This means, for example, that sexless people are only likely to take a happiness hit when being sexless is an undesirable state.
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Remember, Christy claimed she and Todd had a sexless marriage.
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I really don't want to be in a sexless marriage.
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The Cycle There are varying definitions of a sexless marriage or sexless relationship: no sex in the past year, no sex in the past six months or sex 10 or fewer times a year.
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Maybe a tidy, sexless peck and then a realer, juicier smooch?
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Read This Next: Is Porn Really Turning Us Into Craven Sexless Zombies?
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The term "androgyny" tends to sound sexless, like you're trying to be nothing.
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At the same time, the portion of sexless women increased by only 8%.
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I also found their evil downside: sexless marriages, industrial-scale infidelity and loneliness.
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That used to really frustrate me: that people saw me as sexless, and juvenile.
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It's disco as something sexless, something light and frilly, something for a village fete.
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No artificial colors, no carabiners and dangling straps and sexless sea foam green fleece.
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Or, rather, not sufficiently embodied: a kind of sexless protagonist grappling with abstract demons.
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Muslim culture emphasized many great things—charity, kindness, devotion and faith—but it was sexless.
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The rationale behind sexless paid dating (namely, that payment reduces flakiness) has always rung false.
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Those who indicated no partners were categorized as having been "sexless" for that time period.
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The reason some of us forgo longer 'dos is not because we've become sexless frumps.
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Eric: I don't remember the government statistic that defines a sexless marriage, but we're close.
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There's the shrill, sexless neighbor; the overbearing Jewish mother; the Jewish American Princess; the exotic temptress.
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Sexless computers were the perfect arbiters, with algorithms increasingly replacing human decision-making, ironing out biases.
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His sexless marriage has left the otherwise mild-mannered Southern gentleman prone to fits of rage.
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I would like to shoot Mr. Cruise and a (sexless) 5-year-old into outer space.
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The pretense that Nintendo's games exist in this pure, innocent, sexless vacuum is collapsing all around us.
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Hijras figure prominently in India's Muslim history as well, serving as the sexless watchdogs of Mughal harems.
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So go three popular sexist tropes, with mothers — stereotypically sexless figures — usually falling into martyrdom or sainthood.
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The striking set is bathed in neon green, and the small cast often sports sexless white costumes.
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Before long he and Keiko are living together in a sexless relationship that's a boon for both.
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In the Western imagination, Muslim women are either sexless victims or belly dancers shaking it somewhere in Beirut.
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She's still often remembered as an avatar of the postwar, pre-counterculture pop culture mainstream: wholesome, friendly, sexless.
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The Dear Sugars inbox was flooded with responses to the two-part episode "Sexless Relationships" with Esther Perel.
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I spent so much of my life scared of being seen as a sexless lump or a fetish object.
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One other interesting thing about this study was that the researchers looked at the factors that predicted being sexless.
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The versatile sweater is cozy on Mister Rogers, cool on Kurt Cobain and chilling on Logan Roy. Paternal. Sexless.
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Plus, the service has been dogged by rumors that it's bland, sexless, and inoffensive for nearly a year now.
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Privately, his daughter-in-law Maggie—or "the Cat"—is in a sexless marriage with a closeted gay man.
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Yet certain sexual basics can still seem revolutionary on broadcast, where decidedly sexless shows like Kevin Can Wait reign supreme.
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The Celtics might win this series but they will always be Brad's sexless machine, attractive only to nerds and sentimentalists.
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Let me explain: In the new study, researchers simply looked at whether being sexless or not was associated with happiness.
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The Marschallin's life, as she ages, must end up as sexless as the convent girl's life from which it emerged.
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She's secretly harboring an addiction to prescription pain pills, and her marriage to Steve (Sean Allan Krill) is distant and sexless.
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The Left Hand of Darkness imagines a planet where inhabitants are sexless until they assume characteristics of either gender during estrus.
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I didn't want to get golden handcuffs or laugh with my girlfriends about how sexless my marriage was over boxed wine.
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Marnie is all worked up, standing at the window a pair of sexless, nude-colored Spanx while fretting about the weather.
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But Anziano, now a peer support liaison at Atlanta's SCI research and rehab-focused Shepherd Center, didn't stay sexless and stressed.
