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  2. Carnal knowledge - Wikipedia

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    The term derives from carnal, meaning "of the flesh", and the Biblical usage of the verb know/knew, a euphemism for sexual conduct.. One examples of this usage is in the first part of the Bible, the Book of Genesis, which describes how Adam and Eve conceived their first child:

  3. Carnal Knowledge (film) - Wikipedia

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    Rotten Tomatoes retrospectively gives the film a score of 88% based on reviews from 32 critics, with an average rating of 7.70/10. The site's critics consensus reads: "Although it comes lopsidedly from the male gaze, Carnal Knowledge is a sexually frank and ferociously well-acted battle between the sexes."

  4. The Prioress's Tale - Wikipedia

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    The tale was intimately bound up with attempts to "aggrandise the spiritual prestige and temporal revenues" of the local cathedral. [8] Thus the vivid "carnality" of the miraculous tale of martyrdom could be deployed as easily to enhance the worldly prominence of the Church as to refute heretical doctrine by reaffirming the spiritual legitimacy ...

  5. Carnography - Wikipedia

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    Carnography (also carno [1]) refers to excessive or extended scenes of carnage, violence, and gore in media such as film, literature, and images. [2] [3] The term carnography—a portmanteau of the words carnage and pornography [3] —was used as early as 1972 in Time magazine's review of David Morrell's book First Blood, upon which the Rambo film series is based. [4]

  6. Cardinality - Wikipedia

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    In the above section, "cardinality" of a set was defined functionally. In other words, it was not defined as a specific object itself. However, such an object can be defined as follows. The relation of having the same cardinality is called equinumerosity, and this is an equivalence relation on the class of all sets.

  7. Sex and sexuality in speculative fiction - Wikipedia

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    Sexual themes are frequently used in science fiction or related genres.Such elements may include depictions of realistic sexual interactions in a science fictional setting, a protagonist with an alternative sexuality, a sexual encounter between a human and a fictional extraterrestrial, or exploration of the varieties of sexual experience that deviate from the conventional.

  8. Babalon - Wikipedia

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    Babalon / ˈ b æ b æ l ən / [citation needed] (also known as the Scarlet Woman, Great Mother or Mother of Abominations) is a goddess found in the occult system of Thelema, which was established in 1904 with the writing of The Book of the Law by English author and occultist Aleister Crowley.

  9. Playboy's Book of Forbidden Words - Wikipedia

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    Playboy's Book of Forbidden Words was first published in 1972 by Playboy Press and distributed by Simon & Schuster. Written by Robert Anton Wilson, it is sub-titled A liberated dictionary of improper English, containing over 700 uninhibited definitions of erotic and scatological terms. The paperback edition's cover featured Mercy Rooney. It is ...