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  2. 'Vulva' versus 'vagina': What should we be teaching kids? - AOL

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    Generally speaking, Rubin says her best advice is to “use real words and real body parts, the same way you would for the different parts of the face.” Don’t forget to talk about consent and ...

  3. Irene Adler - Wikipedia

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    The luminous skin of her ‘battledress’, of the naked female body-as-weapon, is supplanted by a crestfallen figure in a hijab. In a stereotypically Victorian fashion that does not feature in Doyle's text, Adler's use of her own body as a means of power turns her into a fallen woman who has to be punished, banished to the former colonial ...

  4. Femininity - Wikipedia

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    Body alteration is the deliberate altering of the human body for aesthetic or non-medical purpose. [55] One such purpose has been to induce perceived feminine characteristics in women. For centuries in Imperial China , smaller feet were considered to be a more aristocratic characteristic in women.

  5. Tarpeia - Wikipedia

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    Reverse of a denarius (89 BCE) depicting the torture of Tarpeia Reverse of a denarius (19-18 BCE) of Augustus showing Tarpeia crushed by the soldiers' shields. In Roman legend, Tarpeia (/ t ɑːr ˈ p iː ə /; mid-8th century BCE), daughter of the Roman commander Spurius Tarpeius, was a Vestal Virgin who betrayed the city of Rome to the Sabines at the time of their women's abduction for what ...

  6. Crossword - Wikipedia

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    An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one ...

  7. Female body shape - Wikipedia

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    [43]: 5 There is essentially no emphasis given to any particular body part, not the breasts, buttocks, or belly. Moving forward there is more evidence that fashion somewhat dictated what people believed were the proper female body proportions. This is the case because the body is primarily seen through clothing, which always changes the way the ...

  8. Femme fatale - Wikipedia

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    Femmes fatales were standard fare in hardboiled crime stories in 1930s pulp fiction.. A femme fatale (/ ˌ f ɛ m f ə ˈ t æ l,-ˈ t ɑː l / FEM fə-TA(H)L, French: [fam fatal]; lit. ' fatal woman '), sometimes called a maneater, [1] Mata Hari, or vamp, is a stock character of a mysterious, beautiful, and seductive woman whose charms ensnare her lovers, often leading them into compromising ...

  9. Sex differences in human physiology - Wikipedia

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    This means the brain-to-body mass ratio is, on average, approximately the same for both sexes. [83] [84] Comparing a male and a female of the same body size, an average difference of 100 grams in brain-mass is present, the male having the bigger and heavier brain. This difference of 100 grams applies over the whole range of human sizes.