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  • It is not an idle divertissement, MoDo's latest flutter of make-believe, but part of an ongoing smear campaign in which Dowd stuffs her psychopathia sexualis into politicians 'minds and mouths:

    Far from the Madding Dowd: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009

  • “Heliogabalus was a remarkable example of psychopathia sexualis; but in his age there were no Krafft-Ebings to submit his case to scientific observation,” said John Stuart Hay in 1911 in The Amazing Emperor Heliogabalus.

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  • “Heliogabalus was a remarkable example of psychopathia sexualis; but in his age there were no Krafft-Ebings to submit his case to scientific observation,” said John Stuart Hay in 1911 in The Amazing Emperor Heliogabalus.

    Go ask the physiognomists, phrenologists, pathognomists and characterologists « Jahsonic 2008

  • If the North was the crown of America's superego, crushing the spirit of the little guy with its demands and duties, the South was the oozy underbelly of id, its poet laureate of psychopathia sexualis being Tennessee Williams.

    An Unforgettable Face Wolcott, James 2007

  • If the North was the crown of America's superego, crushing the spirit of the little guy with its demands and duties, the South was the oozy underbelly of id, its poet laureate of psychopathia sexualis being Tennessee Williams.

    An Unforgettable Face Wolcott, James 2007

  • Marvellous it was to see him do this; springing from place to place, and changing his whole aspect in a flash -- now scolding shrewishly in the words of Violet Hartman, now discoursing, with the accent and manner of Prof, von Arne, upon the _psychopathia_ _sexualis_ of Genius.

    Love's Pilgrimage Upton Sinclair 1923

  • Kaan, again, in one of the earliest books on morbid sexuality, sets down mystery as one of the causes of _psychopathia sexualis_.

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899

  • Use with caution and only under appropriate circumstances. cray-cray fucked-up insanity psychopathia drug abuse by Mateo the Wise

    Urban Word of the Day 2010

  • Confidence and self-reliance are one thing, but social abrasion, anti-cohesion and aggressive disregard for others are another: psychopathia.

    newmatilda.com - Comments 2009

  • Sycamore St. "as well as" Deep Space, "a semi-comical sci-fi journey into" psychopathia infinitus. "

    ComicList Headlines 2008

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