(n.) The Muse who presided over lyric and amatory poetry.
Example Sentences:
(1) In complete contrast, allozyme loci in these butterflies are strongly heterozygous and show only frequency differences (never amounting to homozygosity of alternative alleles) between races; the amount of allozyme divergence is the same between races of H. erato and H. sara, although in color pattern the first forms marked races and the other does not.
(2) Absence of recombination between linked markers in female Heliconius is suggested by coupling backcross broods in H. erato, by a repulsion F2 in H. melpomene, and by other crosses with this species.
(3) Catherine Ashton, the EU's high representative for foreign and security policy, a particularly voluble critic of Israel's expansion into the West Bank, which is illegal under international law, has taken the unusual step of delegating representation at Tuesday's meeting to Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis, the Cypriot foreign minister.
(4) Genetic crosses between races of Heliconius erato that differ in the odor of female abdominal glands show that the odor originates in the male and is transferred to the female at mating.
(5) Compared with erato, sample sizes in melpomene are lower and the genetics of its color patterns are less well understood.
(6) In the hybrid zone in Heliconius erato, clines at three major color pattern loci were between 8.5 and 10.2 km wide, and the pairwise gametic correlations peaked at R approximately 0.35.
(7) In erato, the shapes of the clines agreed with that expected on the basis of dominance.
Eroticism
Definition:
(n.) Erotic quality.
Example Sentences:
(1) The intent of this paper is to provide concerned professionals dealing with various aspects of human sexuality with information relevant to anal eroticism.
(2) Penetration will only occur once you have established a sense of levity, safety and trust between the both of you, plus a high level of non-penetrative eroticism.
(3) It's extremely common to have fantasies that involve coercive sex, group sex, or some other kind of "forbidden" eroticism; in fact, many people have fantasies of which they're utterly ashamed.
(4) It doesn’t take an art critic to notice the eroticism of an artwork, but perhaps it takes more than a machine to understand precisely what constitutes “adult content”.
(5) So in Northanger Abbey, Catherine is introduced to "a whole new world of eroticism ... where sex knows no boundaries" by Henry.
(6) Fourier famously predicted work could become play – its qualities could absorb the qualities of aimlessness, humour, even eroticism.
(7) The entry on Belmondo in Marlene Dietrich's A-B-C "New blood, new looks, new vitality, new fluidity, new eroticism, new normality for that malady-ridden strain of today's neurotic actors."
(8) The Greeks and Romans associated eroticism and (vague) constancy with extramarital desire, rather than any conjugal paradigm.
(9) In the discussion of Disney and his work (based, in part on writings about him) it is suggested that he exhibited traits associated with anal eroticism, which raises an interesting question about the popularity of his work with the American public.
(10) Until recently she was best known for her international best-seller Wetlands, a frank debut novel about the sex life of an 18-year-old that has been described as everything from literary eroticism to undiluted pornography.
(11) Being sexually adventurous often leads to surprising eroticism.
(12) During 6 to 10 years of corticosteroid therapy there occurred substantial reduction of hypertrichosis, disappearance of temporal recession, and decrease in eroticism.
(13) "Eroticism," she once said, "is very important in attracting people's souls."
(14) The recent liberalization of attitudes towards sexuality has brought with it the desire by some individuals to seek alternate methods of sexual stimulation and gratification, among them an exploration of anal eroticism.
(15) Or he may need to arouse himself with an anger response in order to summon sexual energy (the best eroticism is accompanied by a little aggression).
(16) The paper compares selected examples of age-structured homosexuality to understand same-sex eroticism as a "predictable" outcome of particular combinations of age, gender, and kinship.
(17) The following emotions were studied: fear-anxiety, anger-aggression, joy-laughter, love-eroticism, love-tenderness, and sadness-tears.
(18) His complex and beautiful works align the contours of the car with the welcoming eroticism of the female body, ideas that were (and still are) such a feature of product-promotion techniques.
(19) A case of transmission of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) associated retrovirus (ARV) by brachioproctic eroticism is described.
(20) The attitudes of 52 counselors and trainees toward homosexuality showed respondents were less likely to accept homosexual persons in eroticized contexts, more likely in noneroticized contexts, with mixed acceptance for homosexuals in sensitive professional positions.