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The action of perverting someone or something; humiliation; debasement.

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The comment was part of a long, offensive rant by the politician and lawmaker, who likened homosexuality to perversion.

In his three-paneled Garden of Earthly Delights (1490 1500), humankind moves in swarms from paradise to perversion to punishment, acting out myriad fantasies of sensual gratification.

During a long, offensive rant against homosexuality on BBC 5 Live earlier in August he  likened homosexuality to perversion, bestiality and accused broadcaster Stephen Fry of being "sick" because of his attempt to take his own life by suicide.

This season's public seminar programme includes an introduction to perversion (14 March), the "object" from Freud to Lacan (21 March) and an introductory lecture on mourning and melancholia by Darian Leader (28 March).

Thousands of female passengers are now voicing their displeasure against the Shanghai Metro; some even staged a protest on June 24 by covering their faces, wearing "breast bowl protective bras" and holding signs saying, "Yes to coolness, no to perversion".

As a result, liberal Catholics who advocate a married priesthood, or those who are convinced that committing to a lifetime without sex must lead to perversion, may not have the abuse crisis to leverage their arguments.

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Or examine ethical boundaries in the pursuit of pleasure; the museum actually affirms their existence by giving no place to perversions like pedophilia, necrophilia or zoophilia.

Dugin was one of the first public figures in Russia to spot that Trump was a potential ally, and that his prospective presidency might unite the previously hostile nations in a joint crusade to eradicate "perversion" and to carve up the planet between them.

Sandy Parker, a mother whose child watched the film, objected to "the very idea that parental protectiveness has been overwhelmed by relentless pressure from a society that seems determined to expose its young to every perversion and peril in an effort to prepare them for harsh and dangerous future". .

An homage to the earliest photography and to human perversion, the photograph is a direct reference to a negative in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay that Charles Nègre, a painter who became one of the first professional artistic photographers, made of his lover.

James R. Simmons Jr. Worcester, Mass., March 25 , 2010To the Editor: Perhaps Lent is the ideal time for the Catholic leadership to give up its willful ignorance to these perversions and to cleanse its ranks of pedophiles -- for good.

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