This phenomenon has lately been documented in academic studies like "Give Them What They Want: The Benefits of Explicitness in Gift-Exchange," by Francis J. Flynn, a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and Francesca Gino, at the Harvard Business School, published in March in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
About the show's explicitness, he said: "We wanted to push the envelope.
While the campaign does not nearly rival Cosmopolitan in sexual explicitness, it tilts in that direction, the better, the thinking goes, to capture the attention of the 20-something agency employees.
In its mannered explicitness, "In Praise of the Stepmother" feels like something one prints privately and gives to a lover.
But in our permissive culture there is no difference in referential explicitness between literary and pornographic fiction.
Writing a definitive history has its perils, and Harris tells us more than we want to know, chronicling aborted or stalled projects and endless tussles with the military over assignments and the tone and the explicitness of combat footage that the public might see.
"Whether you agree with him or not, that's not how we want our leader to be speaking in that vulgarity and explicitness," Heat forward Justise Winslow told the Miami Herald in late September, more than a month after the Heat's most recent tournament at Trump Doral.
The taboo against sexual explicitness that earlier resulted in censorship or moral disapproval had disappeared by the second half of the 20th century, so that Jacqueline Susann's novel Valley of the Dolls (1966) and David Reuben's Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Afraid to Ask (1969) were both among the top 20 all-time best sellers of the 20th century in the United States.
In their explicitness, Riccardo Tisci's clothes for Givenchy can often make people feel uncomfortable, and I like that.
"The last sequences are a too-obviously audience-cajoling thriller – and beauty is lost in the explicitness, both of atmosphere and politics".
