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homoeroticism


  • n  a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex

  • There's large dollops of homoeroticism, transvestites, snakes that become women and vice versa; there's always a hefty dose of erotic ambiguity.
  • There they carry out a lengthy and teasing courtship that manages to merge the sentimentality of Lassie with the homoeroticism of Equus.
  • In 1981, it was controversial for its sex scenes and its overt and covert homoeroticism.
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  • Beth Ditto in NME.com
    After the show, Ditto told NME.COM: "It was great that there were lots of dykes in the audience tonight. It was also great to see some homoeroticism going on, as well as the 'normal people' getting their groove on."
  • John Kampfner in guardian.co.uk
    Although Campbell excised many of the most sensitive episodes, he paints a picture of men who are self-absorbed obsessives, who combine doses of narcissism, aggression, self-loathing, laddism and homoeroticism,wrote John Kampfner in the New...

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