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  • Pleasure Man is a 1928 drama/murder mystery play by Mae West. Pleasure Man began as a rework of West’s short-lived play The Drag. West made the protagonist...
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  • Majesty's pleasure (when the reigning monarch is female, at Her Majesty's pleasure), sometimes abbreviated to the King's pleasure (or the Queen's pleasure), is...
    9 KB (939 words) - 06:43, 10 November 2024
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    Hugues de Lionne (category Foreign ministers of France)
    secretary of State. He was a man of pleasure, but his natural indolence gave place to an unflagging energy when the occasion demanded it; and, in an age of great...
    4 KB (452 words) - 19:31, 5 November 2024
  • "Man of Simple Pleasures" is a song by English rock band Kasabian from the band's fourth studio album, Velociraptor! (2011). It was released as the fourth...
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    Icicle (category Bodies of ice)
    Magazine: or, Monthly Calendar of the Transactions of The Turf, The Chase, and Every Other Diversion Interesting to the Man of Pleasure, Enterprise, and Spirit...
    7 KB (857 words) - 14:05, 28 May 2024
  • Magazine; Or Monthly Calendar of the transactions of the Turf, the Chace, And every other Diversion Interesting to The Man of Pleasure and Enterprize. London...
    65 KB (1,334 words) - 10:48, 12 November 2024
  • For Your Pleasure is the second studio album by the English rock band Roxy Music, released on 23 March 1973 by Island Records. It was their last to feature...
    17 KB (1,502 words) - 14:49, 13 October 2024
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    Pleasure Island is a coastal barrier island in Southeastern North Carolina, United States, just south of the City of Wilmington. Pleasure Island is located...
    48 KB (6,318 words) - 23:25, 28 May 2024
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    Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure—popularly known as Fanny Hill—is an erotic novel by the English novelist John Cleland first published in London in 1748...
    32 KB (3,927 words) - 10:29, 30 October 2024
  • The paradox of hedonism, also called the pleasure paradox, refers to the practical difficulties encountered in the pursuit of pleasure. For the hedonist...
    9 KB (1,123 words) - 17:00, 23 June 2024
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    to simulate sexual penetration and to create sexual pleasure. Mammary intercourse involves a man kneeling or sitting on a woman's stomach or chest, placing...
    9 KB (909 words) - 18:47, 29 June 2024
  • third describes the pleasure to be found in the study of man, the sources of ridicule, the operations of the mind, in producing works of imagination, and...
    3 KB (290 words) - 20:23, 6 May 2024
  • Paul Blair, Bagel Man with its producers Dino Zisis, Nick Monson and Justin Trainor. An accompanying music video for "Guilty Pleasure", directed by Siwa...
    8 KB (693 words) - 22:58, 10 November 2024
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    Sir Percy Shelley, 3rd Baronet (category Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge)
    the turf, the chace, and every other diversion interesting to the man of pleasure and enterprize". 1845. Campbell Orr, Clarissa (1996). Wollstonecraft's...
    11 KB (1,163 words) - 21:21, 1 November 2024
  • hypothesized that the feelings of pain (or suffering) and pleasure are part of a continuum. There is strong evidence of biological connections between...
    23 KB (2,802 words) - 14:19, 22 August 2024
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    Anacharsis Cloots (category Naturalized citizens of France)
    revolutionary philosophy and spending his money as a man of pleasure. On the breaking out of the Revolution, Cloots returned in 1789 to Paris, thinking...
    11 KB (1,213 words) - 05:08, 11 November 2024
  • Guilty Pleasure is the fourth extended play (EP) by American singer JoJo Siwa, released on July 12, 2024, via Columbia Records. It is her first EP following...
    7 KB (452 words) - 05:58, 22 September 2024
  • Telos (category Philosophy of Aristotle)
    "supreme end of man's endeavour". "Pleasure and pain moreover supply the motives of desire and of avoidance, and the springs of conduct generally. This being...
    9 KB (999 words) - 04:02, 29 October 2024
  • The experience machine or pleasure machine is a thought experiment put forward by philosopher Robert Nozick in his 1974 book Anarchy, State, and Utopia...
    15 KB (1,973 words) - 03:51, 26 October 2024
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    The Convent of Pleasure is a comedic play first published by Margaret Cavendish in 1668. It tells the story of Lady Happy, a noblewoman who chooses to...
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