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Well... yeah, the word desire is loaded like that, in English at least. I was observing that when English-speaking people see Désirée and it's a woman, I think they're *more* likely to think "oh tacky stripperish name" because of the sexual connotation of "desire," than they are to think of something along those lines, when they see a person is named Désiré and is a man. This includes myself.

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But I think you're totally right, that it's not like I made it sound - it doesn't mean people are scanning women for looseness, or over-sexualizing them. It's more complicated and less blameful than that.

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- mirfak