering madness.

But what lies behind some of the crude and boorish conduct catalogued by the Everyday Sexism project is repressed sexuality.

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You don't need to be Michel Foucault and write a book about the history of sexuality to recognize that "the Victorians, in being so actively concerned to describe, analyze and repress sexuality, were involved in a massive acceleration of sexual discourse," as Martin Myrone, a Tate curator, puts it in the catalog.

As Martin Myrone, a curator at the Tate, elaborates in the catalog to "Exposed," "The Victorians, in being so actively concerned to describe, analyze and repress sexuality, were... involved in a massive acceleration of sexual discourse".

With FGM, the norm is to repress sexuality to ensure that a girl remains a virgin until she marries, and is imposed on its victims by the expectations of the church and the family.

With FGCS, the aim is not to repress sexuality, but to enhance it, as its willing victims believe they would look more attractive or would have better sex if they are somehow altered "downstairs".

Abused by a mother whose religious faith centers on repressing sexuality, Carrie realizes she in fact is an anomaly: She has telekinesis, the ability to use her thoughts to move physical objects.

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