sex drive

Example Sentences

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Prof Grubin said hormonal medications have "pretty serious side effects" and "somebody would have to really want to get their sex drive under control to agree to be on those drugs".

From BBC • May 22, 2025

In 1952 he was convicted of “gross indecency” over his relationship with another man, stripped of his security clearance and forced to take estrogen to neutralize his sex drive.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 31, 2023

Perhaps the women in the couples I encountered were more willing to tell their stories because they did not fit into predictable unflattering stereotypes about the male sex drive.

From New York Times • May 11, 2017

“The reality of motherhood,” she writes, “is incontinence, boredom, weight gain, saggy breasts, depression, the end of romance, lack of sleep, dumbing down, career downturn, loss of sex drive, poverty, exhaustion and lack of fulfilment.”

From The Guardian • Feb. 11, 2017

Richardson’s view of Nietzsche’s doctrine of the will to power is this: Every person is made up of a bundle of “drives” – sex drive, hunger drive, drive for knowledge, and so on.

From Salon • Oct. 1, 2012