The answer may lie in sexuality in a narcissistic reservoir of libido . . . [ that is ] desexualized Eros . This process of desexualization occurs, according to Freud, when libidinal energy passes from the id ( its origin ) into the ego which ( through a process called sublimation ) abandons the original sexual aims and utilizes the energy to fuel thought and self-interested motility ( 62 ).
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Furthermore, it doesn't desexualize its gay community to protect judgmental viewers, or turn its men into tragic AIDS casualties to evoke pity, two common prerequisites when homosexuality is portrayed on TV . Like the young people in every straight-oriented series from " Friends " to " Sex and the City, " the " Queer as Folk " folks are horny, healthy, lovable, and looking for love and sex in all the wrong places.
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Outraged by what they saw as gender discrimination, " Bara Br�st " organized a show of solidarity with their own topless swimming actions at public pools in Malm?and in Lund . " We want our breasts to be as'normal'and desexualized as men's, so that we too can pull off our shirts at football matches, " spokeswomen Astrid Hellroth and Liv Ambj�rnsson told the " Ottar " magazine published by the Swedish Association for Sexuality Education ( RFSU ).
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East Asia studies Professor Karen Shimakawa described the Engineer as " simultaneously lascivious, sexually exploitative, pan-sexual " and " desexualized . " Although the character was born of a French father and a Vietnamese mother, the libretto always emphasises his Oriental-ness . " The Engineer embodies an un-categorizable, yet spectacular perversity a condition that, the logic of the play suggests, is hereditary : It is the direct result of his racially and nationally mixed beginnings in prostitution and sexual debauchery ".