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Christy now wants out of a sexless marriage that saw her run to court to get a protection order against him.
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Until that happens, the best that they can hope for is the uneasy compromise of a socially accepted—but sexless—marriage.
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Today's incels are almost entirely men and boys who pollute their online forums with posts blaming women for their sexless lives.
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We are often portrayed as sexless and, instead of being valued for our personalities or other attributes, measured against the "ideal woman".
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Because women are the gatekeepers of sex means that they are ultimately to blame for lonely, sexless men like Minassian and Rodger.
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Kara never breaks from the stereotype of sexless, selfless mother figure, devoid of personality outside her irrational love for her pseudo daughter.
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Many readers asked why we didn't address the other side of sexless relationships: the people who want less sex than their partners.
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My mom always told me that watching TV in bed will lead to a sexless relationship, so I am cautious with these things.
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Once known as the very picture of harmless, sexless pop music, the Jonas Brothers were ubiquitous in early aughts tween and teen culture.
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We're just going to dwindle away with an impotent, sexless whisper, swirl quietly down the plughole of non-procreation with a melancholy gurgle.
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As with almost any reviled minority group in America, the fear traces back to sex — the men were either sexless or sex-crazed.
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Compare him with Hitler, the dank, sexless, humorless, milk-drinking vegetarian invert, nursing dreams, in his Viennese flophouse, of Judaeocide and world domination.
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Because feminism has removed some of the stigma on female sexuality, the theory goes, women will sleep with countless Chads, leaving incels sexless.
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At the age of 47, two years out of a sexless marriage that ended in divorce, Morgana Muse wanted to end her own life.
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It was easy to chalk up their fairly sexless courtship to Hannah's religious background and history as a pageant woman in the public eye.
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CES 2019 was a sexless wasteland of not-so-new products that feel increasingly divided from the realities of the world we live in.
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" The notion that Domino appealed to parents as a cheerfully sexless entertainer is hard to square with performances of songs like "Whole Lotta Lovin'.
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In turn, Jack Off Jill's debut Sexless Demons and Scars portrayed the band's three female members as genderless dolls with their faces superimposed on.
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The other thing to be mindful of here is that it's not fair to assume that being sexless is an unwanted thing for everyone.
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Despite what he believed to be his shortcomings, Mr. Strauss went on to chronicle his transformation from sexless nobody to singles-scene Adonis. How?
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I watched as a woman in her 50s, stuck in a loveless, sexless marriage, told Ms. Williams that she'd gotten syphilis from her boyfriend.
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Something about being an othered person who regularly educates people has made me register as somewhat sexless to people, even though the opposite is true.
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This is a mostly sexless universe—though I personally welcome Jonathan Tucker's tattooed assassin to kill me any day—save Kristen Stewart's Big Dyke Energy.
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The trend of more sexless lives was also nonexistent among black Americans, according to the paper, which did not break out information about other racial groups.
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As Ms. Moriarty peels her onion of a plot, we begin to see that Sam and Clementine's suburban marriage, all but sexless, is on the rocks.
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Because middle-aged moms are coded as sexless, Ms. McCarthy's character needs merely to nudge the sexual envelope in order for her antics to feel unruly.
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Some of those acts—James Taylor, the Eagles—are now considered, fairly or not, irrelevant to the Zeitgeist: too mellow, too affluent, too sexless, too white.
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These hunks like nougat or sections of insects are then mounted on long thin black iron rods so they look like candy or sexless bugs on stilts.
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Several years ago, on a blog originally called Government Get Girlfriends, a young Croatian incel demanded that the government pay women to date sexless men like him.
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He could have been anything between 13 and 30: an ageless sexless training bra of lust and rebellion that would appeal to gay and straight audiences alike.
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They are scared of going from being a man to being an older man — viewed as a sexless piece of furniture by the rest of the world.
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The three friends are all women who like metal, but they are neither objectified nor treated as sexless entities cast as tomboy sidekicks to a male star.
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Pretentious. As an only child terrified of conflict, I strived to skip adolescence and become the sexless gentleman bachelor of age 40 I felt destined to become.
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According to one study, approximately 15 percent of married couples are sexless: Spouses haven't had sex with each other in the past six months to one year.
