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111sexual attitudes — The erotic has always held much ambivalence for Chinese writers and commoners alike. Sexuality was regarded as a natural, pleasurable act, while also deemed a dangerous and potentially contaminating activity. From a naturalistic point of view,… …
112Anhedonia — Loss of the capacity to experience pleasure. The inability to gain pleasure from normally pleasurable experiences. Anhedonia is a core clinical feature of depression, schizophrenia, and some other mental illnesses. An anhedonic mother finds no… …
113phase — 1. A stage in the course of change or development. 2. A homogeneous, physically distinct, and separable portion of a heterogeneous system; e.g., oil, gum, and water are three phases of an emulsion. 3. The time relat …
114As easy as pie — is a popular colloquial idiom which is used to describe a task or experience as pleasurable and simple.[1][2] The idiom does not refer to the making of a pie, but rather to the act of consuming a pie ( as easy as eating a pie ) which is usually a …
115Desertion (novel) — Desertion is a 2005 novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah. Contents 1 Plot 2 Critical reception 3 Themes 4 Readings …
116Minori (company) — Minori (みのり?) is a Japanese visual novel company (previously the software division of CoMixWave until April 2007) which created the games Bittersweet Fools, Wind: A Breath of Heart, Haru no Ashioto and Angel Type. Their latest game as of 2009 is… …
117Negative-state relief model — The negative state relief model states that human beings have an innate drive to reduce negative moods. They can be reduced by engaging in any mood elevating behavior, including helping behavior, as it is paired with positive value such as smiles …
118Jack Thompson (activist) — Jack Thompson Thompson at a debate at California University of Pennsylvania …
119pleasure — A surprisingly complex concept, although central to any account of human and animal motivation. Perhaps the simplest theory of pleasure treats it as being on the same dimension as pain: a bodily sensation, but of a positive kind, where pain is of …
120pornography — The definition is controversial: roughly an obscene representation or display, especially of human sexuality, produced to provide an occasion for fantasy. The condition that the representation should be obscene distinguishes pornography in… …
