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  • Pleasing herself despite a pronounced disdain for her pleasure's ostensible object, she performs a very pure kind of narcissism.

    George Heymont: The Myth of the Deadly Diva George Heymont 2012

  • Pleasing herself despite a pronounced disdain for her pleasure's ostensible object, she performs a very pure kind of narcissism.

    George Heymont: The Myth of the Deadly Diva George Heymont 2012

  • Pleasing herself despite a pronounced disdain for her pleasure's ostensible object, she performs a very pure kind of narcissism.

    George Heymont: The Myth of the Deadly Diva George Heymont 2012

  • "The pleasure's mutual, Captain Blair," said Shirer, as he shook the Englishman's hand.

    DBTL 51E: City of Shadows - Interruption Johnny Pez 2010

  • But the TOB wisely teaches that sex for pleasure's sake reduces sex to a trivial recreation and deprives it of its power, its beauty and its seriousness.

    Evangelicals and the Contraceptive Mentality Suzanne 2010

  • Pain had no sting, and pleasure's wreath no flower.

    Laura Vanderkam: The Art of Productivity Laura Vanderkam 2010

  • Online fiction may come in every stripe imaginable, but it's such a pain to wade through the piles of junk to find the gems that I have a hard time actually wanting to do it for pleasure's sake.

    Short Fiction: Why Aren't You Buying It? 2007

  • For straight men, sexual pleasure's centered on the penis, with some help from tiny nipples, lips and such.

    McCain is a good man Steven Barnes 2009

  • For straight men, sexual pleasure's centered on the penis, with some help from tiny nipples, lips and such.

    McCain is a good man Steven Barnes 2009

  • I tell him that a concept I have is that sex would be the best human action if it didn't end in orgasm, that sex being directed at orgasm is the most unfair part of being human maybe, and that if he wants we can lie with him inside me for awhile but we can't have sex for pleasure's sake.

    James 2009

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