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In a hatchet job on Austen and her disciples given as a speech in 1928, one critic derided her—and her fans—as sexless, malicious, and girlish.
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" He asks the Sugars: "Is it possible to be in a sexless marriage like this, where my desires are not met, without turning into a resentful husband?
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Elvis's look plus his gyrations and dancing made him nothing at all like the clean-cut, fairly sexless, nice American boy teenage girls were supposed to long for.
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A sexless, pitiful nerd with no real prospects — he's working as a janitor and living with his parents — is reliant on video games for pleasure and self-esteem.
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"Romantic friendships," passionate but supposedly sexless love affairs between members of the same sex (although mostly women), were all the rage in this era throughout the Western world.
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There's Rose (Dana Gourrier), a mammy stereotype who is defined by her endless well of empathy, and her externalized, sexless, maternal behavior toward Kara and Alice (Audrey Boustani).
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What can I wear that won't render me a sexless lump, but will maintain comfort and oxygen intake, because I definitely feel more rotund than I did yesterday?
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Women hire him for a variety of reasons: They are in sexless relationships, they crave variety, or they have a disability and are looking for a skilled partner.
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The woman likely didn't even think she spoke English, regarding her as just another sexless Asian dotting her periphery — someone who could be ignored at will, like a houseplant.
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"Little Women: LA" star Christy Gibel is telling a tall tale by claiming her marriage to Todd was sexless ... at least according to Todd, who says they definitely banged.
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Sometimes a hand was visible in the photographs, appearing to execute a culinary maneuver: It was a white hand, small and clean and sexless, with scrubbed, well-clipped nails.
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Dworkin was widely regarded as sexless and "anti-sex," feminism's image problem incarnate, hated by various denominations of liberals and—except when she was campaigning against pornography—conservatives alike.
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Frustrated at their sexless first week of marriage during a miserable honeymoon cruise, Mark tries to force himself on Marnie, who flees into the bathroom and slashes her wrists.
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A new bride (the fierce Florence Pugh), trapped in a sexless arranged marriage to an often-absent husband (Paul Hilton), begins an affair with a stable hand (Cosmo Jarvis).
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Chuck couldn't accept Wendy as a mere partner in their marriage — she was his woman, and her professional relationship with Axe felt to him like betrayal, a sexless affair.
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For a long time, we've accepted the idea that unless they hurry up and marry, single adults will stay sexless and unhappy until they die (and sooner, at that).
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After nearly a decade, it's fairly obvious the sitcom kept the pair sexless to avoid alienating possible viewers nervous about see two gay men in a loving, healthy, sexual relationship.
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The pair was clued in enough to understand that their approach to fixing sexless relationships might seem silly to some, but soon they felt that everyone had missed the point.
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But back in 1979, in a lab deep in Maine, the geneticist Standish Allen was meddling with chromosomes to create a sexless, freak oyster, which could be consumed year-round.
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Josh, whose name has been changed for privacy, is a 40-year-old man living in New Jersey who experienced a yearlong sexless period in his 19-year-long relationship.
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She admitted to being afraid of dying alone — and never being penetrated by a man again — since she is in a sexless marriage with her gay best friend Harrison (Billy Eichner).
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The cheeky image of Okachan, whom he considers a muse, does work to challenge ageist assumptions of a group of women who are in many ways culturally rendered sexless and invisible.
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The image of the sexless elder is so widespread that even medical professionals often omit older people in studies on sexuality and neglect to talk about sexual health during check ups.
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Notte, also known as the "Redhead Bedhead," is a writer, blogger, and mental health advocate whose journey started after the dissolution of what she describes as a sexless marriage at age 32.
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The study, published Tuesday in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior, found that more young people are living sexless existences than their counterparts born in the 1960s did at the same age.
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Over the last five years in particular British chart music has seen a general shift towards sexless homogeneity via Adele, Coldplay, Sam Smith and the annually updated roster of X Factor winners.
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And then, being wise, she will give that up and become resigned to a sexless life — apparently because no male not totally preoccupied with teenage hormonal excess will look in her direction.
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For most of the history of the Western world, Paoletti says, infants were considered almost a different class of human being, sexless and dressed more or less the same regardless of gender.
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Drawing on her memoirs and published research, he noted her many accomplishments, which included personally rewriting Russia's legal code, and offered a detailed account of her apparently sexless marriage to Peter III.
