Eroticize

If a young girl is deprived of an accepting and loving father, she may become uncomfortable with intimacy, needy and afraid to lose any love she finds, go to the extreme and eroticize her terror of loss. ❋ Jill Bialosky (2011)

The automotive conquest of a continent, with all the empowering industrialization and economic prowess needed to eroticize and politicize the automobile and the road, remains the greatest collaboration between the poet-artist and the engineer. ❋ G. Roger Denson (2011)

They eroticize their dependent longings, and these needs become valued above all others. ❋ Jill Bialosky (2011)

They piggyback America's innate patriotism and eroticize war. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We could eroticize public life rather than make it appear too chaste. ❋ Thomas Moore (2010)

Wes Craven, who directed this in 1972, does not make the abduction at all sexy many films seem to eroticize violence these days, especially towards women, but very uncomfortable. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Instead of eroticizing inequality, as Nehring suggests, there is no reason we can't eroticize equality. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I think women of our times do eroticize sexual humiliation a little differently ... perhaps you'd care to weigh in? ❋ Unknown (2009)

But I strongly suspect that was meant to eroticize her in the context the photo was meant for ❋ Renee (2009)

Girls can have cute knees, i.e. the bee's knees, but elbows are difficult to eroticize... ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

On the other hand, the tendency of the media to eroticize, trivialize and sensationalize (for example: excessive detailing of the acts of sex and violence, exaggerated use of color headlines and emotional rhetoric, invasive pictures and the like) depicts the phenomenon as a private battle of passive, unfortunate women, instead of as a structural social problem of power relationships and inequality. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The intent to eroticize - and not educate - is supported by comments made by those who originally organized the event. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Conference speakers wrestled with that toughie, with mixed results, until Guy Mark Foster, an assistant professor of African American studies at Bowdoin College who studies biracial romances, took the point: "What we need to eroticize is the pursuit of equality." ❋ Unknown (2009)

[Grampa] is always [showing] how much [gramma] loves her brachioprotic eroticism. ❋ Bok (2006)

[Joanne] loved to [ski], however at night she experienced sentimentalized eroticism with her partner which helped her [cope with] her everyday life of skiing. John instead of having a very joyful erotic experience with his partner he decided he didn’t feel to happy that day so he participated in sentimentalized eroticism that day. ❋ RileyNoctus407 (2023)

Hey Wilbur, did you see that Elk I tagged last night? I took my "[Best Shot]" and showed that "Bad Boy" who was boss, and it was a "[Full Load]". Next week when the bow hunt starts, I'm gonna "Give him the Shaft!". Just don't tell anyone that this is code for bestial eroticism...... [shhhhhhhh]. ❋ The Animal "tagger" (2008)

[Blake] experienced [colonial eroticism] while [Shaniqua] was giving him head. ❋ TommyIce (2015)