eroticism
Example Sentences
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While many in the ace community are sex-positive without necessarily wanting to have sex themselves, sometimes queerness gets reduced to an eroticism that leaves out ace identities, she said.
From Salon • Mar. 16, 2024
As Marina Warner wrote in her book Stranger Magic, “Galland transformed his sources, his fluent prose adding politesse and polish. … He expurgated the eroticism that heightens many passages in the original.”
From Slate • Apr. 10, 2019
A vast Indian literature attests to mutably gendered men and women, elite as well as folk traditions of androgyny and same-sex eroticism.
From The Guardian • Mar. 17, 2018
But Dalí's interests went beyond eroticism and the human form, straying into memory, religion and even the world of science.
From BBC • Jul. 19, 2017
The lights were on, as usual, since Serena Joy always avoided anything that would have created an aura of romance or eroticism, however slight: overhead lights, harsh despite the canopy.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