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I walked down North 22th recently and noticed that Everlane had opened a bricks and mortar location there, so that people can try on their sexless "elevated basics" before ordering them online.
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Jill's own sexless lonely life is a dartboard to customers with more hyperactive labidos, and she feels vulnerable, and you'll feel vulnerable, but it gets shrugged off, and another drink is poured.
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"Journey of Life," the first story in The Teeth of the Comb, follows a nameless, sexless character as they pour over maps and walk through crowds shouting for a "beloved" they never find.
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Even so, these findings suggest that there are probably more adults who aren't having sex that most of us assume and, further, that being sexless doesn't necessarily mean you're leading an unhappy life.
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"Clearing the History" likens the poet's own move west, away from his father's "sexless marriage, my parents' / slow dying together," to the fresh start you might give your web browser after viewing porn.
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Ms. Miller, a writer in her 70s best known for the Obie-winning solo play "My Left Breast," hopes to demonstrate that when women turn 60 they don't suddenly become sexless, charmless, invisible.
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One night, at a women's support group that Ms. Taddeo started, she met her first subject: Lina, a Catholic woman in a sexless marriage who had been sleeping with her high school crush.
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The two men share an arrested kiss, plus the promise of something down the road, and Thomas, by movie's end, has reverted to the patient sexless biding that Fellowes seems to prefer for him.
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But there were also about 25 percent who said they were monogamous but sexless, meaning they'd agreed to only be sexually active with one another but hadn't had any sex together in the past year.
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Tumblr plans to allow sexless nudity in art, illustration, and sculpture, but women's photorealistic nipples will only be allowed in the context of breastfeeding and health-related situations like childbirth, mastectomies, or gender confirmation surgery.
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In the series "Seated Figures" (1974-79) and "Backs" (1976-82), Ms. Abakanowicz used the plaster mold of a man to make glued-burlap forms — headless and armless and sexless — that she deployed in groups.
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Not only has a 100-minute film been extended into three hours (including commercials), but the producers have added an interracial flirtation, an explicit attempted date rape and a sexless marriage crisis for Baby's parents.
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Dear Media, Please start showing plus-size people as people deserving of love, respect, value, and healthy sex lives and NOT always bogged down by health issues, negative self-esteem, and "funny, sexless fat friend" tropes.
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Back in 2011, Lewandowski scored a hit with a short video titled "Going to the Store," in which one impossibly flexible, sexless computerized humanoid traipsed through real world footage—like a Marty Cooper video, only 3D.
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The album is the work of Japanese keyboard player Hiroshi Satoh, born in the small town of Chiran in 1947, and is a collection of innocent, strangely sexless love-songs as carefree as they are dreamy.
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She collapses back into a friendship that's basically a sexless marriage with her ex-husband, because where else can she go after blowing up her marriage to the woman Sarah left her husband for (in season two)?
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Middle-aged and older women, long portrayed as sexless and relegated to wise, maternal roles, are slowly but surely beginning to gain some pop culture representation that reflects the dynamic, complex and sexy figures that they are.
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"Just like it's not true that millennials are all promiscuous people who are on Tinder all the time, it's also not true that all millennials are sexless and just watching porn in their moms' basements," she said.
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Last time around we got Taylor Swift and Zayn's sterile "I Don't Wanna Live Forever," which was about as sexless as sandpaper, so you'd be forgiven for thinking that the depths could not be plumbed any further.
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These folks may choose to be sexless, which makes them very different from people who aren't having sex because of life circumstances, such as being recently widowed or having a spouse who has lost interest in sex.
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I told myself that if I was too chicken to do this for myself alone, then I would have to do it for all the women of size who'd been taught to see themselves as sexless and unwanted.
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Minion might ultimately help researchers fuse lots of other things together—"Wouldn't it be cool to fuse an apple and banana into a banapple," said Srihari, likely but not definitely referencing the tiny yellow sexless overall wearer's tagline.
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The comparable scene in "Suspiria," a film that's at once sexless and lambently erogenous, comes when Madame Blanc brings Susie to a climax not of pleasure but of strength: she jumps higher than she has ever jumped before.
