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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I wasn’t aware, until I checked, that most dictionaries and therefore, assumedly, most users, would sound this as ‘heedonist’ rather than ‘headonist’. As one of a comparatively small number of English-speakers who pronounce ‘head’ as ‘heed’ it’s perhaps a little ironic. Anyway… I stumbled across this and it reminded me of Grace Slick and her White Rabbit and I thought it might be of some interest:
There are other words out there besides slut and naughty, maybe headonist, pleasure seeker, multi-orgasmic, those just off the top of my head. ...
Of course, I’m a headonist. What else is there to live for? The rest is just killing time really… I think it all went downhill when “Let’s Dance” by David …
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The Headonist. Excess in any pleasure can become a vice. Too much of a good thing leads to temptation and avarice. Caste is no barrier, all walks of life …
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These players must really trust these side pieces for some strange reason because it seems as if their freakiest kinkiest acts of headonism …
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I guess the 8th deadly sin in my book is “headonism”. Its sort of the addiction to feeling that “rush”. Wrath is an emotion, and its an addiction in a sense …
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