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- adjective Of or pertaining to
sexual behaviour as it relates tosociety .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Gallery at REDCAT presents a one-night screening of Community Action Center, a sociosexual video by A.K.
Bettina Korek: PLAN ForYourArt: February 10-16 Bettina Korek 2011
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Writing in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, the researchers conclude: Facial hair, or beardedness, is a powerful sociosexual signal, and an obvious biological marker of sexual maturity.
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There is also arguably a political element involved: you can see this as the co-option of the idea of the fujoshi to reinforce sociosexual norms, the replacement of a uniquely female culture identity with one defined only in relation to male interests.
Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » Everybody’s Fujoshi Girlfriend 2009
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Ever since females gained control of reproduction, mainly with The Pill, there has been a cascade of subtle but extensive shifts in sociosexual experience.
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So the question is, was McCain's tongue jutting more reptilian or primate? i.e. was it more predatory in nature, or sociosexual?
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I know what Rizzo means when she tells Danny to go flog his log, and I appreciate the complexities of American sociosexual dynamics at play in Danny's implied pasts with Rizzo and Cha-Cha, not to mention Sandy's costume shift from virginal white to skin-tight black with red stilettos.
Every Night Movie Becca 2007
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I know what Rizzo means when she tells Danny to go flog his log, and I appreciate the complexities of American sociosexual dynamics at play in Danny's implied pasts with Rizzo and Cha-Cha, not to mention Sandy's costume shift from virginal white to skin-tight black with red stilettos.
Archive 2007-02-01 Becca 2007
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This raises the question of how sociosexual identity is approved and affirmed by society at large.
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This raises the question of how sociosexual identity is approved and affirmed by society at large.
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However, maternal devotion, through the evolution of CARE systems, has vastly expanded within the mammalian brain, while remaining rooted in the sociosexual processes that had evolved earlier.
Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004
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