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Then came a short period of service in the war, followed by a long holiday in Europe through the early twenties, with a loving but mostly sexless marriage of convenience to Linda Lee Thomas, of the Virginia Lees.
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Sometimes breaking up is the best solution in the case of incompatibility, but what can be done if the cause of a sexless period is more nuanced, and both partners would rather stay together and work through those issues?
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Just look at the propaganda cartoons of suffragettes depicted as ugly, sexless man haters who would cheerfully abandon a crying infant just to go to the polls — and how depressingly similar the imagery of modern sexist stereotypes can be.
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It interrogated stereotypes about sex and disability, showing the happenings at the Outsiders Club, a dating group for disabled people, and exploring how they are categorised as "monsters or children", "abused or patronised", "a fetish or sexless" and "never in between".
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Later, brand-new Trump employee Stan Bowes (played by Ryan Murphy's golden boy Evan Peters) picks up Angel, a sex worker, for a hotel room romp that actually turns into a sexless heart-to-heart about their respective hopes and dreams.
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Straight audiences will likely never have heard of Brent Corrigan, and gay audiences will die of exposure slogging through turgid, sexless dialogue waiting for a glimpse of any male body part that isn't a pair of rapidly pumping ass cheeks.
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It's not clear what all these sexless nights will do to the country's population, but it might be time America takes a page out of Spain's book and appoint a special Secretary of Sex to get us back on track again.
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Falling for a vicious bitch named Max, a gay or maybe sexless socialite, Eve/Jacaranda is subsumed into a crowd of shallow drunks, moving through scenes as gorgeous and then, later, just as goring, as the shark-infested Californian surf.
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It was a time of steady thumping beats and selling sex in a way that was both so coded and so overt that it failed to resemble any sex as it exists in the world at all, and thus became sexless.
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But it also aims for a more modern relevancy with a sexless marriage and looming empty nest for Baby's parents (Debra Messing and Bruce Greenwood) and an attempted date rape for her older sister (Sarah Hyland), followed by an interracial flirtation.
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Throughout all his hosting gigs — from Idol to taking over Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve to Live With Ryan and Kelly — Seacrest has perfected the art of being a ringmaster who can rise above the circus with a twinkling, sexless wink.
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And now that multiple sources have reported it's slated to be revealed in March, it would certainly seem like we can soon stop speculating whether the product will be a legitimate Netflix and Amazon Prime competitor or a sexless experiment in mediocrity.
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HESS It seems appropriate that our final cultural image of Hugh Hefner is a sexless one: The geriatric puttering around the house in his pajamas, surrounding himself with young women who made him seem even older, only achieving actual coitus with medical intervention.
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If The Great Gatsby is indeed definitively American, it's in a way like American Psycho, without the comedy or the gore—another who's fucking who and who wants to be fucking who tale, phrased in the most lame and sexless possible way.
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Just look at the propaganda cartoons from the early 20th century of suffragettes depicted as ugly, sexless man haters who would cheerfully abandon a crying infant just to go to the polls — and how depressingly similar the imagery of modern sexist stereotypes can be.
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So of course, why show them an accurate representation of a queer person who is complicated and has sexual desires that reflect their sexuality, when instead we can pander with a cardboard sexless object that will tell them what shoes look best via self-defacing jokes?
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While many reviewers have focused on Fleck as an "incel" hero -- his status as a sexless loner who turns to violence -- the true nature of the movie's appeal is actually broader: It's an insidious validation of the white-male resentment that helped bring President Donald Trump to power.
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There is a way in which William suggests that these sexless, genderless figures could, or should be read as women because the artist advances their stories rather than the stories of Toussaint Louverture, or Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who are the characters most often associated with the Haitian Revolution.
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EPISODE 1: USS CALISTER The first episode of Black Mirror's fourth season stars Jesse Plemons as a schlubby, sexless white guy with an inferiority complex named Robert Daley who feels constantly slighted at his job; he's the Chief Technology Officer at a company that creates highly immersive video games.
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A sexless, pitiful nerd with no real prospects — he's working as a janitor and living with his parents — is reliant on video games for pleasure and... Tomorrow, the FCC will vote on what is formally known as a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on the Commercial Availability of Navigation Devices, or what the teens are (not) calling #unlockthebox.
