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| 11 | 1248 | But many are more View more quotes about subtle">subtle, tiny, almost indiscernible movements, which yet, in their total effect, brand a female body as being incredibly sensuous, things like a way of glancing, a way of holding the head, subtle things like the almost invisible, sudden flexion of the diaphragm, the tiny fear movement of the shoulders, which signals that the girl, as she is, is helpless quarry. |
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| 11 | 1245 | We had had trained into our bodies mysteries of movements of which even we, for the most part, were no longer aware, subtle signals of appetite, of passion and of obedience to a masculine touch, movements which excited the fierce jealousy, the hatred, of free women, particularly ignorant free women, who feared, and perhaps rightly, that their men might leave them for the purchase or capture of such a prize. |
| 11 | 1246 | Most slave girls, incidentally, fear free women greatly. |
| 11 | 1247 | Some of these movements are, in standing, as obvious as the turning of a hip; in reclining, as obvious as the partial extension of a leg, the pointing of toes. |
| 11 | 1248 | But many are more subtle, tiny, almost indiscernible movements, which yet, in their total effect, brand a female body as being incredibly sensuous, things like a way of glancing, a way of holding the head, subtle things like the almost invisible, sudden flexion of the diaphragm, the tiny fear movement of the shoulders, which signals that the girl, as she is, is helpless quarry. |
| 11 | 1249 | Incidentally, we also learned our own responsiveness to certain signals. |
| 11 | 1250 | For example, we could become curious, uneasy, simply by turning an open palm, perhaps unnoticeably, toward a male. |
| 11 | 1251 | It made us feel vulnerable. |