titillated

When my wife's skirt blows up in an autumn breeze she gets embarrassed, I get amused and the van drivers get titillated.

Being a hetrosexual male, being titillated by women is not really a choice I have a lot of control over.

Instead of feeling appalled the NSA may be watching their intimate moments, many Americans are titillated and enthused.

To quote a comment in the linked article that is in the same vein that stood out for me: "if I want to be titillated by softcore crap, I know where to go and it ain't the app store.

But, you know, I also feel mildly titillated when checking gossips about some topic I am interested in, eg. Mr Facebook wedding pics, and could easily mistake this for "intellectual curiosity gratification", but it is not, or anything is and the filter becomes useless.

Partly because it may end up affecting their lives in the future, if any of those people go on to interact with them, but partly because they just have an inherent privacy right not to have people getting titillated at them, regardless of whether it directly affects them.

In his article, Mr. Hansen quotes Mr. Stabenow, who essentially suggests that child pornography laws are wrongly concerned that the images goad the consumers to commit future crimes: People who watch movies like Saw and Friday the 13th are being titillated by the act of torture and murder ...

Math and humans modeled the Higgs before technology “found it”IMO like with space ships this is just not a useful engineering endeavor in generalWe probably could iterate on engineering AI and nanotechnology so future people could programmatically build specific machinesBut let’s go on a whim and prematurely optimize a machine to maybe produce new insights at scale that, unlike with the Higgs, we’re still trying to find consensus mathematics to defineWe’re putting the cart before the horse this time and the fact the LHC hasn’t produced much else even with all the mathy theories has shown on paper we’re so off the mark a giant new machine would be built just to titillate a generation that is addicted to being titillatedMaybe we could just get our own imaginations back for a bit before we keep following the imaginings of yesterdayNot sure if you’ve noticed but pandemic life is making building such a thing a non-starter.