This plays on the long-established connotations of motels and illicit sexual activity, which has itself formed the basis for numerous other films, variously representing the thriller, comedy, teen film and sexploitation genres.

Contrary to claims of homosexual terminology, Sir Donald Sinden, an actor who met two of the play's original cast ( Irene Vanbrugh, Gwendolen and Allan Aynesworth, Algernon ), and Lord Alfred Douglas, wrote to The Times to dispute suggestions that " Earnest " held any sexual connotations:

As such, the term still maintains its sexual connotations.

Bound hair was felt to be symbolic of propriety: loosening one's hair was considered immodest and sexual, and sometimes was felt to have supernatural connotations.

Sticking one's tongue out at someone is considered a childish gesture of rudeness and / or defiance in many countries ; the act may also have sexual connotations, depending on the way in which it is done.

Critics perceived the show as derivative of All in the Family, then television's most-popular primetime program, although many admitted the writing was top notch and the sexual connotations gave it an extra bit of spice.

Because of the context in which it was reclaimed, queer has sociopolitical connotations, and is often preferred by those who are activists ; by those who strongly reject traditional gender identities ; by those who reject distinct sexual identities such as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and straight ; and by those who see themselves as oppressed by the heteronormativity of the larger culture.

As of 2005, the Egyptian state censorship committee has banned at least 20 music videos which featured sexual connotations due to Muslim moral viewpoints.

The verb pervert is less narrow in reference than the related nouns, and may be used with no sexual connotations.

Although shoes may appear to carry sexual connotations in mainstream culture ( for example, women's shoes are commonly sold as being " sexy ") this opinion refers to an ethnographic or cultural context, and is likely not intended to be taken literally.

A female courtier was called a courtesan, although today this name has come to be associated with female entertainers who served the upper classes ( with or without sexual connotations ).

The causes of this premature sexualization that have been cited include portrayals in the media of sex and related issues, especially in media aimed at children ; the marketing of products with sexual connotations to children, including clothing ; the lack of parental oversight and discipline ; access to adult culture via the internet ; and the lack of comprehensive school sex education programs.

He frequently released songs with sexual connotations including barnyard metaphors ( which became something of a trademark ).

However, her openness regarding her sexual endeavors with various rock stars is exactly what has enhanced the negative connotations surrounding her type.

Writes one: " We cannot say with certainty what sexual connotations these relationships conveyed.

However, many, especially in the academic world, regard the use of modern labels as problematic, owing to differences in the ways that different societies constructed sexual orientation identities and to the connotations of modern words like " queer.

Asimov's short story " Feminine Intuition " ( 1969 ) is an early example that showed gynoids as being as capable and versatile as male robots, with no sexual connotations.

Despite work by psychotherapists such as Balint sexual difficulties were crudely split into frigidity or impotence, terms which too soon acquired negative connotations in popular culture.

A man and a woman could cheek kiss each other for greeting without sexual connotations only if they are good friends or depending on the circle, the setting, and the location like in big cities.

The language, although much milder in its connotations, still carries an echo of the previous language about active and passive partners: " sexuelle Handlungen ... vornimmt oder ... an sich vornehmen läßt " (" commits sexual acts or allows them to be committed ").

This occurs mostly in cards where the original artwork has religious connotations or is of a sexual nature.

They were introduced in the late 1950s as formal fashion attire for young adolescent teenage girls as higher heels would have been considered unseemly for girls as young as 13 because of the sexual connotations and unease of walk.

As the term referred to movement forwards, backwards and from side to side, it acquired sexual connotations from early on ; the sea shanty " Johnny Bowker " ( or " Boker "), probably from the early nineteenth century, contains the lines " Oh do, my Johnny Bowker / Come rock and roll me over ".

* Physical attractiveness, in British or Irish slang, usually with sexual connotations, generally used to describe an attractive man or woman

The bronco buster is normally treated as having comic or sexual connotations rather than as a legitimately painful move, the latter particularly true during some matches between female wrestlers.

The term is used as a shortened form of the phrase 変態性欲 ( hentai seiyoku ) meaning " sexual perversion ".

While the phrase free love is often associated with promiscuity in the popular imagination, especially in reference to the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s, historically the free-love movement has not advocated multiple sexual partners or short-term sexual relationships.

The phrase " rocking and rolling " originally described the movement of a ship on the ocean, but was used by the early twentieth century, both to describe the spiritual fervor of black church rituals and as a sexual analogy.

As such, common vernacular and research often limit sexual intercourse to penile-vaginal penetration, with virginity loss being predicated on the activity, while the term sex and phrase " having sex " commonly mean any sexual activity – penetrative and non-penetrative ( intercourse and outercourse ).

* The phrase " took me to a Leafs game " was used as a euphemism for an attempted male-on-male sexual encounter.

A phrase introduced in the 2000s, " minority sexual and gender identities " (" MSGI "), used to include all letters and acronyms, has yet to find its way into common usage.

Another instance of double entendre involves responding to a seemingly innocuous sentence that could have a sexual meaning with the phrase " that's what she said ".

Given the reputation of oat grain to have invigorating properties and the obvious connection between plant seeds and human " seed ", it is not surprising that the meaning of the phrase shifted towards more or less explicitly referring to the destructive sexual liaisons of an unmarried young male, possibly resulting in unwanted children born out of wedlock.

Used in conjunction with " some ", the phrase some pussy refers to sexual intercourse itself.

The phrase four-letter word refers to a set of English-language words written with four letters which are considered profane, including common popular or slang terms for excretory functions, sexual activity and genitalia, and ( depending on the listener / reader ) sometimes also certain terms relating to Hell and / or damnation when used outside their original religious context ( s ), and / or slurs.

While the phrase " age of consent " typically does not appear in legal statutes, when used in relation to sexual activity, the age of consent is the minimum age at which a person is considered to be legally competent of consenting to sexual acts.

In English-speaking countries in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the phrase " white slavery " was used to refer to sexual enslavement of white women.

While the phrase free love is often associated with promiscuity in the popular imagination, especially in reference to the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s, historically the free-love movement has not advocated multiple sexual partners or short-term sexual relationships.

He popularised the phrase " sexual apartheid " to described the separate, different laws that long existed for gays and heterosexuals.

Ménage à trois () is a French term which originally described a domestic arrangement in which three people having sexual relations occupy the same household – the phrase literally translates as " household of three ".

: The phrase about the murderous rage of the rapist has since been withdrawn noted above, which indicates that McClary realized it posed a problem, but it has the great merit of recognizing that something extraordinary is taking place here, and McClary's metaphor of sexual violence is not a bad way to describe it.

* In the famous Monty Python sketch Nudge Nudge, a younger man slyly asks an older gentleman about sex through innuendo, reiterating the phrase " nudge nudge wink wink " after his questions in an attempt to indicate that his innocent-sounding questions are intended to be double entendres, i. e., of a sexual nature.

In modern usage, the phrase " animal magnetism " may refer to a person's sexual attractiveness or raw charisma.

# English has no concise, non-obscene verbal phrase equivalent to Unzucht treiben: in a sexual context, Unzucht treiben specifically suggests a person doing something to another.

* 1963 – The phrase " Annus Mirabilis " was also used by Philip Larkin as the title for one of his best-known poems, published in 1967 in High Windows, which celebrated the onset of more relaxed sexual mores in 1960s Britain, specifically mentioning the year 1963 as a sort of personal " annus mirabilis ".

The phrase rocking and rolling originally described the movement of a ship on the ocean, but was used by the early twentieth century, both to describe a spiritual fervor and as a sexual analogy.