awfulize
v.— «He highlights and subsequently shatters a multitude of erroneous myths that are conceived within the particularly large cleavage between what one feels he “should” or “must” do, and what he wants to do or does. His technique? Quite simply, anti-awfulizing—which seems to be proposed as the panacea for everything from impotence to omnipotence. He instructs his reader to focus on pleasuring himself and his partner and to learn to accept himself as he is.» —“Review: Sex and the Liberated Man” by Sharon A. Terry-Haag Family Relations July, 1980. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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