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Although Beecroft isn't focused on the historical precedents to the codification of young women's eroticism, she is no less underscoring the overarching context of women's homosocialization as a kind of ritual herding or the au courant "trending" of sexual and gender uniformity common to adolescent and post-adolescent women regardless of locality and time.
G. Roger Denson: Women's Art of Renewal: Carrie Mae Weems, Vanessa Beecroft, Sharon Lockhart, Catherine Opie and Lisa Yuskavage G. Roger Denson 2011
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Although Beecroft isn't focused on the historical precedents to the codification of young women's eroticism, she is no less underscoring the overarching context of women's homosocialization as a kind of ritual herding or the au courant "trending" of sexual and gender uniformity common to adolescent and post-adolescent women regardless of locality and time.
G. Roger Denson: Women's Art of Renewal: Carrie Mae Weems, Vanessa Beecroft, Sharon Lockhart, Catherine Opie and Lisa Yuskavage G. Roger Denson 2011
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I thought it was a great post, but I think you took too long to get to the purely semantic issue of "Mature" meaning "sexy times and cursing" and "Mature" meaning "post-adolescent," since that double-meaning seems to be the main stumbling block of any conversation of this sort.
Speaking Of Maturity SVGL 2009
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Is the glorious absurdity of giant mutant post-adolescent turtles with mad ninja skills and totally awesome S0Cal attitudes just too appealing to retire?
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Most played-out pop-culture entities of all time? | EW.com 2009
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When it opened on my campus, all the eternal questions of the post-adolescent mind quickly flooded through its gates, like: What sorority girl puts out the most?
Claire Gordon: The Gift of Money Claire Gordon 2011
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Do what any self-respecting post-adolescent would do, ignore them.
Beth Jones: Regression, or How Divorce Turned Me into a (Giddy) Drinking, Smoking, Post-Adolescent Beth Jones 2011
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It is a lethal cocktail of philosophy and attitude that transforms ordinary, garden-variety adolescent slackers into arrogant and pretentious post-adolescent slackers.
The Existentialist Starter Kit Con Chapman 2011
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Nick Hornby is the most prolific chronicler, and possibly even the literary discoverer, of the child-man, the post-adolescent but pre-adult male whose life is measured by indie-rock bands and fleeting relationships with women.
The Won't-Grow-Up Modern Male Kay S. Hymowitz 2011
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Do what any self-respecting post-adolescent would do, ignore them.
Beth Jones: Regression, or How Divorce Turned Me into a (Giddy) Drinking, Smoking, Post-Adolescent Beth Jones 2011
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Around the end of 1993, hearing 'Razzmatazz' on John Peel's Festive Fifty led to Pulp rapidly replacing The Cure in my post-adolescent mind as The Band - y'know, The Band, the totem, the everything, the one by which all others will be judged, so help them.
Charlie Ivens: Where now for Resurrected Left-Pop Iconoclasts Pulp? Charlie Ivens 2011
tankexmortis commented on the word post-adolescent
Someone stuck in the kind of thinking typical of adolescence, in particular someone often found in omphaloskepsis.
July 31, 2008
sakhalinskii commented on the word post-adolescent
All the fun of adolescent hormones without the excitement of adolescent curiousity.
July 31, 2008