Ms Hardwick makes the question of Melville's homo-eroticism deeply interesting in this connection.

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It should come as no surprise that Baker, a distinguished man of letters, should nevertheless be interested in the lees of eroticism.

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"When it comes to sexuality or eroticism, we offer no examples to imitate, no contexts of self-expression and no hands-on experience, " he wrote.

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Barney's themes include eroticism and the deconstruction of the human body.

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The bolted door is both what gives Massimo Cuori, the talented young author who is the novel's narrator, access to eroticism and what keeps him from it.

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The surprisingly sharp topics that arise in interviews (filmed mainly in black-and-white) include eroticism, poverty, mediatized violence, gender equality, gay marriage, the power of advertising, and the deformation of minds and manners by television.

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While the auto-eroticism of wannabe grunge writers like Shanghai Baby Wei Hui and her regional clones might be the fad du jour among pop authors, China's reforms go deeper than just sex, money and karaoke.

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What's worse, left out is the book's heated morning-after exchange between Rearden and Dagny that shreds the hypocritical pieties of conventional morality, replacing it with a heroic eroticism whose energy sparkles through the remainder of the story.

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