Dominating the north gallery as the Mozia Charioteer dominates the south is a life-size limestone marble statue of the woodland diety Priapos, as powerfully hulking and oversexed as the Charioteer is suave and teasingly erotic.

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Young moviegoers today exhibit a startling indifference to sex and nudity on the screen, and few explicitly erotic films for general audiences are made anymore.

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It was only in July and December that print sales were up compared with 2011, in part due to the success of James' erotic series and the Christmas trade.

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"People are tired of the erotic, the salacious and the nasty in literature, " said the writer Noah Brooks in 1891.

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Duigan and his cinematographer, Geoff Burton, merge the luxuriant erotic tension of a tropical idyll with the clammy apprehension of gothic fiction.

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In a hypnotic sequence, shot in a cornfield as if through a yellow haze, the lovers embark on a miniature ballet of courtship, building a palpable erotic tension through an exchange of shy glances and the most chaste of touches.

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Nonetheless, Kosashvili remains a fine director of actresses, and Glascott carries the movie with her high-toned portrait of erotic frustration.

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These and other works exemplify the expressive qualities of Pre-Raphaelite art brought to their zenith in Burne-Jones's Arthurian paintings and tapestries: the dreamlike sense of dim recollections viewed behind closed eyes, of erotic yearning conveyed through powerful silence.

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Anemia sets its own terms with quite obvious biological conclusions, and I have spent these last weeks under expert medical care in Los Angeles with an almost erotic dependency on various IV drips.

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