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106 This mode of disposing of a rival was very common in Harems.
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"Harems" was Repnik's term for the houses of women, although they could come and go as they pleased and the houses were off-limits for men completely, as far as the first contact team could determine.
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"Harems-" Tariq recalled lazily, sinking down like a lithe, tawny predator into the water to survey her highly embarrassed face.
The Arabian Mistress Graham, Lynne 2001
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Harems are formed of 2 to 8 females, their young and one dominant male.
Archive 2008-11-01 Field Notes 2008
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It relates the doings of three royal generations and has all the characteristics of Eastern art: it is a phantasmagoria of Holy Places, palaces and Harems; convents, castles and caverns, here restful with gentle landscapes
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Harems are formed of 2 to 8 females, their young and one dominant male.
Sisterhood is Powerful: Lessons from Gelada & Hamadryas Baboons Field Notes 2008
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NOTE: The most popular of WIMN's multimedia presentations on women, media, politics and pop culture is my talk, "Bachelor Babes, Bridezillas and Husband-Hunting Harems: Decoding Reality TV's Twisted Fairy Tales."
Jennifer L. Pozner: Reporting on Writers' Strike Reinforces Myth of "Unscripted" Reality TV Genre 2008
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When Pekin was plundered the Harems contained a number of balls a little larger than the old musket-bullet, made of thin silver with a loose pellet of brass inside somewhat like a grelot; 406 these articles were placed by the women between the labia and an up-and-down movement on the bed gave a pleasant titillation when nothing better was to be procured.
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Harems have never been exclusively an Arab province, nor a democratic one.
America’s next Top Male: the homegrown Preacher or the foreign Negro? | ultraorange.net 2008
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Harems went out of style centuries ago, and even despots now disavow pillage and oppression as ideals.
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