erotic

Example Sentences

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Whether or not one accepts this hierarchy of scandals, Shakespeare’s poetry evinces a pleasure in and comfort with male same-sex erotics that exceeds that of much of his later audience.

From Washington Post • Sep. 4, 2015

She encountered girls who talked appallingly about breeding dogs and babies, about Freudian erotics, and new schools of art, Futurism, Vorticism.

From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert

Nearly all of the Minnesingers composed what we must call religious erotics, in no way different, save for names of Christ and the Virgin, from their most impassioned secular ones.

From Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion by Lee, Vernon

Socrates described his philosophy as the science of erotics.

From A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion by Symonds, John Addington