(75) One of the important characteristics of Jodhaa is her neutered
sexlessness. Although Mahamanga, the overassertive nurse of Akbar, taunts Jodhaa for her sexless, transactional style marriage, Jodhaa, as the symbol of Hinduness, finds succour in a marriage that is binding and complete, meriting full submission even if it remains unconsummated.
Beyond middle age, stereotypes hold that LGBT people "disappear" into loneliness, isolation,
sexlessness, anxiousness, and depression.
Maturing denotes participating in an existence of
sexlessness and disgrace, particularly for women.
Sexlessness operates like a literary restraint and is also a reflection of The Idiot's fidelity to autobiographical reality.
The analogy between women and angels rested on the belief in the
sexlessness, and therefore virtue, perceived as common to both.
sexlessness for a child's poem, or because sexual orientation
And yet, who wants to be forced into a life of perpetual
sexlessness? Nonetheless, I'm also leery of the idea of adopting sexy clothing so as to avoid appearing uncool.
For Fuller's contemporaries a natural expression of the emancipatedness of a woman would have been, it seems, a kind of
sexlessness, dowdiness, and neglect of appearance.
(1) These assumptions contribute to myths and misconceptions associating obesity with "ugliness,
sexlessness, undesirability and moral failings such as lack of self-control, social irresponsibility, ineptitude and laziness across cultures and borders" and increase weight bias in our society (ref.21, p.
She [Moore] refuses to equate celibacy with
sexlessness. Henry James provides her best demonstration that bachelorhood need not preclude passion: "Things for Henry James glow, flush, glimmer, vibrate, shine, hum, bristle, reverberate." Someone never known to be in love can nevertheless know "Joy, bliss, ecstasies, intoxication, a sense of trembling in every limb, a shattering first glimpse." (235) Interestingly, although several passages from this essay appear in the biography, this one does not.