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I learned so much talking with dozens of everyday individuals in cities around the world, including a former porn star in Delhi who had just adopted a baby girl, a host in Tokyo who is paid to simply entertain lonely women in sexless marriages, and an actress in Accra who happened to fall in love with a married man.
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And then he googled, like, "what is erotic" (I am convinced Alex is so sexless that he doesn't even know how to keyword search porn, he just types in, like, "soft breasts" on that one time a year he gets anything near horny), and it came up with the Wikipedia page for three-way sex, and he pencilled that in instead.
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In the end, it's their business, but it's interesting to note the slight trend in "post-virginal chastity" in a "high-profile heterosexual couple to be involved in an openly sexless relationship wherein the woman is the mother of a child from a previous partner" (thanks, Bobby Finger, for that one), referring to the much-talked about situation between Ciara and Russell Wilson.
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" In the tweet, Pinter highlights a summary of Simon & Schuster's rebuttal, which included notes provided on Yiannopoulos's manuscript that: The "Why Establishment Gays Hate Me" chapter "needs a better thesis than the notion that gay people should go back in the closet" The feminist chapter needed a "stronger argument against feminism than saying that they are ugly and sexless and have cats.
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But a more sympathetic reading might say that the character of Arthur Fleck, the Joker-to-be in the movie, is a kind of Dorian Gray's picture for the entire comic-book universe: A damaged man-child with pre-sexual romantic attachments and fantasies of secret lineages and untapped greatness, whose destructive arc is far closer to what perpetual adolescence really looks like than the sexless godhood of the Marvel heroes or the eternal school days of Hogwarts.
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When I joined the newly created Health team two years ago and we began crafting our approach to sex, we knew we wanted to move from the prescriptive and aspirational (this is what you should want, what you should do, how you should be) to the descriptive and celebratory of people's identities and choices — whether they are in sexless relationships or open ones or fantasizing about kink or discovering their asexuality — and to suggest tools for communicating about their sexualities if and when they choose.
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"Some in the legal community have questioned whether people with ID have the capacity to make decisions about sexual activity and provide consent — but, as law professor Eugene Volokh points out in an op-ed in The Washington Post, "If we say that it's a crime to have sex with the mentally ill or disabled, because they lack the legal capacity to consent, that consigns them to a sexless and often therefore emotionally diminished life (or at least limits their pool of prospective sexual partners to those who are willing to commit serious felonies).
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Considering the offerings from Weber's season, which included Virginia Beach's (alleged!) marriage ruiner and "White Lives Matter" pinup Victoria Fuller; crying drunk girl Kelsey Weier, who learned the hard way that a shaken bottle of Champagne will spray you in the face with pornographic effect; and über-Christian Madison Prewett, who dared to make the Fantasy Suites a sexless slumber party for all; it seemed producers were going to have to think outside of the box a bit—and they did, choosing Crawley, a Bachelor season 265 vet and the oldest Bachelorette in the show's history.
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Madeline is the group ringleader, a perky, bossy control-freak (Witherspoon firing on her best grown-up Tracy Flick cylinders) whose taut need to micro-manage has led to a muddle of personal problems: Her teenage daughter moves out of the house to live full-time with Madeline's ex-husband and his earthy, sexpot yoga-instructor wife Bonnie Carlson (Zoe Kravitz); Madeline carries on an ongoing affair with a local theater director, and she feels trapped in her bland, sexless marriage to a kindly web developer named Ed. Celeste, played with fragile finesse by Kidman, lopes around in buttery cashmere and camel-colored sheath dresses, the most elegant gazelle in Monterey.
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He asks and I tell him our bodies falling from an open window first, unfasten the pallu the fall should be swift and vacant like the backward collapse of a moving hawk on a windscreen wait for the bare stomach to procure the fatigue of renewed air half breath half smoke next, spin on one foot the movement should be sexless bad at love as you fall fall let the system of the city swell in the base of your throat drop the petticoat walk out of its retreating puddle this should be mildly theatrical depending on the sun's humor measure the distortion of reflection between collarbones bask in the twisted heat if the blouse is hooked at the back thrust your elbows outward in imitation of a duck stepping into water unclasp blouse if the blouse is hooked at the front bring your hands to your heart as if full of gratitude wanting to love, not knowing exactly how unclasp blouse like an unstitched wound.
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