Holly Audley (top right), 23, a PA, is one of 13 temptresses appearing on Sky One's Temptation Island (10pm, Sundays). She is single and lives in London. `I've always been successful with men. I draw a lot of male attention and I'm bold about talking to them. When the TV ...
A feminitive is a noun which restricts its extension to women/girls. They have a long history of use within English (e.g. princess , temptress ), as well as more recent additions to English (e.g. manageress , hostess ). The desirability of introducing feminitives as a device of ...
Gone is the damsel in distress aura that is usually exhibited in movies. When Carrie Fisher played Princess Leia, she delivered a powerful statement - that women are brave and intelligent. Which is why Jill Berkowicz and Ann Myers consider her, or Princess Leia rather, to be the model for...
South London duo Temptress is a soul-pop force in the making who we first met last year on sultry offering “Guilty Pleasure“. A track which I haven’t been able to get off my mind to this day because of its gorgeous production and soothing electronic style.I...
This piece was originally published on the Blowfish Blog. The fascinating thing is this. There's this... thing on the Internet. A pair of columns by conservative writer/ radio host Dennis Prager, exhorting wives who aren't in the mood for sex...
“the supreme temptress of mankind”. They were seen as subservient, weak, and morally frail, and so definitely incapable of ruling a country. So, a sixteen-year-old male heir, just a year younger than Henry VIII when he became king – a claimant with Tudor blood – would have b...
The middle lion’s behavior was that of a temptress. She repeatedly drew the male’s attention by raising her tail and nuzzling him but she never let him mount her. The first lioness (on the right) sat, watched, and waited. Inexplicably, the lions stopped circling each other and laid do...
Women were once little more than slaves to their male "betters." Some women might have been respected, but their places were limited to roles as wives and mothers. They might rule a home, but were not believed intelligent enough for any other role. This chauvinistic attitude is well reflect...
But the comedy world continues to be something of a boys’ club, and Fox hates the fact that her frank talk is supposed to be career-damaging while foulmouthed male actors are just considered funny. “I should be able to talk about sex the same way any man can,” she says. “Women ...
aCirce The “chase” story in which an innocent victim is pursued by the villain, until the villain is defeated by the potential victim. Often this story takes the form of the temptress ensnaring the love-struck male; it has often been vividly described as “the spider and the fly”. It...