exhibitionism

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But, if protesting is just fruitless exhibitionism, as Teddy claims, and radical acts of direct action don’t seem to work any better, what is there to do if no one will listen?

From Salon • Oct. 31, 2025

I feel I captured a genuine moment hidden inside his obvious exhibitionism.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2021

My question for you, which I also think you should ask yourself, is: What exactly do you like about the idea of this kind of exhibitionism?

From Slate • Jun. 7, 2021

But a similar intelligence courses through them, coupled with an erudition that, unfortunately, tilts into exhibitionism.

From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2020

This is a kind of psychic exhibitionism, the gratification it causes lying exactly, as in physical exhibitionism, in the emotional confusion which it is felt to arouse.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy by Ellis, Havelock