quasi-sexual

We can't use quasi-sexual sensationalism to promote our products, while also condemning the culture around us that does exactly the same thing.

Christian Piatt: Sex Experiments Fqor Jesus? Christian Piatt 2012

We can't use quasi-sexual sensationalism to promote our products, while also condemning the culture around us that does exactly the same thing.

Christian Piatt: Sex Experiments Fqor Jesus? Christian Piatt 2012

We can't use quasi-sexual sensationalism to promote our products, while also condemning the culture around us that does exactly the same thing.

Christian Piatt: Sex Experiments Fqor Jesus? Christian Piatt 2012

We can't use quasi-sexual sensationalism to promote our products, while also condemning the culture around us that does exactly the same thing.

Christian Piatt: Sex Experiments Fqor Jesus? Christian Piatt 2012

We can't use quasi-sexual sensationalism to promote our products, while also condemning the culture around us that does exactly the same thing.

Christian Piatt: Sex Experiments Fqor Jesus? Christian Piatt 2012

We can't use quasi-sexual sensationalism to promote our products, while also condemning the culture around us that does exactly the same thing.

Christian Piatt: Sex Experiments Fqor Jesus? Christian Piatt 2012

This connection of puberty to homoeroticism makes that homoeroticism quasi-sexual: it is as the lesbian sexuality of Fanny Hill, a warm-up exercise to the real thing.

The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality 2006

Even if you limit "porn" to "porn involving actual living humans" (and ignore text, virtual, cartoon, et al) you're still comparing quasi-sexual interaction with an actual living woman (flirting) to looking at a picture of a woman you'll never meet (porn).

"Is Pornography Adultery?" Ann Althouse 2008

If you've ever visited Fyxomatosis, you know that it features highly stylized, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, and often quasi-sexual photographs of bikes, as evidenced by this Colnago crotch shot:

Contests and Con-Tests: Men Behind Curtains BikeSnobNYC 2008

Caravaggio's famous painting of Saint Thomas: it has a weird, unsettling quality to it, which I had always assumed doubting Thomas thrusting his finger in the vaginal slit in Christ's side had to do with its uncomfortable-looking quasi-sexual emphasis.

The Incredulity of Saint Thomas Adam Roberts Project 2007